Business Bootstrap

Hub for founders and ops teams setting up essential IT support systems and related org ops topics (there is no separate business-resources Antora site). The repo name says “business”; the scope is any organization — for-profit, nonprofit, or OSS collective. Capability areas hold the deep articles; the stack map and stage defaults stitch them together. Prefer hosted until ops cost or residency forces self-host. Not every area is day-one — follow Defaults by org stage.

Sibling path (not a capability area here): standing up your AI coding studio (Cursor skills, MCP, agent rules) is Vibe coding bootstrap. It often happens alongside early Business Bootstrap—especially solo / shipping—but it is not org inbox/vault/chat. Stage defaults and Chat call it out so you do not skip it while walking BB.

Capability areas

Area Start here

Email

Human vs product lanes, provider matrix, DMARC, bootstrap tutorial, personal Gmail / Cloudflare Routing gotchas

Scheduling

Cal.com hosted vs Cal.diy self-host

Design

Penpot (open) vs staying on Figma

Vault

Bitwarden cloud / official server / Vaultwarden

Chat

Hosted Slack/Discord vs self-hosted Mattermost (integrations, VPS matrix, object storage)

Org infra

Pulumi org infra repos and DNS for support hosts

Funding

OSS fiscal hosts, grants, sponsorships, subscriptions — map + OSS.Fund. On-site ask: donation ask ideas (canonical: Nonprofit Resources)

Business

Non-engineering ops home + stack map / stage defaults

Cross-cutting