Self hosted social networking and email platform that runs on Digital Ocean, OpenStack, etc. Total cost to user is around $5/mo hosting and $1/mo DNS for ad-free privacy-invasion-free Internet.<p>Ironic that you mention hosting resources, because in my view getting independent from those hosting services is itself the fundamental challenge.
I would love to set up a workspace near an academic Institution, targeted towards bootstrapping people interdisciplinary careers. I would love for it to take applicants and then try to match them with contracts.