The two ideas in one minute each
Idea 1 · existing
Vome · VomeHome
Managed Home Assistant hosting
A hosted Home Assistant instance, one per household,
connected to the home over an outbound WireGuard tunnel.
Customers get the same Home Assistant the enthusiasts run
— without buying a home server, opening ports or
learning Linux. Built in Sweden, ready to launch, not
yet trading.
- Subscription, 89–349 SEK/month (€8–€30) per household.
- Standard HA — every integration, blueprint and HACS module works unchanged.
- Two-way portable: customers can boot a backup onto a local Pi at any time.
- Small open-source companion (VomeSync) sits alongside the core hosted product.
Idea 2 · new
Nyvyn & VomeHire
A Swedish venue, and the SaaS that runs it
I own a disused cinema in Sweden. I'd like to bring it back
into use as a flexible venue for hire — meetings,
screenings, recordings, podcasts — operated mostly
without staff. The booking and automation layer that makes
that practical is itself a product (VomeHire), for any
small venue owner who'd rather not sit behind a desk.
- Nyvyn — the cinema. Per-hour and per-package hire, ~400–1,200 SEK/hour depending on use.
- VomeHire — SaaS for venue owners: bookings, payments, access, climate, AV presets, service packages.
- Built on the same Home Assistant DNA as VomeHome — the on-site control layer is HA.
- Nyvyn is the first customer and showcase; VomeHire scales beyond it.
How they relate
The two ventures sit comfortably under the Vome brand and share a
lot of technical DNA, while pointing at different customers and
price points. Nothing forces them to launch in lock-step — either
can go first — but the work done on one materially helps the
other.
Vome AB — Swedish aktiebolag, to be incorporated
├─ VomeHome — managed Home Assistant for households (SaaS, lead product)
├─ VomeHire — booking & operations SaaS for small venues
├─ VomeSync — open-source companion: multi-home / multi-room switch networks
└─ shared platform — HAOS / WireGuard tunnels / Stripe / Auth0 / portal
Nyvyn — owner-operated cinema venue (separate trading name)
└─ first paying customer / public showcase for VomeHire
What unites them. Both products rely on the same
"Home Assistant + automation on the customer's premises + a
hosted portal in front of it" architecture. Building one of the
two pays off most of the engineering for the other. The
differences are who the customer is (household vs. venue
owner), what the on-site box does (read sensors vs. drive the
room), and how money is collected (subscription vs. subscription
+ booking fees).
Things to discuss at NyföretagarCentrum
- Structure. Should Nyvyn live inside Vome AB, or as a separate trading entity that's a customer of Vome? Probably the latter, so the cinema can take property-flavoured grants without dragging the SaaS in.
- Order of operations. Which to launch first — VomeHome, Nyvyn, or VomeHire? My current bias: Nyvyn opens first (gives VomeHire something to refine on); VomeHome launches in parallel because it's already feature-complete.
- Funding mix. Bootstrap or friends round for each? Are there better-suited Swedish instruments (Almi mikrolån, Vinnova Innovativa start-ups, EU local-development) for the cinema versus the SaaS?
- Cinema specifics. Heating, accessibility, licence to serve coffee/beer, fire and insurance. What's the realistic minimum to open responsibly?
- Co-marketing. A Swedish-language site for VomeHire (with Nyvyn as the case study) would land well with similar small venue owners. Worth doing in parallel with the English deck.
- Risks I'm not seeing. Anything obvious to a small-business advisor that would change the order I'd do things in?