Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS

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23 points | by barbinbrad 5 hours ago

6 comments

  • wiradikusuma 22 minutes ago
    How does it compare to ERPNext? Feature-wise, tech stack-wise.
  • aetherspawn 4 hours ago
    I understand the need to make money, but hardly any open source software is free anymore even if you host it yourself. And this one doesn’t list the price which feels kinda cagey (get a license links to book a sales call).

    It’s nice that it’s open source, thank you. I just wish that Mattermost et al didn’t open Pandora’s box with this one.

    • barbinbrad 2 hours ago
      you can run the community edition for free. there's enough in there to run a full manufacturing business.
  • Overdrivr 2 hours ago
    How do you handle the challenge of getting self-hosted customers to upgrade? I'm guessing a lot of self-hosted instances end up running fairly customized versions of your product.

    Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Bonx (bonx.com). Genuinely curious — congrats on what you've built, and best of luck!

    • barbinbrad 2 hours ago
      most run on BYOC or managed hosting. but for the forks you can tell claude "merge upstream and fix the merge conflicts"
  • majorchord 4 hours ago
    Should we just name this layout/theme "claude" from now on?
    • barbinbrad 4 hours ago
      founder here. extremely accurate comment. we had a customer send us this website recently. they said "we think you need a better website, we made this with claude"
      • fragmede 4 hours ago
        lol, wow. What else did they say?
        • barbinbrad 4 hours ago
          they're awesome. we highly value their opinion. they were the ones who gave me the confidence to open source it

          https://minimal.tech -- they build the whole stack from PCB to hardware to wiring to mechanical assembly to telematics software themselves

    • puppycodes 3 hours ago
      lol I had the same thought... embarrasing
      • barbinbrad 2 hours ago
        embarrassed founder here. shipped an update to make it look less generic.
  • calvinmorrison 4 hours ago
    every ERP thread is a good thread!
  • qwend 41 minutes ago
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