New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Self-host small business stack for a brewery?

Ask HN: Self-host small business stack for a brewery?
4 by levinb | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I'm nearing completion of a historical renovation to get a nano-brewery off the ground, where I would like to host hacker-friendly events. With both that in mind and personal preferences that reflect much of the caution found here on HN, I'd like to run as little customer data as possible through or to the major vendors' and marketing ecosystems. Anyone here have suggestions for a maintainable, self-hostable stack to cover typical brick-and-mortar SMB needs? I am a fairly proficient python programmer who's got a number of professional ML and personal RPi projects under my belt. I am not afraid to code, edit YAMLS, or write scripts to modify config files or a database - but have also learned the value of not reinventing the wheel. Here's some areas of interest: -Web presence (wordpress? pythonic alternative?) -Retail sales (just beer and schwag, no food) -Online sales (Stripe alternatives if I DIY, self-hosted shopify?) -Event calendaring & booking (we have a separate space on top of the taproom I'd like to host events in, like tech privacy talks!) -Smart Home - IoT devices for locks, cameras, environmental monitoring. (Home Assistant, NodeRed, something else?) It turns out if you want anything other than cash and old school CCTV, you immediately get into a vendor matrix I don't really want to opt myself and all my customers into. Most of us can't usually avoid credit cards, but beyond that, it would be nice to provide a modest refuge for my customers. Genuine thanks for any thoughts, especially from other HNers with businesses in the physical world - levinb

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