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Indie Catastrophe - when the bus factor is you

The chances that you will die in the next year are very, very slim. As are the chances that your house will burn down. But they're not zero.

What happens to your indie business when disaster hits? What does this mean for your loved ones? Your co-founder? Your customers? Can your business recover, with you or without you?

If you're a solopreneur, or you have a small bootstrapped business, so many aspects of your business are tied to you personally. Your email accounts, your passwords, your bank accounts and cards, your hosting setups, your domain names, your customer support systems, your backups. What happens when you can no longer manage those?

On this site, we will look into 3 levels of catastrophes:

Technical Catastrophe Temporary Incapacitated Permanent Incapacitated

We also propose a number of challenges to help you prepare for these scenarios.