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An Optimized Setup For Bloodletting
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7 min read
Important disclaimer as always: For entertainment purposes only, and if you consider doing this, only do so if you’re a medical professional. I recently was investigating bloodletting – you know, the historic “therapy” in ancient medicine which was supposedly the standard therapy for pretty much any ailment due to the lack of other options. I…
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Dokku: Set Up Postgres Backups To Hetzner S3
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4 min read
If you’re using dokku for your deployments (it’s awesome) and were wondering how to set up automatic backups of your dokku postgres instances to Hetzner S3, here’s how you do it. TLDR Example In this example, we’re assuming that we’ve created out Hetzner S3 bucket for dokku backups in the Falkenstein region, fsn-1. Test the…
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So you want to build a business. You have two options: (This, by the way, assumes we’re already way too deep in the “startup bubble”, where the only two viable business models appear to be based on consulting or a product. We blissfully ignore the wider economic reality that there are lots of other viable…
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Bangkok Condo Reviews
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11 min read
Flat-hunting in Bangkok is interesting. In contrast to Berlin, Bangkok has what real estate dudes call a “renter’s market”: There’s an oversupply of condos, so people looking to rent one are in a very favorable position. Two stories first! First Story: Berlin Housing Market I own a flat in Berlin which has a notoriously broken…
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No Co-Founder Needed: Being a Solo Founder
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10 min read
You don’t need a co-founder. Just be a solo founder. It’s easy, and it’s great. But, as always, it depends. On what?It depends on you. My point is that the whole discussion of solo founding vs. co-founding is not a very rational one – sure, people online are shouting at each other that one thing…
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This article is a bit of the missing piece on on the differences between a holding-GmbH in Germany versus a “normal” GmbH. I briefly mentioned the holding setup in how to found a GmbH company in Germany here, and I summarized all my “hacks” for founding and running German companies here. So now it’s time…
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Magic Benefits of ETF Investing You Didn’t Know Of
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13 min read
I’ve been wanting to write an article on ETF investing for quite a while. That’s because multiple friends have been asking me for investment advice. This, by itself, is highly questionable of course, because these friends were under the assumption that I was supposedly a smart, structured person and therefore that my personal investment decisions…
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Goodbye, DiGAs: The DiGA Bubble Is Bursting
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7 min read
DiGAs are reimbursable Health apps in Germany. Here’s a quick primer on how they work. Let’s say you show up at your doctor’s office, said doctor can say “hey, you’re suffering from depression and I only have 5 minutes to talk to you because public health insurance only pays me a tiny amount for this…
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Notes and Hacks on Germany’s Exit Tax
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18 min read
Disclaimer as always: I’m not a tax advisor, and this is not tax advice. I’m simply sharing my notes with you so that you’ll hopefully save some time when researching your own exit tax situation in Germany (likely with a tax advisor). Cool! With that out of the way, let’s get right into it. What…
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Running a Profitable SaaS Company Is Brutal, Brutal Pain
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16 min read
You might think that running a SaaS business is great. And you’d not be alone! Every software developer, Indiehacker and would-be startup founder is thinking like “oh man, working at <boring day job> sucks, but if I just had a SaaS, I could just lean back and enjoy that sweet, recurring revenue”. The reality, however,…