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.

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 hours ago

    What anyone in that industry will tell you is that it’s extremely sink or swim

    And there’s always someone doing it cheaper. And wrong. I got some weird and unexpected DMARC reports a while ago. A local guy has I guess one o365 license, with the domains for all his clients, with forwarding rules for all his clients to their free Gmail/ISP email. Rather a privacy issue.