In the first phase I’m going to host us in my social club. TLSC is a private, self hosted and invitation-only instance of Discourse. It’s an experiment in creating something like a private LinkedIn, so should fit the purpose. I want to avoid the overhead of running another service so this can be our forum, unless people bring something better.

Actually my wife and I do self-host a Matrix server too. We use it to chat and call (mostly sharing links and grocery lists), but I don’t think it’s a great platform for organizing communities. Like other similar products it tends to get chaotic and noisy, and it’s very difficult to find what was said even few hours before. Good for real time communication, but not so much for thoughtful work or organizing information.

It does make sense. If you are thinking about it as a commercial service, then of course we can offer help. Currently I’m in the process of assembling the core team (see https://lemm.ee/post/58578768 for details). Once we are together, we will have to do market research and see for what kind of services people are willing to pay us. But we will almost certainly have people competent for such work.

If on the other hand you are thinking about your personal services, then I expect that within the co-op there will be plenty of mutual support and learning opportunities for that. But it’s important to remember that we are starting a business, so the first focus is to generate income.

Thanks for reaching out. Good luck with your exams!

Good to hear! I am just collecting a list of interested people and will be in touch with you and others shortly. Enjoy the evening!

Thanks, but would you elaborate please? I’m not sure how to interpret your question. If by “moving out of the cloud” you mean migrating to on-premises or self hosted solutions, then sure, I don’t see why not.

Thank you ❤️ May I ask where are you based? Feel free to reach out in a dm if you don’t want to share publicly.

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Great to hear from you! I’ll reach out to you next week to talk.

Good to hear from you. I’ll reach out after the weekend too arrange a call.

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Good idea. I’ll grep it and see.

Good point, but no. I avoid this crap like a dirty nappy.

Good to hear. I’ll reach out next week.

I will certainly loop you in. My plan is to contact each of you next week and then organize some meeting and brainstorming. Just need to gather my thoughts and maybe give some more time for people to respond.

Or here in this topic. The discussions are happening kind of in parallel 🤷 I don’t really have any communication strategy.

Great to hear that! I’ll contact you next week.

I hereby put you down on the aforementioned list :D Will be in touch.

Nice work! Maybe we can partner somehow. Let me first get the team together. Once we decide on a business model we will sure look for partners.

Yes, I will be reaching out to people who are interested (like you) next week.

I’m glad to hear you like it. I guess the most important is a bit of entrepreneurship and good team work. Certainly technical skills like yours, but also marketing, sales, client relations and probably more that I can’t think of yet. We will need to figure this out together. Of course not everyone has to have every skill. We will need diverse people who can support each other.