wprapido

By that I don't mean web-only. Desktop, web, mobile, embedded, systems, enterprise

I'm a web and software developer. Contracting and been running on and off various online businesses, with varying degrees of success. Just like everyone else, I had periods of feast and periods of famine.

A few days ago I was talking with a friend of mine who among other businesses in Ireland and Croatia runs a bar in Zagreb, Croatia. His reasoning behind running a bar is that the bar serves as a daily cash stream. Something definitely we all need and something that helps a great deal.

Anyway, do you have a side hustle like that, and what is it?

With bigtech treating customers and employees like crap, being involved in shady business practices, and whatnot, it's time to think about alternatives for their services.

Here are some alternatives I'm rather happy with:

Amazon (retail): Independent ecommerce stores as well as local and regional ecommerce websites such as Lazada

Amazon AWS: DigitalOcean, Hetzner, etc.

Google: Yandex for mail, Matomo for analytics, DuckDuckGo for search, Zoho for Docs, OwnCloud for Drive

PayPal: TransferWise, Stripe, Payoneer

What are yours?