Guides · Countries · Blog

The Hitchhiker’s Guide through kxb

What it actually takes to start something of your own: the offices in order, the boxes on the forms, and the traps nobody writes down. Checked against the sources, dated, and open to corrections from people who walked it.

True everywhere

The chapters every country guide points into instead of repeating.

Before you promotePromotion feels like the zero-risk first step. Legally it is the moment everything else becomes due - here is what has to be true before the first post, ad or discount code.The legal shell of a websiteThe four documents a commercial site needs before it takes money - or runs ads - and what belongs in each. Germany-strict, which means safe almost everywhere.Setting up StripeWhat Stripe actually asks for at activation, the order that avoids doing anything twice, and the tax settings that are easy to skip and expensive to skip.The growth playbookHow to run a marketing experiment and where to read its result, how codes and prices are minted, the giveaway recipe, and the once-a-week posting rule.

How it was made

How we built the boxing gameA fighting game is a pile of seventy-millisecond windows. This is how it became a package: pure rules, one frame-data table, a defender who is always right, and the one thing no client may decide.How we built Mau-MauA card game where the whole design falls out of one sentence: a hand is a secret. Why the client decides nothing, the deck lives behind a lock, and two card packs share one grid.How we built the p5.js cartridgeA stranger’s JavaScript, running on your origin, is a security incident. This is how it became a feature instead: an opaque-origin container, a wrapper that makes a hundred lines of p5 multiplayer, and the two bugs only a real second browser could find.

Countries

Written, checked against the sources, and dated.

On the list. If you have been through one of these, yours is the guide we want.

Europe

Albania · Andorra · Belarus · Belgium · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Cyprus · Iceland · Liechtenstein · Luxembourg · Malta · Moldova · Monaco · Montenegro · North Macedonia · San Marino · Serbia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Vatican City

Africa

Algeria · Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cabo Verde · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Chad · Comoros · Congo · DR Congo · Côte d’Ivoire · Djibouti · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Eswatini · Ethiopia · Gabon · Gambia · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Lesotho · Liberia · Libya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Mauritius · Morocco · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger · Rwanda · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Somalia · South Sudan · Sudan · Tanzania · Togo · Tunisia · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe

North America

Canadain en

Mexicoin en

United Statesin en

Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Nicaragua · Panama · St. Kitts and Nevis · St. Lucia · St. Vincent and the Grenadines · Trinidad and Tobago

South America

Argentinain en

Brazilin en

Bolivia · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Uruguay · Venezuela

Asia

United Arab Emiratesin en

Afghanistan · Armenia · Azerbaijan · Bahrain · Bangladesh · Bhutan · Brunei · Cambodia · China · Georgia · Indonesia · Iran · Iraq · Israel · Jordan · Kazakhstan · Kuwait · Kyrgyzstan · Laos · Lebanon · Malaysia · Maldives · Mongolia · Myanmar · Nepal · North Korea · Oman · Pakistan · Palestine · Philippines · Qatar · Saudi Arabia · South Korea · Sri Lanka · Syria · Taiwan · Tajikistan · Thailand · Timor-Leste · Turkmenistan · Uzbekistan · Vietnam · Yemen

Oceania

Australiain en

New Zealandin en

Fiji · Kiribati · Marshall Islands · Micronesia · Nauru · Palau · Papua New Guinea · Samoa · Solomon Islands · Tonga · Tuvalu · Vanuatu

A word before you go

Every start is slow. That is not a verdict, it is the terrain.

Work confident, stay playful - the two are not opposites, they are the trick.

Respect the people you build with, and the ones you build for.

Don’t do evil. Not even the profitable kind.

And have fun. It shows in the work, and it is the whole point of the arcade.

This is a map, not legal or tax advice - and an honest one about how it was drawn: the Germany guide was written by a person who walked the route; most other countries were drafted with AI against the official sources and have not yet been walked by someone who did it. Laws change. Every guide carries the date it was last checked and the sources to check it yourself - and if you have been through one of these routes, your corrections are exactly what this handbook wants.