If money was no object, maybe conduit going from every room to a central place so you can easily run whatever you want in the future.

This isn’t the best recommendation*, but I’ve personally had no issues with tons of devices and a large two building layout with 4 Google Wifi pucks.

• I gather that some of the other mesh solutions like Eero work better but I’ve never used them.

The Roborock vacuums can work without wifi but you lose the advanced functionality. Apparently you can flash them with an alternative firmware and get back the advanced functions with local only control.

https://valetudo.cloud/

A little bit. My company is too small to need my product but we use it even where we don’t need it in order to dogfood it.

I’m seeing a lot of QuickBooks answers. Is there a point where you might switch from a smaller player like Freshbooks or Wave and move to QuickBooks?

You’re trying to build what is called a two sided marketplace. It’s very difficult.

You need lots of jobseekers first to attract companies to post jobs. You need lots of jobs first to attract jobseekers. It’s basically impossible to start from zero.

A common strategy is to hack your way into having one side to acquire the other side. Companies like Uber paid drivers crazy rates when they signed up even though nobody was requesting rides on the platform yet.

For you, you can post jobs yourself. Go find relevant jobs and add them to your job board. Then you have something to market to jobseekers.

I like having local control too. My rule for smart lighting is it should still operate like dumb lighting.