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.
Yup. But small companies can’t pay what you need to make.
I’m in the process of being shifted to do software dev and tech for a small company because what they need is actually what you are offering. But they don’t want to pay what it costs for those things.
So instead now I have to do it as I’m the only person on payroll that knows why we shouldn’t “just use Microsoft Edge to manage our data entry”.
A few weeks ago I was forced to launch a shared script app with zero testing because the boss took one 15sec glance at the project and said “this is perfect! Ship it now!”. Joke is on them cause it only works on my laptop and I still don’t know why.