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!
Just use whatever works best for you. Just make sure there is a way you can easily export data from the tool in case you need to migrate to something else in the future.
Second this, whatever you pick never let someone else “own” your data because then they own your company. If you cant export data freely so it can be imported into another system, then its not yours.
Get someone with strong IT knowledge. Don’t try to do it yourself as it will backfire.
At home vs. for work are very different. At home, I self host as much as I can. At work, I use as many managed services as I can. Especially databases.
To each their own I guess, databases are ridiculously expensive when managed and I always self host.
Will you have an infra team to support these apps? If the answer is no, I would self host anything business critical.
A team? For what OP described, all you need is one person
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.
Odoo.com is very powerful and can handle most business needs.