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Ideal Business Stack? (lemmy.ml)
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In the land of all the self hosted solutions. What are your best practices / options for business and general admin tasks?

So far we are thinking of setting up a NAS, Paperlessngx for document scanning, FreePBX for phone system, they have accounting software and employee time tracking software. Planning to use nextcloud, running on Proxmox including backups to NAS, with tailscale for 2 people to get in from outside, photoprism for photo storage, portainer.

The goal is a simple, clean, hands off, ways to cut down, centralize the general business work flow. This is a from scratch build and start. All options welcome, the point is to explore ideas. Full production environment for a small business. 1 or 2 office people, 1 to 10 employees. Using a gaming rig mid high end specs which is way overkill for this setup but it might grow depending on this post.

I am looking to FOSS-ify a local business. It's a service based business, that also does manufacturing which is growing rapidly to overtake the service side it seems this is their goal anyhow.

This is our time to shine! To show how far we have come and what we can now do! An exciting project.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The whole reason I took this job is the stake in the company

Man I was suppressing the red flags up until now; this is the straw that breaks the camel's back. You are going to get shafted at this job. It might be because someone is embezzling, they're committing fraud in their manufacturing processes, or one of the owners is going to cut and run and leave the rest of you holding the bag. Maybe one day you'll just show up and the doors are all locked.

You need to do absolutely everything by the book, document, document, document, CYA, and in a way that when shit goes south you'll still have that documentation. And always have an exit plan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Everything is by the book. It's a family business. I have documentation of every single move that's happened since my arrival, I'm in the financials and business customer and vendor relations. None of what your saying holds any water at all. You simply have misjudged the situation. Likely due to my poor explanation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I see people who are showing concern borne of experience, and with marked consensus. If you're confident they're wrong about your situation, it still may be worth reflecting on what they've learned and to limit your ambitions - or at least, consider building things on a more conservative timeline than you were imagining. Have big dreams, but start with biting off an amount you can certainly chew.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Absolutely and this post has done just that. Which is exactly why I made the entire post to begin with.

I have a set of problems and wanted to try to solve them as resource friendly, open source, as possible. I will consider all tools for the job. Open, closed, what have you. At the end of the day the best tools for the job always wins.