Food and clothing are constantly consumed, and clothing is too trend-dependent, so food it is.
Not sure if it counts as "tech", but my retirement plans are to be making indie games. Just the weird, high risk stuff that you don't see out there.
Selling was fairly easy, but if you pay good wages, you get mediocre people. If you pay mediocre wages, you get terrible people. And with cheap coffee, we were cursed with either terrible people or working 14 hours a day for terrible profit.
The partners were almost as bad. The people we'd rent the spot from. The ones who moved the beans and sold the cups. The ones who handled disputes. It was just toil for most of them. I don't blame them; they're not getting rich either. At least in software, if you were willing to work 14 hours a day, you get peace.
Like imagine grow kits in cities growing essential produce and selling it right there.
I met some Mennonites who run a hydroponic operation that sells produce to high end restaurants. I was surprised how compact it was. It would be cool to figure out how to use robotics and vision, and partner up with a creative gardener who wants to trial and error and sell better tomato’s than I get at WF made locally.
WantonQuantum•5mo ago