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atari800
3y ago
My father owned a successful mobile home dealership for about 40 years. As a teenager, and later in college, I did grunt work (mostly manual labor) at the business in the summers. Later, in my mid-thirties, I left corporate software develop
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atari800
3y ago
I created a SaaS CRM/DMS for manufactured housing retailers ("mobile home" dealerships.) Monthly gross is about $4,000. Expenses other than my own time are $400 per month for the server. So about $3,600 a month net. The MH in
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Metafilter Is Close to Insolvency
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atari800
4y ago
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atari800
4y ago
I don't know about conditions anywhere in the world except the USA. But I've ridden across the USA, on different routes, multiple times. When bicycle touring in this country, you don't usually (almost never, in my case) do bi
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atari800
4y ago
"Riding on roads without dedicated full cycle lane sucks, period." Sounds like you live in a large city or something. I can ride 100 miles on rural country lanes where I live, and only see a handful of cars all day. Please don
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atari800
5y ago
I have a couple of SaaS products: Belt drive design tools for companies in the mechanical power transmission industry, and dealership management software for manufactured housing ("mobile home") retailers. Back end: - Windows Serv
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atari800
7y ago
There's almost nothing in the manufactured housing (AKA "mobile home", AKA "trailer" AKA "HUD-code home") industry. The industry experienced a severe contraction even before the Great Recession, declining
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atari800
8y ago
No. "Manufactured Home" has a specific, legal meaning in the USA. They are also referred to as "HUD Code" homes. "HUD Code" refers to the building code under which they are constructed. There are multi-section