Post by @passenger@kolektiva.social
More "boring" service providers who are content with a modest profit margin and slow organic growth, please. I don't even care if the UI looks "dated" and new features take a long time to be built. Traditional boring bare metal, only add new customers when you have capacity to support it, whatever.
A company of 50+ year old tech veterans who have been laid off and left behind from age discrimination just looking to keep the bills paid until retirement.
Run it like a co-op, like a little credit union that isn't looking to expand quickly, just serve their little niche of the community.
@passenger @JessTheUnstill In fact... this is what our company was always supposed to be.
I do services like that, and make enough money from them to buy myself (just me, not my co-director) lunch once a month. Everything else we earn comes from full-time-job levels of consulting, one gig per director, and... look I love the work, I have been very lucky to land with my bum square in the butter, but... my retirement plan kinda relies on this thing being self-sustaining with enough of the small services.
Ah well, there's still time :)