Walking you through every step Hi folks, welcome to the very late April edition of “A Month of Blips”! This edition: Some products I have built with GPT Live video… Read More »April 2023: Creating Apps with GPT

If you have access to a deal, it’s probably a bad one What is Crowdfunding and where did it come from? Crowdfunding allows companies that are not yet publicly traded… Read More »The Crowdfunding Sucker Problem

Comments welcome The Irish government has opened a comment period – running until April 5th – on Irish personal taxes. Here is a draft of my submission. Any comments are… Read More »Irish Government Tax Consultation: March 2023

Thoughts on improving regulations The eMoney game involves: a) getting customers to add funds to an eMoney app, -in order to- b) earn interest on the customer’s money. The game… Read More »The eMoney Game: February 2023

A Tiny Bootcamp As an engineer building a startup, it’s hard to spend time focused on sales and marketing. I want to build stuff instead. While in the entrepreneurship center… Read More »🥊 Scrappy Startup Sales: February 2023

Reflections on the late 2022 European Court Ruling Summary: In November 2022, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled member states cannot be required to have a public register of… Read More »Privacy vs Transparency in Business Ownership

AI Coding, Golden Turkey agus an Teanga Chripteagrafach Coding is mostly done with AI I was talking with two coders there on Thursday evening. They both use AI to write… Read More »Two Blips and a Blipín

Why do we penalise Irish people for using index funds? Here’s a copy of an email I’ve sent to my local TDs in Ireland: ~~~ Hello , I’m Ronan –… Read More »Letter to Irish TDs on the tax treatment of index funds

Small Business, Credit Card Costs and Tax Avoidance The Background Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni proposed rescinding a fine on retailers who refuse to accept electronic payments for less than… Read More »Italian Cashgate