biz59
Tools for developers, data people and small teams.
Biz59 LLC is a small company in New York. We build and run eleven products, most of them with one sign-in, and we write about what we see in software, AI and startups.
A database client, plus free data tools in the browser.
iPaid, i Owe: track what you owe and what is owed to you.
Security tools for small sites and teams, with one sign-in.
Short links, QR codes and page-view tracking.
An email router for apps, developers and bots.
Privacy policies, consent records and download/delete requests for apps and sites.
Website, policies, support pages, sign-in and cloud sync for your mobile app.
Offline-first cloud sync for your app's data, with sign-in for your users built in.
Our build agent: describe your app in a chat and watch it get built. Coming soon.
A whiteboard that also draws the diagram from your outline.
Markdown notes and documents that look good on screen and on paper.
More articles
EU VAT for a non-EU software company: the OSS registration, the zero threshold and what it costs to file
A non-EU company owes VAT on its first euro of software sold to EU consumers: there is no EUR 10,000 allowance outside the EU. The rate in all 27 countries, registering for the non-Union OSS in Ireland, the 10th-day rule, the quarterly return worked through, the evidence of customer location, reverse charge for business customers, and what filing yourself costs against Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Creem and Stripe Managed Payments at EUR 5,000 and EUR 50,000 a month.
SOC 2 for a five-person SaaS: what the audit costs and when a customer really needs it
Type 1 or Type 2, what Vanta, Drata and Secureframe sell for in 2026 (Vendr medians of $20,000 to $24,934 a year), auditor and pen test fees, a full year-one budget for five people ($36,500 to $46,500 in cash), what a bridge letter can and cannot do, which buyers stall without the report and the break-even deal size.
Support with two people: the response times customers expect from a small SaaS and how to meet them
Published benchmarks (62% of companies never answer an email; a one-hour first reply puts a SaaS in the top 15%), what Plausible, Transistor, Buttondown and Fathom promise, how two people cover a week without 63-hour Friday gaps, 2026 prices of shared inboxes, help desks and AI replies ($0.75 to $2.00 a resolution) with a worked example, where an AI answer angers customers, and six numbers to check every Monday.