There is no other software that makes sense to use. Excel is flexible enough that I can make notes where I need, easily copy/paste things. Create different ways of viewing the data relatively quickly to help inform decisions.

Scheduling software for complex scheduling needs in a therapy based business.

Something to replace excel.

OP - I don’t understand your business model.

Let’s say I sign up with you and pay for… I don’t know, 10 months? And then after 10 months I decide I want to just move the site over to my own hosting, can I do that?

Or is the site literally gatekept behind a monthly fee? In other words, it’s never MY site. I just get to rent it from you per month?

What about making sites for people using other hosting than your own? Do you work on wordpress or anything similar to that?

I’m someone who could/would love to be in the market for some basic web services. I have a wordpress site, but there are some things that are beyond my ability to manage. But I couldn’t even entertain hiring someone like you cause I don’t really understand what you do, what you offer, and what I get?

She has no intention, desire, or frankly, ability, to sue you, if she’s talking the way you are indicating.

Frankly, she doesn’t know what the fuck it would take to sue someone.

If she really wanted to get at you, she should just file a charge back. All the other talk is just plain bullshit raging.

How in the hell do you know what a replacement will cost?!? LOL

Here is the problem. Rampant inflation has caused there to be a fundamental inability for business owners and employees to really understand each other.

The business owner may not be able to afford to pay $25 per hour. And the job may not warrant that. And that does not mean the business is not viable, either. As I know that’s the go to of the antiwork crowd.

The problem isn’t wages, the problem is prices of rent, food, cars, and other necessities to live. But those entities that are ripping people off have made all of the antiwork crowd believe the problem is small businesses not paying enough.

Yea, that’s a good way of putting it. It really is lining up excuses for why she failed ahead of time.

Not a good mentality to have for a business owner.

If you need time and money and faith from other people, you’re not ready to do this.

You want to be a business owner? It’s ALL on you. You have to do it yourself, regardless of the help, or lack of help, from anyone else. Owning a business is HARD.

You want to succeed. Make decisions. Hard ones. Get to work. Do SOMETHING. Stop whining, complaining and feeling bad for yourself, it won’t help you at all. Anxiety in the way? Better suck it the fuck up, anxiety ain’t got no place in being a business owner. If you can’t figure out your anxiety, maybe you should work for someone else in a low stress job, because being a business owner isn’t ever low stress.

OP - I’m going to try to poke holes in your idea.

First of all - I don’t think there is as much market as you think there is for this.

People who have good jobs and lots of disposable income already have game consoles if they are willing to go out in public and game, most likely.

So you’re looking for people to either A. Not have consoles they want to play, or B. Want to pay for the socialization aspect.

I’ll ignore B for a second, as I think that is an actual market that could be tapped…

If it’s A, you’re talking about people who do NOT have a lot of money. In this thread you cited teenagers. You think Teens have that much money to be dropping 15 an hour to play video games? Doubtful in my opinion.

Let’s pretend you can get people in the door though.

First thing you said is you want 50 consoles setup. So that’s… $25,000 worth of consoles.

Then you need 50 tvs. So that’s another… what $25,000 worth of tvs?

I’m assuming you need furniture. Couches, nice chairs, just bean bags? Either way, that’s gotta be tens of thousands as well, right?

What about tv stands? Coffee tables? Whatever else you need? More thousands there, I’m assuming.

So you probably need ~ 100k at least to get all your equipment setup. And of course you’ll have to replace things over time (controllers, tv, cables, consoles, even couches/chairs).

Next you have to find a place. 50 couches setup with 50 tvs, spaced a part so that you aren’t all right on top of each other. And presumably in a good area, with lots of traffic?

Unless you’re rich, I assume you will be leasing. That’s gotta be a few thousand a month, AT LEAST for that, right?

So I think the first question is, do you have that much money?

Now let’s assume you do. How much staff do you need to run this place?

You cited making $3750 per day if you’re open 5 hours a day.

So you’ll be open what, 4pm to 9pm?

I think the first thing you need to realize is you will not be 100% booked the entire time you’re open. You may live in a city of 2 million people, but how many of those 2 million are within a 15 minute drive of where you’re going to open? How convenient is your location? How many peoplpe are working until 5, 6, 7 oclock? How many are kids that end up having football practice till 5?

Your market isn’t nearly as large as you think it is, I would guess.

Now what about electricity costs, internet, insurance, marketing costs etc. Those are going to eat into your profits as well.

Obviously the key here is going to be how many people you actually get in there. In a perfect world, sure, the math checks out. But obviously businesses don’t operate in a perfect world.

Do you have the initial money to start it up? Do you have the money to keep it going as your business starts slow? Do you have a marketing plan to actually get people in there? Do you have answers to the other questions I talked about…

To be honest, as someone who is a gamer… I have no interest to go to a play like that. It’s inconvenient. And as an adult gamer, I like to play after work when my wife doesn’t want my attention for 30 minutes here or there.

I don’t have time to drive 20 minutes to a cafe and then pay to play consoles that I probably already have at home, and then drive 20 minutes home at 7 at night on a work night when I’m tired and just want to be in my comfy clothes.

And I’d guess there are a lot more people like me than you are thinking.

You’re not an asshole, you might have some temper issues though. You might also not be a great fit to run a business.

If my employees are taking a day or less off, it doesn’t come out of their PTO. It’s free, so to speak.

How would an app know if the IRS is going to audit me in… 3 months?

lol why do you want to find them?