Post by @qkslvrwolf@mastodon.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.
@JessTheUnstill literally wanna start a company like this but not alone and can't find folks to do it with.
@qkslvrwolf @JessTheUnstill I'm seeing quite a bit of interest in this thread. Think we could bootstrap it fully remote?
@dpflug @JessTheUnstill Jess lemme know if you wanna be removed from replies.
I think the "bare metal" part is probably real hard fully remote unless the first thing you work on is like...roll your own ISP or someone lives somewhere with very cheap real estate and business internet.
Other than that, yes, I think remote is totally possible.
@qkslvrwolf @dpflug I wasn't thinking bare metal like start my own data center, more like just renting out space in colos. Start with 2-3 servers in 2 data centers and grow from there.
@JessTheUnstill @dpflug I mean, i've daydreamed about using surplus boxes from pcliquidators or whatever to provide some services, but that requires access to a data center or creating a closet in a something cheap near me.