Do you think something like containerisation could solve this problem?

Monokai Pro with the Octagon filter

Yeah I think you raise some really good points: Net profit between electricity bills and income from renting. I think if there's a service where people pay to compute on these devices and this payment is shared with people renting the devices. Then there can be a net positive income, provided multiple people can compute stuff on the same renter's hardware. Although, this might not work for heavy workloads at all. How much money exactly are you saving by running your stuff on other people's devices. Dedicated server space has become cheap enough that there's no need to perform these compute power renting shenanigans. But then the dedicated server space has a much larger carbon footprint, and costs a lot on upkeep and maintenance. About the security issue, how much of it do you think can be solved by encryption and/or containerisation? Thank you for answering

I mean looking at a job doesn't make me as excited as wanting to start my own company

I guess you could write that CPU intensive code in C++/Go/Rust etc and then just call its binary from your electron app. If you're feeling smart, maybe try FFI

Discourse has a similar model where the Discourse app is open source, but they provide paid services for their app. I am looking for advice on this topic myself, thanks for asking :)

Looks great! How do you manage the dependencies for Go?

I think by nodejs OP means a laravel equivalent run on nodejs (express?)

I think it's impossible to write completely bug free software. Bugs are inevitable, how the company deals with them, is what defines their culture imo

I suppose people don't want another rails-like framework. They want different tools for different jobs (people like using Golang for building web servers)