I used to lead Counter Strike 1.6 teams in my teens- I often reflect on how that was some of my early leadership "training".

Good memories of motivating my teams of 15/16/17 year olds to get online at 6/7am in the morning to work on our skills before school, and for epic days during the summer.

Ah, simpler times.

I used to GM some pen and paper RPGs with a team of adorable and mischevious players. It taught me to be paranoid about every little flaw or loophole in rules. "Can my 'create water' spell work to flood this bad guy's heart?"

I think to prevent tax evasion, tax law should be written by people with 5+ years of GMing experience...

> tax law should be written by people with 5+ years of GMing experience...

They do, except they're employed by the people who want to put the loopholes in.

The trick to avoiding loopholes is not to find and plug them one by one, but to ruthlessly simplify.

Then you'll need to finish 100 quests and slain a dragon to report your taxes each year? :)

He said pen and paper RPGs, not computer ones. :-)

Who said you can’t do that with pen and paper?

Same here. Teaches you a lot about toxicity and how being constantly positive can make a difference short term as well as long term.

It took me so long in life to realize that. With myself and with others. Aiming to be 'well balanced' is just not enough.

This is epic.

I really hope you are able to get events down from their API soon as well.

We use Recurly, Stripe and FreeAgent. Recurly creates the invoices required for customers (so thats nice and simple).

Our book keeper creates an invoice for each day within FreeAgent, we then attribute the amount that came from Stripe in to it.

We then download the CSV data from Recurly and work out how much VAT should be attributed to the specific invoice.

We also work out currency gains/losses as well here.

FreeAgent lets you add a VAT item to the invoice.

It's a bit of a pain but gives our customers what they need, and it gives us what we need from an accounting perspective.

Recurly stores all of the transactional data if we ever need to go back and audit it for any reason.

Hope this helps!

Have a look at GatherContent.com as well :)

http://www.gathercontent.com

Need to be able to handle UK only VAT as well.

Recurly is a pain in the ass as it forces you to charge VAT on all EU customers when under UK law we do not need to.

RARGH!

Only if you and your customer are VAT registered https://www.gov.uk/invoicing-and-taking-payment-from-custome...

VAT is a pain in the ass in general :/

I'm looking for someone to take over product design from me at GatherContent:

http://www.authenticjobs.com/jobs/20722/ui-designer

Remote, family friends, 35hrs w/k, funded, growing 10% mom.

Time Hacking? Really?

FREEAGENT!

Sponsored Pics.

One email per week sent is an ad (on a random day). Build up as much data about each user as you can which you can then offer up to advertisers. E.g. Email all women who like jeans with a sponsored pic.

$lowXX to remove ads.

Also offer backup service for small additional fee.

Partner with a service like blurb to send Instagram photo books to users of their old pics. Perhaps suggest the images that should be used in a book?

Back to beer.

Ah App.Net- I forgot about that.