So we’re starting a general contractor company and i I’m wondering if anyone else did that and had general advice? Its with someone else that is not really technology savy.

Currently we’re using:

  • WordPress for website
  • OpenProject for project related task
  • InvoiceNinja for invoice purposes

Any advice and comments would be appreciated!

  • @pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr
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    14 months ago

    I can recommend some stuff I’ve been using myself :

    • Dolibarr as an ERP + CRM : requires some work to configure initially. As most (if not all) features are disabled by default, it requires enabling them based on what you need. It also has a marketplace with a bunch of modules you can buy
    • Gitea to manage codebases for customer projects. It can also do CI but I’ve not looked into it yet
    • Prometheus and its ecosystem (mostly promtail and grafana) for monitoring and alerting
    • docker mail server : makes it quite easy to self host a full mail server. The guides in their doc made it painless for me to configure dmarc/SPF/other stuff that make e-mail notoriously hard to host
    • Cal.com as a self hostable alternative to calendly
    • Authentik for single sign-on and centralized permission management
    • plausible for lightweight analytics
    • a mix of wireguard, iptables and nginx to basically achieve the same as cloudflare proxying and tunnels

    I design, deploy and maintain such infrastructures for my own customers, so feel free to DM me with more details about your business if you need help with this