Oliver Eidel
Personal website of Oliver Eidel, with writing on software, business, taxes, and life.
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- 101 from 25 Nov 2015 to 23 Sep 2026
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2026 33
- My German Exit Tax: 13 Tax Advisors, 1.5 Years, 18.7k€ to be able to leave the country
- Buying a Camera in Bangkok
- How We Downloaded All Our Loom Videos And Migrated To Chairkick
- German Exit Tax: What To Do Before Your First Funding Round
- The Thai Security Dude
- Moving Away From Cap (Loom Alternative) + Hetzner S3
- Leaving Germany For Thailand: People, Cleanliness, Crime
- Hetzner S3 Is Not Good
- Basecamp 5 Is.. Not Good (For Us)
- German Exit Tax Data Points & Anecdotes
- Avoid German Exit Tax By Setting Up a Sole Proprietorship Instead of a GmbH
- The "Easiest" German Exit Tax Solution: A GmbH & Co. KG Contribution
- Self-hosting Cap (Loom Alternative): Hetzner + S3 + Caddy
- "Founder Mode" on Ankylosing Spondylitis: Remission with Supplements
- German Exit Tax Deferral Due to Intention to Return: How it Works
- German Exit Tax Hack: Leave Again After 6 Years --> No Exit Tax
- German Exit Tax Strategy: Sell Your Company Shares
- German Exit Tax On ETFs: How it works
- Set Up a Cooperative (Genossenschaft) to Avoid German Exit Tax?
- Solve German Exit Tax By Setting Up a German Trust
- German Exit Tax Idea: Return Within 1-2 Years --> No Exit Tax Mar 09, 2026
- Solve German Exit Tax By Setting Up a Liechtenstein Trust (yes, seriously) 2 comments Mar 09, 2026
- An Efficient German Company Setup (GmbH) Mar 06, 2026
- Reduce German Exit Tax Through Low Company Valuation (vereinfachtes Ertragswertverfahren) Mar 06, 2026
- Germany's Exit Tax: All You Need to Know Mar 06, 2026
- Patterns of Agentic Coding with Rails Mar 02, 2026
- Your SaaS Will Have an API, Whether You Build It Or Not Feb 23, 2026
- Notes on Agentic Coding (+ Rails) Feb 22, 2026
- The Ricoh Printing Experience Feb 18, 2026
- The Kafkaesque German Bureaucracy Jan 28, 2026
- Expat Bank Accounts For Digital Nomads 3 comments Jan 19, 2026
- Founding a Company in Germany in 2026 Apparently Takes Three Months 3 comments Jan 05, 2026
- Transparency, with a Paywall: The German Transparency Register Nov 17, 2025
2025 22
- The Rise of Exit Taxes Nov 12, 2025
- Opening a Thai Bank Account on Thailand's DTV Visa 2 comments Nov 10, 2025
- Rails 8: Setting up Litestream for SQLite on Hetzner S3 (on Dokku) Oct 20, 2025
- 4 SQLite Databases: Is Rails 8 Taking SQLite Too Far? Oct 01, 2025
- Using SQLite On Dokku (With Rails 8) Oct 01, 2025
- What Amsterdam's Prostitution Taught Me About B2B SaaS Sales Sep 08, 2025
- Choosing a Business Bank Account For Your German GmbH Aug 15, 2025
- No More VAT IDs: Did Estonia Quietly Kill Its e-Residency For Digital Nomads? (August 2025) 8 comments Aug 14, 2025
- Exit Tax: Leave Germany Before Your Business Gets Big 17 comments Aug 07, 2025
- Equal Salaries For Remote Workers: What Is Equal, Anyway? Jun 17, 2025
- Using pgvector in dokku (migrating from vanilla Postgres) 2 comments Jun 10, 2025
- Digital Dinosaurs Supervising Medtech: Getting Audited By The Berlin Authorities May 10, 2025
- An Optimized Setup For Bloodletting Apr 24, 2025
- Dokku: Set Up Postgres Backups To Hetzner S3 Apr 21, 2025
- Build a Consulting Business Before You Build a Product Business 4 comments Apr 20, 2025
- Bangkok Condo Reviews Apr 04, 2025
- No Co-Founder Needed: Being a Solo Founder 3 comments Mar 10, 2025
- Holding-GmbH vs. Normal GmbH in Germany: Worth The Hassle? 3 comments Mar 07, 2025
- Magic Benefits of ETF Investing You Didn't Know Of 2 comments Mar 06, 2025
- Goodbye, DiGAs: The DiGA Bubble Is Bursting Jan 29, 2025
- Solutions For Germany's Exit Tax 24 comments Jan 15, 2025
- Running a Profitable SaaS Company Is Brutal, Brutal Pain Dec 19, 2024
2024 17
- Rails: How To Migrate S3 Providers via ActiveStorage Mirroring Dec 01, 2024
- How To Find An Alternative Career As a Doctor Nov 15, 2024
- Using Hetzner S3 Object Storage in Rails 1 comment Nov 01, 2024
- Acarbose: Life-Changing Farts You Will Remember Oct 09, 2024
- All My Hacks For Founding a Company In Germany (And Running It) 6 comments Sep 17, 2024
- Vitamin B12: You Should Probably Be Injecting Hydroxocobalamin 4 comments Sep 04, 2024
- The EU AI Act Is Here. We're Screwed Aug 13, 2024
- Is GDPR Saving 2,920 Lives Per Year? 2 comments Jul 17, 2024
- Tokyo: Japanese Toilets And Express Trains Jun 01, 2024
- Estonia's e-Residency Is Awesome And Sucks, Too 27 comments May 04, 2024
- How To Found a Company In Germany: 16 "Easy" Steps And Lots Of Pain 17 comments Apr 03, 2024
- Publications Mar 28, 2024
- Reading Mar 28, 2024
- Talks Mar 28, 2024
- Don't Make These 9 Mistakes When Building Your Startup Mar 13, 2024
- How I Built a Bootstrapped Consulting Company: From Zero To 60k€ Revenue 2 comments Mar 13, 2024
- Don't Take VC Funding - It Will Destroy Your Company 3 comments Jul 09, 2023
2023 3
2022 2
2021 1
2020 2
2019 10
- The (Un-)Natural Progression of Machine Learning Nov 10, 2019
- I Wanted a CO2 Sensor, I Got a Fart Detector 3 comments Oct 17, 2019
- The Rush of Shipping Oct 14, 2019
- Don't Be an Engineer, Be a Producer Oct 09, 2019
- Businesspeople Are Useless Oct 01, 2019
- Abstracting Light Switches: How to Solve Real Problems Sep 22, 2019
- We need more Hackers Jun 05, 2019
- Making My Own Glasses 1 comment Apr 24, 2019
- Thread-safe queues in Clojure Jan 22, 2019
- React less Dec 31, 2018