As far as I know, incorporating a BV in the Netherlands can be done in 1-2 weeks, with a lot of less pain. Many services are integrated and available online.
You call €25k liability? I just decided I won't work with a company that can't cover €25M in liability. Should the state force you to block that in your bank account just in case you want to work with me?
It's because some understanding was lost somewhere between the article and OP.
The €25k are not a liability insurance or anything like that. It's a starting capital to make sure that the company can honor its bills. Liability is covered via separate insurances.
If you continue developing this, I recommend completely scrapping the UI and finding a person or AI who can create something usable. What you're showing there is really that bad -- if you consider it acceptable, and expect to be able to sell it, then you really need to partner up with someone who knows what they're doing.
To be clear: as a prototype, it's more than fine. As long as the UI isn't the innovation, make it real first and experiment with it as much as you can. Show it to users, see whether they understand it and see the value. As a domain expert, making your ideas real in any way will make it easier to bring others on board who can create a pleasant experience.
The UI you're showing now looks more like a bag of controls thrown on a page by a backend engineer in 2006 and less like a B2C product in 2026. Various boxes all over the place, weird colors, misalignment, inconsistent spacing, confusing what does what, a random calculator(?) in the middle of the screen, unclear abbreviated labels. It needs so much work that a full rethink might be in order.
You did not do the work, why should you feel any ownership of it? You asked someone else to do it, they did it, and you used the result. You could have just as well used Fiverr.
But you're right to have an existential crisis if you're in the creative industry, we all have that capable someone else on our phones now for $20/month.
I don't understand Casio watches. I know that aesthetics are highly subjective but, outside of retro nostalgia, does anyone actually enjoy looking at this thing on their wrist?
The massive plastic bezel shouting PROTECTION, G-SHOCK, G-LIDE, random text on the display like SOLAR POWERED, HEART RATE, START-STOP, SHOCK RESIST, WATER RESIST 20BAR, TIDE GRAPH, besides the permanent function labels, all strike me as childish at best, not something an adult would wear unironically.
They release collabs all the time with streetwear brands. They’ve released watches with PAC Man, stranger things, haribo gummies,
Toyota, Honda, etc.
Chunky digital watches aren’t my thing either but Casio has carved out a very nice niche for themselves. They can essentially keep releasing the same designs with various colors and materials for decades.
And I do appreciate a solid, durable and accurate dumb watch sometimes. I have a couple analog/digital G-shocks that look very nice.
Personally I don’t understand the market for very expensive watches that are fragile, less accurate, need constant maintenance and look like nothing special for many thousands of dollars. To each their own.
I wear them. Sometimes it’s just fun to have a blocky, overly decorated thing on your wrist. Mostly I wear one for the utility I.e I’m doing something stupid where I might get hurt or wet or both and I really need to know the time.
They’re fun and functional. Childish? I hope that’s something that will never entirely fade in me. Pretending to adult all the time is exhausting
I just wish the guy on the right would stop trying to take a shit while he plays. It's hella distracting. But yeah, thanks for the intro to this - me likey.
You can run something like Qwen 2.5 Coder on a regular machine (https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B) but it's really not in the same universe with Claude Code, it will be slow and generate bad code.
It might make sense to run a small LLM locally for general conversation or very specific tasks, but they're not a serious option for agentic coding.
Already many years ago I remember installing a firewall on my phone and noticing in surprise that Outlook was not connecting at all to my private mail server, but instead only sending my credentials to their cloud and downloading messages from there.
The only Android mail client not making random calls to cloud servers was (back then) K-9 Mail.
