>>lucadi+(OP)
Operational maturity - small-to-medium sized businesses will often treat things like their oncall as an afterthought as they grow, leading to every team doing things differently & chronically burnt out individual "heroes" taking on too much of the burden.

Large corporations are able to allocate dedicated FTEs to tackle this and standardise their processes around best practices. Things like the ability to staff "follow-the-sun" rotations that just aren't feasible at smaller scales.

I'm building Rezible (https://github.com/rezible/rezible) to address this. The aim is to provide an "oncall on rails" experience for teams, with best practices encoded into the product for engineers to follow.

>>lucadi+(OP)
> What critical operational capabilities are small businesses currently lacking?

ERP / Accounting + Finance + Corporate Treasury integration (with ILP Interledger)

/? ERP accounting site:news.ycombinator.com site: github.com https://www.google.com/search?q=erp+accounting+site%3Anews.y...

/? ERP https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

/? SMB https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

>>Foobar+Rc
Re: IAM cost workarounds in SMBs, SAML / Oauth2/OIDC / LDAP:

From "Show HN: Skip the SSO Tax, access your user data with OSS" >>35529042 :

glim: https://github.com/doncicuto/glim

"Proxy LDAP to limit scope of access #60" https://github.com/doncicuto/glim/issues/60

glauth: https://github.com/glauth/glauth

slapd-sql: https://linux.die.net/man/5/slapd-sql

gitlab-ce-ldap-sync (PHP) https://github.com/Adambean/gitlab-ce-ldap-sync

Open Source SSO for SMB

>>westur+gx
"Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source" >>41110850 :

ssoready: https://github.com/ssoready/ssoready

>>lucadi+(OP)
> "Develop tools that help small businesses operate at the same level as large corporations"

This goal sounds soooo wrong in sooo many ways. How 'large corporations' operate is not a good thing to emulate.

I have worked in this space for +25 years and even touched some government, and the single best thing I see is to remove something made for `large corporations` and replace it with something way simpler.

I even live from it, my main app (https://www.bestsellerapp.net) is basically a re-made front-end for take orders and invoices for several ERPs. People pay me for DON'T use the entry forms of those ERPs, go figure!.

In fact, if you wanna destroy super-fast a small business make it adopt some big 'large corporations' tech or process and see how things collapse, be this an ERP (the biggest culprit), micro-services, kubernetes or whatever.

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But let's be charitable and assume here 'same level as large corporations' is more like a ideal thing than a actual thing.

I have said before than a small company needs all, so everything you see as a tool for a big company, a small one needs it, but simpler and better integrated.

They, certainly not need multi-cluster,multi-node things. Single-server + backups and that is all.

Good examples of this stuff:

* Access, if it were good

* Visual FoxPro, but modern

* Integrated log, metrics, alert

* Metabase or similar for dashboarding

* An orchestration tool for ETL, but tailored for this space

Probably something actually good from big companies that is missing here is a good way to deploy, rebuild, install the OS + APP in a consistent way, like NixOS.

>>atomsa+6B
(shameless plug) maybe it was us?

https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx

>>lucadi+(OP)
Not sure exactly what you have in mind as a solution for small businesses, but I’ve been working on enabling small businesses to achieve a high level of customization with minimal effort by leveraging Google Sheets and the Google Apps Script environment.

You can check out my work here: https://www.centask.com/