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.
Thank you! It so happens that one of my first clients runs a farm, but just my size. I’ve already shared some solutions with the owner, but as free advice to gauge interest.
Some farm equipment is so old, in fact, that it only runs on extremely hacked now open source (kinda) software. In fact, the whole world is rather fascinating and rather underground. If you do your research, you can really get into it.
Currently, farm software/equipment and the whole agricultural and industrial world is that the center of the Right to Repair movement moving through the US Congress, also in Europe.