Luis Godoy Alvarez
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Nebengewerbe Gründen

Seven questions, then a personal starting plan for founding a side business in Germany: what is due now, what can wait, and in which order. Free, no login, plus a Gewerbeamt finder covering every German municipality.

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How it works

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    Seven short questions

    On situation, plan, current state, uncertainty, budget and brand intentions. Structured, not a form with thirty fields.

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    Your starting plan

    One first important step and the next ones in a sensible order: check your employment contract, prepare the registration, separate receipts and payments.

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    Only then recommendations

    Guides, topics and providers appear exactly where they make the next step easier, not before.

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Why

After I registered my own side business with Niflheim Records, people kept asking me the same things: what do I have to do, how does it work, what does it cost, was it hard, what should I think about first. At some point I thought, if that many people ask, I will make a site and they can see my answers there. Every time I learn something new, I write an article or update an old one.

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Insight

The seven questions lead to Freya, the assistant behind the starting plan. Freya is a mix of Claude and GPT: depending on the question, the model that gives the better answer replies. For every municipality in Germany the official path to documents and registration is stored, so that "where do I actually register this" does not stay the hardest question. The stack is Find My Seidla's: Next.js, Vercel, Supabase.

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Screens

Screenshot of The seven questions. Free, no login.
The seven questions. Free, no login.nebengewerbe-gruenden.de
Screenshot of The Gewerbeamt finder.
The Gewerbeamt finder.nebengewerbe-gruenden.de
Screenshot of The guides, from official sources.
The guides, from official sources.nebengewerbe-gruenden.de
Screenshot of The starting plan on a phone.
The starting plan on a phone.nebengewerbe-gruenden.de
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What else is in there

Where the product stops

No legal, tax or financial advice. The plan gives orientation and shows what to check. The site says exactly that, directly under the first button, not in the small print.

Gewerbeamt finder
The way to the right office for every municipality in Germany, so that "where do I actually register this" does not end up being the hardest question.
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Affiliate links are marked as such. That is stated as its own point on the front page, not buried in the imprint.
Personal link
The finished plan sits behind a personal link that is not publicly listed.
Bilingual
German and English, plus a dark mode.

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