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With increasing automation/machine made everything i think "artisanal" ways of production is how we can carve out our niche and make a good and stress free at-our-own-pace living like the old Artists/Sculptors/Artisans of yore. This is a good way to live.

How can one do this in the Computer HW/SW business ?




Overall I think we're too commoditized to do this "generally". There needs to be a scarcity.

To be a scarcity is to chase things with high specialization and a relatively small niche.

It's actually not hard to do in SW/HW per se, find a really old language/hardware and become useful in it. Mainframes come to mind.


Right; i am looking for those sort of niche specializations where people are willing to pay good money eg; Mainframes/COBOL/Specialized MCUs/Unique Product/Maintenance etc.

However finding them is not easy, would love to have some leads i.e. websites/list of companies etc.


Page 19 of https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_002_beta2.pdf has an artisanal QR code, enjoy!


That's Neat!


You can try buiding and selling wood craft computer accessories - there might be a niche market for such things.




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