Own Machine0.

What you'd own.

Every artifact below transfers to your accounts on day one. The whole engine.

• ●Machine0 brand, domain registrations, and NixOS community accounts
• ●Landing page, product copy, and core messaging framework
• ●Community seeding playbook for Discourse, Reddit, and Hacker News
• ●Year 1 financial model with 3-tier pricing structure
• ●Platform engineer buyer persona research and GTM strategy
• ●Free-to-paid upgrade conversion framework and onboarding flows

What Roll Digital builds for you.

Custom scope to take Machine0 from MVP shell to operating business.

• ▸Production backend API with FastAPI and Postgres database
• ▸Multi-tenant provisioning engine with Hetzner and Vultr NixOS integration
• ▸Stripe billing system across individual and team pricing tiers
• ▸Email and social login authentication with tenant isolation
• ▸Custom domain setup with automated SSL and TLS provisioning
• ▸Admin dashboard for customer management and infrastructure provisioning
• ▸Monitoring stack with uptime tracking and resource utilization dashboards
• ▸30-day customer success support and incident response

Why this could work.

NixOS communities are highly engaged early adopters who actively evangelize tools solving genuine infrastructure problems. The free tier grants low-friction adoption among capital-constrained startups, testing your reproducibility value proposition before paid conversion. Team plans unlock recurring revenue from consulting firms and lean DevOps teams managing multiple client projects. The broader ecosystem continues maturing as mid-market enterprises adopt NixOS for reproducibility standards.

What you'd risk.

Your core risk: NixOS power users are deeply DIY-oriented and can self-host on commodity cloud infrastructure for $5-10/mo, making your markup difficult to justify. Major cloud providers like AWS and GCP and VPS hosts like Hetzner are rapidly adding native NixOS support, commoditizing your reproducibility differentiator. You're targeting a sophisticated engineering audience that already self-hosts successfully, leaving viral expansion unlikely within this niche.

Who this fits.

The ideal owner is a platform engineering consultant or agency already embedded in NixOS communities, or a solo SaaS founder with deep infrastructure expertise and existing customer list. You need NixOS familiarity to credibly evangelize and rapid iteration speed to stay ahead of commoditization. Passive investors should skip this one.

Timeline.

From contract signing to operating business.

1. Day 1
   Brand, domain, playbooks, and founder research transfer to you
2. Week 1
   Backend API and multi-tenant provisioning engine development begins
3. Week 3
   Free tier launches on production infrastructure with Stripe
4. Week 6
   Custom domain provisioning and SSL automation fully operational
5. Day 90
   Production system live and initial paid customers onboarded

Pricing.

Three ways in, depending on how much you want to build yourself.