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0 pointsjarek10y ago0 comments

From my experience, majority of "bedroom/garage" startups self-limit geographically - whether it's expecting a phone number or a bank account in a given country, or assuming everyone has a U.S. state and zipcode (90210). Data regulation is hardly the deal-breaker when their own dataschemes don't support internationalization.

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estefan10y ago· 2 in thread

I guess it all comes down to how you're meant to determine where someone's data should be stored. Is it by their nationality? What if your app gains popularity outside your launch country? Are you suddenly on the hook for not having sharded your data geographically?

Plenty of popular apps don't require anything like bank account/post code, etc. that could be assumed to prove which country someone is from.

Arnt10y ago

If your app gains popularity in Italy, you have to care about Italy. That means supporting the Italian language always, it means supporting the odd Italian phone numbers if your app happens to deal with phone numbers, and it means complying with Italian law.

Now, if your app does not become popular in Italy, you just have five users there, do you still have to comply? No you don't, because de minimis non curat lex.

estefan10y ago

What about the English speaking world or the Spanish speaking world?

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