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Hah I work on this every single day. I'm building tiny web-servers for consumers over at https://pibox.io - we like to say were "distributing the web; no blockchain required". Customers love the product, but VCs hate it xD

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This is awesome. Seeing the mention of an App Store made me think of Umbrel [1] which is still in alpha but is a very approachable GUI for managing services running on your Raspberry.

[1]: https://umbrel.com/

Nice! We consider Umbrel a bit of a sister company :) They are more crypto focused, and we're more self-hosting focused, but we overlap in many ways. Umbrel software runs great on our hardware!

This is awesome! Your hardware looks fantastic, so pleased to see it had a Noctua fan. This is typically the kind of thing hardware manufacturers would try to save money on. Will definitely consider and spread the word about PiBox!

Thank you!! We splurged on the fan for sure - but it runs more or less silent and I love hearing the fan spin up and down when it boots - makes it feel like a proper server even though it's about the footprint of an iPhone :)

Good on you for taking the road less traveled! I don't have the guts to pursue 'real' entrepreneurship like yourself, but I appreciate those who do!

I would only say that sooner is better than later. During this startup I got married and had a child - and I don’t come from money or have a successful exit before - so chances are this is my one and only shot before I have to earn more money for my family.

Fear is a funny thing. Trick is to have it chase you down the path, instead of standing in your way.

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