[chromeextdev]

Thanks. This is great advice. If I want to incorporate, do you think I should hire an CPA to do that and the filing later? Also, is there a particular type of CPAs I should search for (say, on Yelp), like "small IT business CPA", or is this simple enough that any CPA should be able to cover?

I look forward to reading your article. Would be great if you leave a link here when it's available.

[patio11]

If you want to speak to an accountant to sanity check your plans, literally any CPA should be able to help you do it, particularly those advertising a specialty in small businesses. I would caution you that this is far from the hardest question you'll have for your CPA over the next N years and that many people who are competent to tell you what an LLC is are not competent at giving meaningful advice about e.g. what sales tax filings are required for a SaaS business.

I would not recommend having an accountant actually create your company for you, simply from a cost perspective. Making an LLC is as easy as buying a book on Amazon. You wouldn't hire your accountant to buy you a book on accounting from Amazon, because he'd charge you $200 extra to do so -- you'd just get the name of the book and then buy it yourself. Cookie-cutter solo-founder LLCs are roughly as simple as books or sweaters.

I don't make a habit of putting my own work on HN, but I express modestly high confidence that Atlas' guides on these and related subjects will end up here at some point.

[chromeextdev]

Thanks a lot, Patrick. This is very helpful to me.