# Small tech

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## What Jamie wrote

I like the Small Tech term. Related would be the Indie Web as well, or at least a tangent. 

> Role models matter. So I made a list of small companies that I admire. Neither giants nor startups - just people making a living writing software on their own terms.

I use three of these, and [tarsnap](https://www.tarsnap.com) I hadn't heard of but sounds very good. I would add to this list [micro.blog](https://micro.blog), [blot](https://blot.im), and [Buttondown](https://buttondown.email).

Now, for business use these [solopreneur](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=solopreneur) services may not be great solutions. When just one person runs the service you cannot expect 24x7 support for example. But I have biased my personal services toward these. All of the services I use to publish my blog, send my newsletter, and manage my bookmarks are all solo companies.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT159: Weekly Thing #159 / 911 Outage, Small Tech, Workflows](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/159/), Recommended Links

## Mentions

- [Buttondown](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e6ef753e1282/) (buttondown.email, January 31, 2019)

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