I've mostly done this....I get bread/butter from freelance, I have ADHD which gives me some major motivation issues already but depression/anxiety/uncertainty and maybe just burnout have led me to go very slow w/ work. I have one client who I absolutely love cause she's not pushy, she's a developer too, and I'm only a cog in their freelance outsourcing - a good one cause she seems to appreciate my work, but I'm not the only resource so basically I can work as much/little, and in 2021 it's been a rough year financially... I've had a lot of time to basically think about what I want to do....
I've come to the conclusion I want to build OS software for co-ops and repurpose as open core for non-co-ops. Think ERP systems that manage point pools for customers, affiliates, workers, etc that can be traded for voting power, and dividends from profits from a network of syndicated worker-owned co-ops....
Example: You work at a WO-pharmacy, and shop at WO-grocery store... you earn x points per hour worked, and x points per dollar spent (upto 10k/annual to prevent whales), perhaps there's a crypto token aspect too that maybe pays out some living dividend too... after you meet a yearly minimum say 500 hours worked, volunteered, or spent you are a 'member' and get full benefits (think like costco) which might include health insurance (eventual goal), equal share of revenue/gains that aren't earmarked for further growth and salaries--equal by point I mean, so each point is 1 share, and if there's 30k in there, and 30k shares and you own 1k shares you get 1k...but points could be syndicated meaning shared across related orgs through partnerships, or single to that co-op, etc... it depends on what they want to do, people still have autonomy. Essentially it's like more centralized DAO's that are networked and have more rules in place to ensure just ownership of more tokens (cash) doesn't give undue power.
Co-ops can set hierarchy choices like do managers/execs maybe get more points/weights based on tenure, level, or is it all equal across the board?
The ERP should have an easy product/inventory listing/tracking thing with federated marketplace... think shopify but products can be imported from other shopify customers into your store, and it feels a bit more like Amazon or Ebay, and you as the store owner might get an affiliate commission.... eventually we can build an fBA like solution so marketplace members can also charge really cheap shipping...to actually compete w/ amazon...
Mom and pops, restaurants, uber-drivers will all have tie-ins to the syndicates so basically small companies and co-ops all can thrive, and big corps can use some of our tools too (but they'll have to pay a premium)... monetization model will mostly be some sort of processing type fee to make nickles and dimes per transaction to pay our devs to continue expanding and things, or perhaps we get shares or something....
I also want to build an intentional community/eco-village with a glamping camp (that is managed/shared by the residents), with earthbag/container homes that are buried... part of me really wants to make this like a big medevil fortress or keep, and go all prepper/doomsday with plenty of rain catching devices, vertical farming, and solar panels.... but I'm not Elon Musk or a 6 figure earner.
Currently I'm working more on a SaaS starter for laravel, as a footbridge to everything else. Basically taking laravel jetstream, adding multi-tenancy (beyond teams but like orgs, which can have multiple teams, and members can belong to multiple orgs, with multiple polymorphic profiles (Employee, Vendor, Consumer, as general pre-configured types and unlimited scaling on types depending on model)...
Also plenty of easy components and a drag/drop tool to help combine layouts that can automatically make views in laravel so basically it's very low-code, and for us backend guys it's a lot easier to launch side projects if we don't need to worry about ui...
I got off on an ADHD tangent here, but my point is... sometimes its better to sacrifice and find something worth growing that can maybe be a side project or something -- if you can get to ramen mrr especially, than it is to work for someone else, and the more people who leave corporate America the higher wages will be for everyone because that drives up demand and lowers supply, so it's a win/win for my ideologies.