Yes, the market right now is bent toward large existing players. There is room for competition for Lyft and Uber for example. If you can find workarounds for regulatory obstacles.

All I got is to start a small business consulting, fixing and installing for small business. Did that on the side 12-years ago and it was amazing how fast business owners jumped when offered services for a reasonable price.

We could go on-call for a monthly fee. $200/mo. per customer stacks quickly. But you have to get a feel for your customers, set expectations and fire the skinflints. If you don’t have people skills, this is a non-starter. I got people skills, no business skills.

Been there, done that, know myself, not motivated enough. Give me a time and place to be, give me work, give me a paycheck and benefits, I’ll knock it out the park. But if I gotta get out of bed and knock doors, again, I got the people skills, but I can’t self motivate.

Create a Open Source project for something that bothers you personally and apply for one of the Open Collective, Nlnet, Prototype Fund, Techcultivation, …

A former colleague of mine started a farm 5 years ago. He wrote a few apps to help him with the process and even launched one to help reach customers directly.

I do not use iOS devices and could not take a look, but if you are curious, here is the app page: apps.apple.com/ca/app/arivon/id6742965675

And here is his LinkedIn page: linkedin.com/…/karunanithi-ranganadhan-65a60028/

More than a decade of programming. Few years of farming. I am wishing him success - as I might be asking for a framing job from him if this trend continues…

Help bring back the free and open internet before it’s completely lost.

Forget having a high salary, most of us will never have that at all or again after what they do to us.