Hi everyone, I’m sorry for the business kind of message I’ll be sending this one time only. I live close to Fribourg and I want to start a business selling servers to individuals and small to medium enterprises that are interested in data privacy and sovereignty. I would build those servers and install and configure them in the work space directly, helping users configure their mobile phones and checking their router configuration, offer trainings and also a subscription model for active surveillance of the state of their server.

I’m posting this in this channel because the stack is using NixOS to install Nextcloud and Vaultwarden (I’ve got other plans but that’s the start). The business itself would use 100% open source software. The code to install the apps is available at https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks and the one time install to bootstrap a server is at https://github.com/ibizaman/skarabox. The goal is to have a business model like Nextcloud but also providing the hardware which would follow the right to repair movement. I can fill in as much details as you’d like. Of course, you all can certainly use the code yourselves (I’d love that, actually) and I plan to slowly upstream to nixpkgs like I’m starting with https://discourse.nixos.org/t/pre-rfc-decouple-services-using-structured-typing/58257 but as you can imagine the targeted user is less technical but still excited about data privacy and data sovereignty.

My goal now is to find my first (paying) customer 😁 and I’m messaging you to know if any of you have ideas about who would be interested in having such a server at home? Or if you have ideas about where I should post a message to reach a bigger audience?

Thank you 🙏

In reply to @sliedes:hacklab.fi
I think small or medium enterprise may be a good segment. I mean, I think there are privacy minded people who don't have the skills themselves, and some even know it :-)

Yes, it's already published on the website: https://zurich.nix.ug

Next ZHF event: 24-25 May 2025

However the dates and the agenda are not yet final (waiting for fricklerhandwerk to finish the report from the lats one before we announce the next one)

Yes, it's already published on the website: https://zurich.nix.ug

Next ZHF event: 24-25 May 2025

However the dates and the agenda are not yet final (waiting for fricklerhandwerk to finish the report from the last one before we announce the next one)

Yes, it's already published on the website: https://zurich.nix.ug

Next ZHF event: 24-25 May 2025

However the dates and the agenda are not yet final (waiting for fricklerhandwerk to finish the report from the last one before we formally announce the next one)