If you start an LLC, you're going to be applying for an EIN anyway. You'll definitely need an accountant. Probably could find lots of templates and documents online for free (lawdepot.com, pandadoc.com, eforms.com, docracy.com, usefyi.com) And yes your crew would probably be 1099. Source: almost 3 years ago

Look at https://uppy.io/ open source and lot of integrations. You can keep moving to different levels of abstraction as required and see some good practices of how things are done. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

I just found uppy. This will be the next one I use. https://uppy.io/. Source: 12 months ago

I’m building a photo sharing website and want to make it incredibly easy to upload photos. Of course I could just utilize AWS official packages but that’s pretty bare bones. I could also use next-s3-upload which is purpose built for Next and simplifies some things but is still fairly basic. But then there’s things like uppy that provides everything you’d ever need in an uploaded (third party sources, camera, etc.)... Source: about 1 year ago

Media file uploads with the Uppy JavaScript uploader plugin. Source: over 1 year ago

I would look at Uppy.js, I've used it in an enterprise application and it works super well, makes it super easy to do what you're trying to achieve with progress bars for each file. Source: over 1 year ago