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.
Here’s the challenge: SMB generally has tight budgets and owners struggle to see the value in IT. It all “costs too much” in their minds.
And that’s before trying to sell them on ideas that are atypical.
Even from a cost-saving perspective, so much software out there is Windows-only that even hosting stuff with Linux servers can be a risk.
It really depends on the market segment, even then there’s a lot of risk involved, and business hates risk.