02thoeva's comments

02thoeva | 3 years ago | on: Stripe increases fees for EU and UK-based businesses in April

Thanks, we'll speak with Barclays then :)

02thoeva | 3 years ago | on: Stripe increases fees for EU and UK-based businesses in April

We use Wise but their USD accounts are US-domiciled. So we have 3 options: - Continue paying out to Wise and incur an additional 1% fee (~$30k per year) - Use Stripe for currency conversion which is additional 2% fee (~$60k per year - Find a UK-domiciled USD account to pay out to. Might be possible - no idea really. Need to look into it.

02thoeva | 3 years ago | on: Stripe increases fees for EU and UK-based businesses in April

Same here. This is a massive dent in any of our remaining profit. Realistically we'll need to look to leave

02thoeva | 3 years ago | on: Stripe increases fees for EU and UK-based businesses in April

"UK businesses who are paying out in USD to a US-domiciled bank account will now incur a 1% fee, with a minimum fee of US$2.50."

So if we get paid out a USD payment, into a USD account. We get charged just because we're registered in the UK? That's a huge impact on our business.

02thoeva | 3 years ago | on: AWS us-east-2 outage

Thanks for sharing. We've just spent the last hour debugging our website, thinking we had issues. This explains it.

02thoeva | 4 years ago | on: What's in email tracking links and pixels?

Convertkit is a front-end for Sendgrid, so possibly they use the same format as them?

02thoeva | 4 years ago | on: Booking.com fined €475k for reporting data breach too late

I'd expect that the name and address will still be stored in their payment processor.

Then the invoice itself (containing your name/address/payment method) will need to be stored by the company in some form for accounting regulations.

02thoeva | 5 years ago | on: UK to depart from GDPR

The very article we've commented under makes this point, but if you want to see the specific agreement: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_...

02thoeva | 5 years ago | on: UK to depart from GDPR

There is a draft adequacy agreement between the two which should be signed before the end of June when the transition period ends: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_...

02thoeva | 5 years ago | on: UK to depart from GDPR

Not quite, the EU and UK have a draft adequacy agreement in place. Should be signed by the time the transition period ends.

02thoeva | 5 years ago | on: Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel

Yep, although the phone call requirement is a new one and was introduced by a sneaky update to their terms: https://twitter.com/rtwlz/status/1341581686216245248

02thoeva | 5 years ago | on: Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel

Run a business here, oh and we use Baremetrics too. To be 100% clear we never want to call you or Brian.

Listen to your customers here.

If there are people that want a call, offer the option, but please don't force it. And don't do sneaky updates to your terms which make this a requirement.

02thoeva | 5 years ago | on: Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel

Long time customer of Baremetrics here. And this shady practice is really really offputting, to the extent where we are now looking into cancelling (without a phone call, of course)

02thoeva | 5 years ago | on: I sold Baremetrics

Congratulations on the sale and thanks for sharing. Very interesting for someone who's probably a few years behind you.

02thoeva | 6 years ago | on: Citymapper

The app certainly does take into account transfer times between lines. If you also require accessible transport it'll further take into account the transfer times by measuring the amount of lifts you need to take.

02thoeva | 6 years ago | on: USS Pueblo

Visited this last year, remarkably good condition. The Koreans were very keen to point out the size of the armoury and guns on board the ship.

02thoeva | 6 years ago | on: Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, even out of warranty

Dropped mine in earlier this week at a London Store. Currently a 7-10 day turnaround for repairs.

02thoeva | 7 years ago | on: Ofo Beats a Retreat From the Dockless Bikesharing Battle

The only people I see using these in the UK are drug dealers, who have smacked off the lock with a brick.

02thoeva | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Revenue Forecasting for SaaS Apps

I believe ChartMogul are adding revenue forecasting to their product shortly.

02thoeva | 8 years ago | on: Former Uber employees have gone into debt to exercise options they can’t sell

Point being, lots of companies offer options on the 4 year vest, 1 year cliff in order to keep great employees. If the end result is that mediocre employees end up hanging around, not motivated, then it works for neither the employee, nor the business.