Web Building
I take lots of inspiration from minimalist and practical ideas of work flow. I apply this to my website so that people can browse it without having to be bombarded with bloat that is high maintenance and often distracting. I enjoy interacting and creating with systems that are generally one and done, once made I don't have to put much more attention onto it and I can work on other projects while it stays productive in what it's designed to do. If you would like a well formatted website, with these principles in mind you can contact me to get started.
Online Storefront
Just your basic shopfront that will list a small description on the details of the item, a functional transactional system that has a credible fiscal third party entity that handles all sensitive banking data. If I could outsource this I would, but the information of my accounts and your bank account securely would be extremely difficult wouldn't be possible as there would be too many legal implications and almost zero guarantees for both parties.
POS for Small Businesses.
I have been in the service industry for a while, it's how I made most of my money in my first years of adult life. In this Traditionalistic Italian restaurant that I worked at, they made sure that service and authenticity was a priority, as the family that owned the restaurant knew that this would be what the restaurant would be known for; it's authentic Italian food made by real cultured Italian men, executed with quality service. I greatly admired the qualities of the upstanding Italians, most of their dishes, services, and atmosphere was simplistically well executed; and it all had good workflow, including their POS system that us servers had to use. We had a simple paper and pen to write down orders and had to ring it in on the computers, it wasn't outdated but other restaurants had newer systems. These newer systems I had to use at another job are still workable but they were prepackaged with unnecessary options that could not be optimized or were ignored by the managers that had installed them. Not to mention these were on portable phones where there is only a fraction of what our computers back at the Italian restaurant would display. Regardless of the equipment, this is a typical American burger restaurant where there would be 30-40 items on the menu with additional sides and customizations. Though this is a difference of culture and ideas, these are still systems to consider. Most freelancers, homesteaders, or other rural/small businesses do not care for anything more than what is useful, practical, and simple. I want to provide this service to people as I do not want to be encroached by proprietary systems that act as the middle man to the products I myself create. I'm a homesteader, programmer, and businessman. Systems like Shopify where people outsource them to host their online shop fronts take a cut in each sale. More local POSs, like Square, also take a percentage of your sales just to make a transaction at your local farmer’s market. They make it convenient for people that they don’t even know they’re being robbed. This has been a problem for direct-consume producers for millenia. Wendell Berry Farmer, philosopher, essayist; one of the most respected agricultural thinkers alive. Repeatedly argues that farmers are exploited by the market structure: “The farmer is asked to work for less and less, while the middlemen, processors, and distributors take more and more.” He says modern agriculture rewards agribusiness, not the producer. It will take you a day or two to learn to be your own middleman or processor, yes. But it liberates you financially and systemically. I plan to do this for myself, and provide it for others. We live in a time where it is far easier to market your own products and sell them without other people taxing you to make a living. People already pay enough taxes.