Commerce · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Banking Access Index – 19 US banking providers, 8 countries, CC-BY
Hi HN — I'm Jett, a solo founder operating across US/China/global markets. I built Global Solo because I kept running into the same problem: as a solo founder with income from multiple countries, an LLC in one jurisdiction, and time spent in another — I had no idea what my actual structural risk looked like. My CPA handled US filing, but nobody was mapping the full picture across entity structure, tax residency, banking, and documentation. So I built a diagnostic tool that does exactly that. *What it is:* A structured risk assessment across 4 dimensions — Money, Entity, Tax, and…
The Banking Access Index is a free, open-licensed dataset documenting which of 19 US business banking providers accept non-US-resident founders of US LLCs across 8 countries. It contains 239 verified claims, each cited… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Hello Hacker News! My name is Anonyo, and I am a seventeen-year-old from Southeast Michigan. This is wallstreetlocal, my passion project for the last year (and a half). I've posted this before, but I've finally open-sourced this entire project, so I thought I'd post it again. Heres the short pitch. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) keeps record of every company in the United States. Companies whose holdings surpass $100 million though, are required to file a special type of form: the 13F form. This form, filed quarterly, discloses the filer's holdings, providing transparency into…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A mobile business bank account built for makers
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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One-stop-shop for US and non-US residents to launch a US LLC
2021 · its alternatives →
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Heya! Not the usual sort of thing to be posted here, but I wanted to show off what I made yesterday. Here's a sample page about H1-B visas issued in Bogota: The code is source-available (not open source) at . It's my first time choosing a source-available license over MIT, mainly out of fear of existing immigration startups just gobbling this data and code up; frankly I didn't think the implications through though, I just threw a safe license on there. The way the project works is: - Use requests-html to find publicly available PDFs from government pages - Use camelot to OCR the PDFs and…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I just launched Bank List, an online banking directory to help people find the perfect bank for their needs. It currently has 170+ banks/EMIs and it's mostly focused on individuals and businesses from Europe, but I plan on adding new regions soon. The business model is affiliate marketing, I earn commission when someone signs up on any of these banks through my link. Maybe I will also add featured listings on the site, still need to think about this though. I would love to receive feedback about the website and business idea in general. Thank you
2023 · banklist.io · its alternatives →
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So I’m writing a guide about accessing US Banking & Credit as a non-US resident. It’s work-in-progress but the first couple of chapters are accessible for everybody. Any feedback is appreciated!
2023 · its alternatives →
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Some technical context on what we ran into building this. MCP tools don't really work for financial data at scale. One tool call for five years of daily prices dumps tens of thousands of tokens into the context window. And data vendors pack dozens of tools into a single MCP server, schemas alone can eat 50k+ tokens before the agent does anything useful. So we auto-generate typed Python modules from the MCP schemas at workspace init and upload them into the sandbox. The agent just imports them like a normal library. Only a one-line summary per server stays in the prompt. We have around 80…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Find your ideal offshore banking country among 50+ options
2025 · projectblackledger.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've been working on an open sourced tool called Bank Rank to track bank account fees, rates, and balance requirements in the United States. For a quick primer, there are 4 broad categories of insured deposit accounts in the U.S.: Checking, Savings, Money Market, and Time Deposit. Banks oftentimes offer multiple tiers of each account, and with over 9,200 banks and credit unions, some quick back-of-the-napkin math means that there are over 70,000 accounts competing for consumers, with rates and fees that can change daily. I've personally grown frustrated with a number of problems[0]…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all, global sales tax compliance is one of those things that's not top of mind but can be an annoyance because sometimes you just can't get away with it when selling internationally. We've been really frustrated with how sales tax tools out there usually only focus on one particular region (i.e. US states, Canada, and maybe Europe), even though there are like 260+ jurisdictions around the world each with their own sales tax, VAT, or GST rules pertaining to digital products. So we made our own global sales tax index that covers virtually every jurisdiction you can think of, with updated…
2024 · loofapay.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on this the last few days after seeing a post on reddit calling for this exact website to exist. I'm hoping the email-less/account-less and open data might be appealing. I'd love any feedback you might have, and of course if you were to volunteer some data ;) I'm aware it looks bad on mobile atm.
2022 · hourly.fyi · its alternatives →
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Excited to share my New Year’s project. For a long time, I’ve wanted to build H-1B data directly into Levels.fyi. Every time I went looking for this data elsewhere, it was a frustrating experience to use. Most H-1B sites felt antiquated, unintuitive, cluttered with ads, or just overwhelming to use. The data was there, but it wasn’t usable, and definitely not pleasant to explore. So out of that frustration, I decided to build the H-1B data experience I personally wanted to use. Right into Levels.fyi. https://levels.fyi/h1b/ Some other pages I'm excited about: Wage Heatmap:…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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Free, open API for 521M+ company records worldwide
Jun 2026 · registry-lookup.com · its alternatives →
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non Us residents: start us llc + bank account launch global
Nov 2025 · llcclass.com · its alternatives →
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VaultLeapfree tier, from $14.99/mo▲10I'm Greg, co-founder of VaultLeap. Built this for founders who can't get a US bank account. USD/EUR/MXN accounts with real ACH routing numbers and we have Visa cards coming soon. If you've been cut off from Mercury or similar recently, DM me — happy to help some founders out.
2025 · vaultleap.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm sharing our Corporate Hierarchy API that we just launched in beta. Its current focus is on mapping the complete corporate ownership upwards to the ultimate parent by doing deep research across the open web and global government registries. The problem: Companies spend millions on manual research teams to answer compliance / risk questions like, "does this business roll up to a state owned entity in China / Russia?". A bankruptcy processor we work with had 30 people just manually researching data points like this. An ex-Shell trader told us Shell has 800 people +…
2025 · savvyiq.ai · its alternatives →
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Free synthetic bank statements for testing parser accuracy
Mar 2026 · bankstatemently.com · its alternatives →
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Get Proof of a U.S. Address for Non-Resident LLC Banking
Sep 2026 · nomadpreneur.io · its alternatives →
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Bloc▲17Banking services for passionate founders & business owners.
2024 · blochq.io · its alternatives →
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