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Caribbean Freelancers: what's the single biggest headache getting paid by overseas clients? Reply below. We built Flash to kill exactly this, and we're reading every one.

Seriously, thank you to everyone who showed up week one. Week two we are going deeper on the API and the send-money-home story. Stay tuned.

Most apps tell you how you're allowed to take your money out

Why we built Flash

Nature finds a way

@PeterMcCormack @Wise x.com/LNFlash/status…

You literally closed by account without reason and have kept nearly £12,000 you have not returned. You said it was because of Bitcoin, but I never used @wise to buy Bitcoin. It turned out it was because a Bitcoin company paid an invoice. You froze my account, froze my funds and have not returned a VAT payment that was sent to you.

Nature finds a way.

@72BMustapha @Wise Nature finds a way.

I was at dinner. Went to pay the bill, opened Apple Pay and every card was gone. Confused, I logged into @Wise. That's how I found out they closed my business account. No email. No warning. No reason. Just gone with $50,000 of my company's money locked inside. That's everything i have. I've been a @Wise customer for 5+ years. This is extremely disappointing. No notification that they'd even done it. I only knew because I couldn't pay for dinner. Then I spent hours trying to appeal — the app and website kept logging me out over and over. Finally appealed and waited for any acknowledgement at all. Silence for 3 days. So I filed a formal complaint. Two more days of silence again. Finally I called and explained, in detail, exactly what this is doing to my business. Their answer: "we've received it, we're working on it, we'll get back to you within 15 days." Here's what "15 days" means when it's your entire operating account: supplier invoices due, freight forwarders waiting to be paid to clear shipments already in transit, creators unpaid, inventory down to days. if stock didn't make it on time my Amazon listing goes out of stock, it loses the ranking I spent months and serious ad spend building, my creators will also leave and be really furious, that doesn't come back when they return my money. That damage is permanent. Every day they sit on this, they're not just holding my cash. They're dismantling the business. This is a legitimate, registered US business. Every single dollar traces to payouts and supplier invoices, fully auditable. I offered to send them everything: Payouts reports, invoices, ID, contracts. They never asked for a single document before closing me. Not one. I'm not a scammer. I'm a founder who built something over years, and I got locked out of it at a dinner table with no explanation and no way to reach a human who can help. @Wise — return my company's money. this is unacceptable Complaint case 25050042.

If you've ever tried to get paid from a country your bank doesn't like, you already know the workaround gets messy fast. Flash lets you skip the workarounds.

tfw getting paid is hard

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You can now get your own US or EUR account number from anywhere in the world. In minutes. From your phone. No US address, no bank branch, no paperwork. Heres what we just shipped at Flash 🧵

Weve been building the fix. More this week.

Wires cost a fortune and take days.

If you dont live in the US or Europe, the hardest part of freelancing isnt the work. Its getting paid. A short thread on the tax you pay for being born in the wrong country 🧵