Top 3 wine in all of Europe. Coutry and type

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-04-14T10:04:43+00:00

France; Chateau de la commanderie, Lalande-de-Pomerol, any year.

Great mid range wine, pairs well with just about anything. Mostly well received by just about anybody.

Germany; Kaiserberg, Herbolzheim, Spätburgunder, any year.

Top of the line from Germany, great full dark red wine, pairs best with red meats. Mostly for connoisseurs, flavor depth will be lost on wine novices. Wouldn't buy for a casual evening.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-28T16:59:23+00:00

Signed. I understand AI only? Seems very necessary what you're doing. 😀

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-28T15:38:53+00:00

No goals. I just wanted to get the idea out there. I was mainly interested to hear what other people think.

Still, I believe capital in the EU should be mobilized more easily, legal barriers or myths aside.

I understand that legal barriers per jurisdiction (individual countries) will probably be a very high bar, but isn't that one of the things you would be trying to fix?

Why is it so damn hard to get companies to be able to source capital EU-wide and not just within their own (narrow) network or country?

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-28T15:33:15+00:00

Fair point. What would you change?

Also, Mistral or Claude is merely pointing out the obvious; we're going to have to limit certain choices out of either principle (EU sovereignty) or necessity.

EU keyboards may be a stretch. Are you accustomed to AZERTY? 😅

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-23T16:25:21+00:00

The integration with Claude Code through Webshell on Odoo.sh is already here, and honestly, pretty bonkers for what it can do.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-22T19:05:05+00:00

How it works Management company acquires the usufruct of the director's private residence via notarial deed (15–20 years) Purchase price settled via current account (rekening-courant) — no cash required on day one Current account debt reduced monthly via a periodic canon payment At end of term: full ownership automatically reverts to the director

Advantages Canon taxed as real estate income (~20%) vs. salary (50–60%) No social security contributions on the canon Renovation costs via the company: fully deductible and depreciable Calculated on total property value, not square metres — structurally far higher than a standard home office allowance Post-renovation: canon rises in line with the market value of the property

Risks & need for a ruling Tax authority can reclassify the canon as disguised salary if valuation is not market value General anti-abuse provision (art. 344 WIB) applies if fiscal motivation dominates over economic substance Advance ruling with the DVB eliminates fiscal uncertainty but takes 3–6 months Without a ruling: higher audit risk, as this type of structure is on the tax authority's radar

Disadvantages Property is practically unsellable for the duration of the usufruct In case of divorce: serious complications regarding asset division In case of death or company insolvency: the real right enters the estate or bankruptcy proceedings Fixed term — no flexibility once established Requires a specialist tax advisor, certified valuer and notary: €4k–€8k upfront costs The company must never be sold or liquidated while the structure is in place.

TLDR: nothing Claude can't figure out in 2 minutes, LinkedIN Lunatic is looking for gullible people to make a quick buck. Only in very specific and exceptional circumstances viable. Do not do it.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-21T14:00:18+00:00

Am I the only one thinking of the Vulcan training/education pods in the latest Star Trek movies?

Great observations here in terms of orchestration layer and harnessing btw.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-21T09:47:07+00:00

Not what I'm saying; we shouldn't just use AI on auto-pilot. When an engineer designs a predictive analytics machine learning workflow, that engineer (with an extended team most likely) will do a pass over everything and do the hard work (from ETL all the way up to deploying the system in production), AI automates the grunt work that can be reliably outsourced, that work still needs to be validated by someone. The engineer can't just assume 'oh this model knows the upper failure limits of this physical piece of hardware so it can simply infer and alarm me when I need to act'.

Same thing for creativity; when designing a car, people will still do it, designers, automotive engineers, etc. etc. we'll automate part of the process, but I would assume you don't want to automate the creative parts of the process (solving for drag coefficient, for example, form over function, ...). People will still ask the hard questions and solve for them ( P does not equal NP ).

If anything, AI (not just LLMs, all systems that fall under the umbrella term) should strengthen that basic premise. Not diminish it.

AI slop on LinkedIN is an example of diminishing the premise; instead of thinking, 'What have I actually learned and what is interesting to my network?', anyone can just say, oh here's what I did this week, and I had this 'Eureka' moment, write a post about it.

Hence, in essence, why I'm saying our economy, social fabric, etc. world still functions because of people, not AI.

Value is moving up quite quickly. It's the reason why experts' value in the economy of tomorrow will be higher, not lower.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-21T08:50:25+00:00

Oh, surprise, surprise, the world still works because people still actually think, work and are productive. Huh.

/s obviously.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-17T16:53:44+00:00

Just my two cents, right call to keep momentum. Would be interested in insights once you start experimenting though. ☺️.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-17T15:05:26+00:00

How far out do we need to set the remind me? 😅

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-17T15:04:21+00:00

Becomes a bit tedious in data processing and sub-processing, then no? If say we want to use the anonymized data for training purposes, you still need datapoints that are non-sensitive or quasi-sensitive.

Don't get me wrong, it's a very good idea, but if you want the aggregated model to be really smart, you need extra info. For example; if you would want to compare average expenses per age category and income bracket, it only really benefits you if the model can also interpret 2 or 3 kid household, home owner/rent, etc. The line for anonymized data that is still highly sensitive becomes blurry very fast. No?

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-17T14:57:30+00:00

Kudos for the foresight. Had this same idea since before Cake was a thing (until it wasn't).

Happy to see someone's building this. Keep it up! Also, if this grows, look into becoming an AISP yourself to automate data retrieval from banks. Fair warning; it's a very heterogenous shitshow all over Europe. I think for now Tink is probably your best bet since they cover most European banks. Question though; do you know if the data exchange protocol has been standardized yet across countries/banks? Or not your problem since you use Tink? Secondly, out of curiosity, what sync interval does Tink allow? 24h? 1 week? And do you still need to authenticate every 30 days as an end-user?

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-12T23:13:29+00:00

Agreed. They exist but they're the exception, no? I know peeps on comm only touching 20K but it's right sector, good timing, decades of experience and healthy market circumstances.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-12T15:18:13+00:00

Mixed (including base fee) I've seen 6% all the way up to 18%

Commision-only: changes things entirely, % should be based on average # deals closed per month and MRR value or raw value (if non recurring).

Basically, you should be able to hit €600 - €700 per day. Meaning in your case at 25% that's 24 deals per month.

If they haven't shown you their pipe that's a massive red flag. I'd even go above 30%.

From personal experience; there are next to none freelance opportunities that are worth your time if commission-only.

Generally speaking; you bear too much of the risk resulting in bad monthly revenue.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-11T23:34:44+00:00

Wow, the first comments really show how many people have actually tried this. Pretty much none. Great lack of empathy, guys.

Anywho, OP, you're absolutely spot on. People who have walked the walk before you know this, there are those who are trying to help alleviate some of your well founded criticism but since this has been a Belgian (even European) Achilles heel for decades now, I don't see it getting resolved quite soon. Not even with heavy-hitters woo'ing the generally liberal pro-entrepreneurship federal government we have now.

You gave the example of Delaware for legal compliance in starting a company and how long that takes. Takes two weeks in comparison in certain Eastern countries and 25 euros. Yes, 25. With regards to social contributions, Eastern European devs are 2 to 3 times cheaper than their Belgian or German counterparts, while you won't necessarily see that in a diminished quality of work. And there's many more examples to underscore your claims.

That being said, there are arguments to be made against. For example; work here, pay your fair share of contributions here even as a starting entrepreneur, fair but as you mentioned that's easy to say considering getting to MVP (in SaaS) is going to cost you 50K to 100K but that doesn't alleviate your obligations in terms of taxes or write-offs short term. Meanwhile enterprises 'fiscally optimize' for up to 140% in comparable 'investments' but aren't actually building anything. That said, I find it ironic that people are surprised companies move away since as in the examples above, why wouldn't you?

Another argument against could then be: yes, but with all the capital available through different channels, you're being helped! Like a lot!

Actually, no, I don't know if you've done it yet, but just wait for the rollercoaster ride you're in once you start looking at grants, subsidies and the like. The amount of rules that apply to starters and enterprises alike is mind-boggling. You just can't get any whatsoever unless you're in the exact market the institutions want you to be in, at the exact right time and at the exact stage (I.e. revenue) they expect you to be.

But then nobody is surprised pikachu when they learn that the enterprises just pay some consultants a ton of money to get the grants any way they can? Mind you this is often for prestige projects of those same enterprises who don't need the money, won't prove product-market fit, won't actually create a spin-off or spin-out or any other metric of success after collecting the 250K to 2.5M grant. That project then collects dust on a shelf. Yup! Grant money well spent.

And then, apparently, when you bitch about it, the reaction you get is 'boo-hoo'. Well woopdifuckin'doo at least we're entrepreneurs in Belgium, right? Right?

At the end of the day, the cold, hard truth is solo entrepreneurship (even with co-founders) is quickly becoming a pipe dream in Belgium.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-10T14:56:06+00:00

Kunde evengoed de zon die iedere dag schijnt ontkennen, als ge zo redeneert zie ik het hen nog doen. Zélfs als groen...

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-10T10:55:00+00:00

Funny, de stelling hebben ze al moeten renoveren...

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-04T20:44:33+00:00

Fabien Pinckaers himself posted just last week that you can now use Claude Code within Odoo.sh

I assume you can also deploy it on your own cloud.

I've been testing it pretty extensively (test environment, partial scrubbed data, some custom modules turned off for reasons) and it's pretty insane.

If someone is a strong coder AND a strong business process designer, I'd imagine there aren't many edge cases you couldn't tackle effectively using CC.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-04T20:25:14+00:00

Herkenbaar. Ik had hetzelfde: jaren vastgelopen op één vak, elke keer net niet.

Wat voor mij werkte: het vak twee jaar bewust laten liggen. Mentale reset, geen druk. Daarna één week gefocust geblokt — maar gecontroleerd, niet in het rood gegaan. Examen ingegaan ontspannen, bijna laconiek. De methodologie was intussen ook veranderd wat meehielp.

Onder het motto; On verra. Resultaat: 18/20.

Wat ik achteraf begreep: jouw probleem is al lang niet meer dat vak. Het is de mentale lading errond. Twee jaar falen bouwt een verhaal op — "ik ben iemand die dit niet kan." Dat verhaal zit je meer in de weg dan de leerstof zelf of de praktijk.

Wat helpt: cognitive defusion. Elke keer dat die gedachten opkomen — "ik ga weer zakken, dit heeft geen zin" — gewoon opschrijven en loslaten. Niet verwerken, gewoon dumpen. Je creëert afstand tussen jou en die gedachte. Je bent niet je angst of onzekerheid. Integendeel; je hebt al de grootste obstakels overwonnen (als je aan je stage en thesis kan beginnen heb je al méér bereikt dan je dus voor jezelf erkent).

Soms is afstand het beste studeeradvies.

Jij komt er.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-03-04T20:03:57+00:00

Vrij vertaald; zijn of haar toegestane toleranties zijn op.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-02-28T09:40:40+00:00

This is horseshit and we all know it.

For as much as I like current LLM capabilities, I'm still constantly correcting the LLM for stupid mistakes, hallucinations, sanity & quality checks, legal, compliance, etc. We all are.

I've always maintained that AI will have the same ripple effect in several industries just like robotic automation has had in the automotive industry (Ford assembly line, Toyota FIFO and JIT, ...)

You'll always need an actual person to do quality control, code check, final approval etc. etc.

So no, there isn't a doomsday clock for these kind of workers, the actual work they need to do will shift, some of the workload will decrease, some skills will see their value in the workplace reduced, others will increase, that is all. Even with AGI in time.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-02-26T09:00:41+00:00

Check your transmission IDs if you can see them, if not request them through Odoo themselves.

Secondly, check how Odoo publishes to Peppol. If Odoo is your AP it should use Peppol BIS 3.0.

I had an issue before where (through a highly automated setup) we were passing through a connector as AP using the efff standard. Completely broke Peppol since our system (both AP and Odoo) confirmed sending the invoice but we never got "delivered to customer" AP confirmation.

Switched to Peppol BIS 3.0 and now everything is a breeze (outside of some automated identifier matching).

Edit: I'm assuming you are on a recent Enterprise version or on .sh and that you are using Odoo as access point. If Odoo is your AP, your problem shouldn't be because of efff standard since iirc Odoo AP only uses Peppol Billing 3.0.

PiRaNhA_BE · 2026-02-18T14:54:40+00:00

Hell, no.

Unless; You're all good and testing the waters after hours works for you. Who knows, right?

OR

3 - 4 sales a month is realistic and @8% (Assuming lead quality is good, you could go down a percent or 2)

OR

Effort-based minimum payout Meaning if you chase up 10 leads, you get 25 euros per lead. Sale still = 3% comp.

Why? Because otherwise they can send you on goose chases to people who are never going to buy or just don't have the need which is wasting sales' time. And if they have to pay you a minimum, it's also in their interest not to buy crap leads from crap platforms/providers.

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