[akerl_]

I flagged your thread because it's not a productive topic for HN, it's you overreacting because you created a legal entity without doing your due diligence and then trying to get Stripe to reply to you faster by shaming them publicly.

As fun as it is to blame Stripe for bad UX, at the end of the day Stripe helped you make an agreement with the US Government: if you didn't read that agreement, that's on you.

And as general feedback: very few financial situations are improved by full blown panic. The government's penalties tend not to have per-minute granularity, so in almost every case it's worth taking a step back and gathering facts w/o the panic.

[mindcrime]

Still, this is a valuable thread for HN in some sense. I'm sure there are at least a handful of other people who would have made a similar mistake, and will be a little more cognizant of these issues after reading this. Hell, I might even be one of them, as I've been chewing on re-incorporating our business as a Delaware C-Corp. I think I would have read all the "fine print" so to speak anyway, but now you can bet I'll be even a touch more cautious and careful than before.

It may not be a thread that's useful to everyone, but it's not outright off-topic or useless when you consider how many startup founders or prospective founders visit HN.

[browsercoin]

also my behavior yesterday didn't really help much, but this is what full blown panic can do to people, I shudder the thought of someone who never saw this thread, go through the same shit.

im glad that there are people who find this thread helpful, please excuse my pissing on the American dream, saw Democrats won the house so my faith in America has been restored.