Just thinking out loud here. I don’t know too much about starting my own business, but I have a pipe dream about having a side gig building on-site mini servers for clients who want to start their own businesses.
I could speak with the client, find out what type of business they’re developing, then pair them up with FOSS applications and hardware they’d run on their property. I could also update it all remotely. It would be like a plumber/electrician that can show people how to manage the tools I bring to them.
I was thinking of doing this as a really small personal business, meeting with the clients and installing systems for them.
You think there’s a market for something like this? I don’t really have anyone in my circle who knows the business or tech side of this.
There’s a market. One guy in my area runs all the websites for like a hundred local companies. I think he just has a bunch of Apache servers that he patches occasionally and collects checks.
Small companies often have a very small budget. They don’t want to pay a lot for software either.
Great to know, thanks for sharing! I’m going to start very slowly with people I know, lol.