So we’re starting a general contractor company and i I’m wondering if anyone else did that and had general advice? Its with someone else that is not really technology savy.

Currently we’re using:

  • WordPress for website
  • OpenProject for project related task
  • InvoiceNinja for invoice purposes

Any advice and comments would be appreciated!

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    nginx Popular HTTP server

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  • peaceb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    Will you have an infra team to support these apps? If the answer is no, I would self host anything business critical.

      • peaceb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        If they aren’t critical to the business, have a blast with it. But when the downed services prevent or distract from the invoiceable work, that is a problem.

  • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.frEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I can recommend some stuff I’ve been using myself :

    • Dolibarr as an ERP + CRM : requires some work to configure initially. As most (if not all) features are disabled by default, it requires enabling them based on what you need. It also has a marketplace with a bunch of modules you can buy
    • Gitea to manage codebases for customer projects. It can also do CI but I’ve not looked into it yet
    • Prometheus and its ecosystem (mostly promtail and grafana) for monitoring and alerting
    • docker mail server : makes it quite easy to self host a full mail server. The guides in their doc made it painless for me to configure dmarc/SPF/other stuff that make e-mail notoriously hard to host
    • Cal.com as a self hostable alternative to calendly
    • Authentik for single sign-on and centralized permission management
    • plausible for lightweight analytics
    • a mix of wireguard, iptables and nginx to basically achieve the same as cloudflare proxying and tunnels

    I design, deploy and maintain such infrastructures for my own customers, so feel free to DM me with more details about your business if you need help with this