Sounds like you could use some remote servers so you csn enjoy your travels

My local makerspace is doing classes and grant money is payingbl for the instructor's time (in the class, not all the prep time). I'm doing one on Meshtastic (w/ some 3d printing), there's a pottery one, stained glass, switching from Win 10 to Linux, and more.

The space is run by donations from the community. A fair amount of it comes from people with high paying tech jobs who just want to see spaces like this exist.

Honestly, the much bigger lift is dedicating hours every week to hosting open hours, more hours every month having a programming meeting (what events to have, who is willing to run then) and monthly business meetings (finances, how are we going to get the word out about programming, member drives, etc.). We have two people that do most of this for the entire space. We need more volunteers and that seems to be the thing in the shortest supply.

I'm not talking about a company who sells you a server that you have to configure, patch, punch holes in your router's firewall, run into massive headaches when two apps want to use the same port, etc.

Besides, anyone can use yunohost for free if they want the supposedly easy to use solution.

I'm talking about the option to have someone take that load off of people.

If I understand correctly, you are implying that there's no market for such a service. Either people will use commercial services that make money off being data brokers, or they will set up a server in their home and do everything themselves. No market for a middle ground. Is that correct?

Oh, this could be very interesting. I'll hop on the waitlist to see how this is going to work.

I'd be happy to collaborate on this and determine if what you're building is what I'd want (as a potential consumer) or what my buddy will want (as a potential service provider).

If you're not already planning an infographic to show payment processing costs, I'd suggest comparing all combos of "wants to pay with {bitcoin,fiat}" and "want to be paid in {bitcoin,fiat}".

For example, if someone only accepts fiat and someone wants to pay in bitcoin, currently that means paying 1.5% to paypal to convert from BTC to fiat, paying fees to xfer via paypal (I think it's 2.5% + 49¢) and then the recipient getting their money ~3 business days later. If they can pay in BTC and have you convert it, I'm guessing you will likely do so for less than 3.5%. It makes the case for accepting BTC even if you don't want to have anything to do with it, and it seems like these people are part of your target market.