Free is lovely. Yet I’m sometimes willing to pay to get extra service or just to keep a favorite vendor going.
I’m mildly infuriated when there is no upgrade in service from free tier to paid tier. Makes me feel retroactively stupid.
Like when Doxy.me (medical televideo site with too many trackers) offered no service improvement to paid customers at the beginning of the pandemic.
Like when I decide to upgrade from free Zapier.com to get more “tasks” per month – then my Zaps immediately proceeded to not run for 2 days.
Like when I move up from free tier with IFTTT to get more than two applets, and they still take hours to run.
Yeah – I’m working on learning to implement free code from GitHub but come on guys – I’m not a programmer and at least ought to be able to buy this stuff while I learn!
It might help to let us know what your immediate needs are and then we could make recommendations. I am an open source, Linux, and BSD guy and have been working with these systems for close to 25 years. If you need solution, I can probably come up with one for you to try that won’t be terribly difficult to implement with a little patience.
HousePanther – That is very nice of you. I’m game to give this a (slow) go given I’m working 50+ hours per week as a psychotherapist.
Already on my radar – an rss feed to lemmy community posting robot (name is at home and can’t find it right now – it is on GitHub).
Anything that takes emails or rss feeds and converts them to Mastodon or Lemmy posts.
Anything that lets me run my own telehealth 2-way video server. I’ll have to sign a HIPAA BAA (medical privacy) agreement with vendors and server farms. Or run it at home.
I’d highly recommend not running your own server for tele-health the potential liability if your server were hacked is very high. Keeping compliance is and managing risk/liability would be a full time job by themselves for that.