Hi, haven't been online for a few months so sorry if this has been discussed somewhere.
Just to give context: I live in a third-world country and often have ideas (a lot of times borrowed from first-world solutions) to improve things. For example, we have a ton of concerts/events over here but there is no easy digital ticketing system to just fix the mess of manual stamps and having to get your tickets physically beforehand. Since I've worked at both event management and ecommerce software, I kinda know how to build this.
But the problem with this and any idea I ever get always comes down to -> I don't want to charge for it. It just ruins all motivation for me, since I'm not actually creating anything, I'm just making things smoother in the middle. Why can't it just exist as a thing? I know I can't run it without money, I know I can't convince anyone to help me with the project without money. Especially in a country like mine where people just can't afford to work on things for free.
So, I wanted to ask if there are any resources or books I could study on financing a product in a sort of non-capitalist way? I'm sorry if I sound dumb I don't have much idea about this.
TL;DR: how to run a service/business without going broke and without feeling shit
You're not leeching from anybody though unless you're running a corporation. If a business wants you to make them a ticketing system so that they can generate more money, you're not leeching from a business, you're helping them. And regardless, the venue that's selling the tickets is mostly just a glorified landlord anyways that's just renting out the space to performers, who cares about them
Just don't try to engage in monopolistic practices that will hurt the consumers like Ticketmaster does
If you're just gonna work on this yourself, you'd be an artisan, not part of the bourgeoisie. I can't find any good sources online and can't remember which book Marx talks about this class but feel free to try and read more yourself
If you need more people to help you work on it, make a workers co-op so you're not leeching any other workers
I imagine the occupation of managing and maintaining a concert venue would be one that sticks around after the revolution. It sounds to me like a contribution to the culture. I'm sure there's horror involved when some venture capitalist systematically sucks blood out of it.
Oh yeah no way I can even be in a large enough position like ticketmaster for that. Our local scene is a lot smaller and I have no intentions to become some Corporate TM.
Also thanks for the detail, I'll look up on artisan.