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Posts on Business

Collected posts on Business — from our practice running fleets of Home Assistant instances.

June 2, 2026 · 10 min read · Market · Encouragement

A Home Assistant business: can you build a living on open source?

No vendor behind you, forever at the customer site, updates that wreck everything — the three big fears about going pro with Home Assistant. Why WordPress carried exactly the same fears and still spawned an entire service industry.

DO Denny Ovčar

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Profession · Market

May 31, 2026 · 10 min read · Profession · Market

What does a Home Assistant integrator actually do? Job profile, tools, business models

In German-speaking Europe "Home Assistant integrator" is barely an established profession — and that is exactly the opportunity. Who looks after HA for a living, what they do day to day, the tools they reach for, how they get paid.

DO Denny Ovčar

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