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7 points by varunkho 12 years ago | 12 comments

latchkey 12 years ago |

This is a website run out of India (check the whois records). Seems like a tricky way to collect information on employees at businesses. This shouldn't be on the front page of HN.

varunkho 12 years ago | |

This is not a hoax – I'm the creater and I have no interest to collect and run away with your business information :-)

Read the government requirement here: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/newsroom/tr13-02.html

Also this article to get more info: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-03/what-small-b...

However, your comment has costed the website to suddenly jump off the home page.

latchkey 12 years ago | | |

Stuff like this should only be on a .gov website and nobody in their right mind should enter in employee information into a random third party website run out of India by a single dude with a hotmail email address for a whois record. Nice try.

chrisa 12 years ago |

Could you provide more information about the fine you mention? On the FAQ (http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq-noticeofcoverageoptions.htm...) it says there is no fine or penalty for failing to provide a notice.

akinder 12 years ago | |

This feels like some skeevy attempt at grabbing business information. As another poster has pointed out, the server is sitting in India.

varunkho 12 years ago | | |

The server is in fact in USA, if you could have cared to check. I think it would have been better had it been into India to safe it from NSA snooping. isn't it?

varunkho 12 years ago | |

The penalty requirement is recently waved off. I should update it. But the notice is required to be sent under the section 18B of FLSA. Also, if the employee does not receive the notice and he misses the open enrollment period, he can sue the employer later at any point.

varunkho 12 years ago | | |

I couldn't disagree more. With your line of argument, start ups shouldn't exist because "a dude from his garage cannot be trusted with business info." Anyway The information being asked can very well be bought/scraped if somebody needs to.

latchkey 12 years ago | | |

Your site isn't a startup.

varunkho 12 years ago | | |

Keep on imposing your line of argument, and of course downvoting. But the truth is I was trying to solve a pain for small businesses most of which have not yet complied by sending the notification. It seems you never tried the website and started with your baseless arguments. Again with this website I have just made electronic delivery of the notification simpler as the same requires that "delivery is tracked". I just take employees email and name (optional) and basic business information necessary to prepare the model notice obtained from DOL website.

Solving somebody pain is a path to a startup, if you have some other definition please feel free to live by that.

latchkey 12 years ago | | |

I'm sorry that your ~14 day old website didn't make you millions on all the name and email addresses that you could have harvested and sold to the highest bidder. Good luck with your future ventures.

varunkho 12 years ago | | |

I see where you are coming from. It seems that you are already into selling emails business therefore you see others doing a legitimate thing as "harvesting emails to sell for millions." or maybe you are living in your own bubble and has never gone out to try to build something that non-technical can relate to solving their problem. Good luck and next time try to conduct yourself with little humility and that would go a long way in helping you achieve something.