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@tolin.ski loved the @syntax.fm video about your Electron app. Are you using the @sentry/electron SDK? Also, what do you know about international digital sales taxes and how horrible it makes selling apps these days?

Not directed at me but re: last point, you want to learn more about Merchants of Record (MoR) providers like Paddle. They take care of sales taxes for SaaS and digital products. Highly recommend instead of plain Stripe (which is not an MoR).

Stripe will happily take your payments without telling you that you've likely exceeded sales tax thresholds simply by having a customer in Germany pay you. Caveat emptor, indeed.

(and Stripe Tax is basically a joke. It's extra PLUS you still have to set up tax merchant accounts in multiple countries.) An MoR takes care of all that for you.

Yeah it sucks. I want to be in compliance but they make it really hard for small indie developers. Don't even talk to me about the new age assurance laws. 😭

The worst part is that there seems to be zero enforcement from what I've seen. If you're outside the EU or other countries with DST you can likely ignore it and earn more than those who are in compliance. Total policy failure really!