Free course
Open-Source Business Stack for Disco Detox
A practical course on choosing, running, and sharing open-source business infrastructure for a digital-first practice.
What you'll learn
Disco Detox is a real digital wellness brand that sells downloadable products, hosts paid online workshops, runs outreach, and supports long-term consulting engagements. Through the fictional sample practice of Yoli Lara, learners map the tools behind a digital-enabled business and compare SaaS convenience with open-source control. By the end, learners understand what open-source alternatives exist for common solopreneur stacks, what infrastructure is actually involved, and when a single shared community deployment can become care infrastructure instead of just technical overhead.
Curriculum
Module 1 - Why Infrastructure Is a Business Practice
- The Disco Detox operating modelreading · 18 min
- SaaS, open source, and the real tradereading · 22 min
- From personal stack to shared care infrastructurereading · 24 min
Module 2 - The Public Layer: Website, Content, and Offers
- Website as home basereading · 22 min
- Publishing, blog, and search presencereading · 20 min
- Forms, intake, and consentreading · 22 min
Module 3 - Money, Products, Workshops, and Delivery
- Payments and checkout without pretending money is simplereading · 24 min
- Digital product fulfillmentreading · 22 min
- Paid workshops and live sessionsreading · 26 min
Module 4 - Relationships: CRM, Outreach, Email, and Community
- CRM as relational memoryreading · 25 min
- Email lists and consentful marketingreading · 23 min
- Community spaces without platform capturereading · 25 min
Module 5 - Operations: Projects, Automation, Docs, and Observability
- Projects and tasks as shared coordinationreading · 22 min
- Automation as connective tissuereading · 24 min
- Documentation and observabilityreading · 25 min
Module 6 - Architecture, Governance, and the Build Decision
- The community deployment blueprintreading · 28 min
- The infrastructure care budgetreading · 26 min
- Choosing your stack with integrityreading · 30 min
Your instructor
Zen Lara
Designer, organizer, and systems thinker working at the intersection of digital operations, somatic practice, and community infrastructure.
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