The price increases for dedicated servers are reflected in the higher setup costs. For example, I believe AX102 setup was EUR 39.00 now EUR 269.00.

Price would be a bit more bearable if their reserved instance discounts were more generous

Agreed. If the CFC (controlled foreign corporation) rules still apply for founders in EU-member states, it will fail.

I’m hoping they can be creative and find a way to distribute revenues to member states in a way that works for everyone.

For employment taxes, one way could be to tax EU-inc employees as if self-employed in their personal tax domicile.

> Of all the challenges you face as a startup, the legal entity you choose is possibly the least consequential.

The amount of founders who choose to domicile their company in Estonia because the ticket rates and ease look attractive and who don't understand that this will still need to be administered in their local market as a CFC (controlled foreign corporation) would probably say differently.

> Just choose a jurisdiction where investors understand how the legals work (Delaware C-corp, UK Ltd is OK too) and there's a finite administrative burden and/or commoditized tooling in place to help you handle it.

That's exactly what EU-INC is trying to provide/solve afaict.

Totally agree. If I don’t understand the code as if I’d written it myself, then I haven’t reviewed it properly. And during that review I’m often trimming and moving things around to simplify and clarify as much as possible.

This helps both me and the next agent.

Using these tools has made me realise how much of the work we (or I) do is editing: simplifying the codebase to the clearest boundaries, focusing down the APIs of internal modules, actual testing (not just unit tests), managing emerging complexity with constant refactoring.

Currently, I think an LLM struggles with the subtlety and taste aspects of many of these tasks, but I’m not confident enough to say that this won’t change.