As a fellow ERP/MRP author/founder (PartsBox, specialized for electronics manufacturing), congratulations. These kinds of systems are very complex, much more so than it seems from the outside. Many people tend to think: "I could whip this up in a weekend." I also thought so 10 years ago when I started writing my own :-)
I do wonder about the value proposition of open sourcing the system, though. Apart from believing in open source and trying to do some good in the world, are there any practical reasons for you to maintain the system as open source? This is something that is very costly
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"
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.
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!
As a fellow ERP/MRP author/founder (PartsBox, specialized for electronics manufacturing), congratulations. These kinds of systems are very complex, much more so than it seems from the outside. Many people tend to think: "I could whip this up in a weekend." I also thought so 10 years ago when I started writing my own :-)
I do wonder about the value proposition of open sourcing the system, though. Apart from believing in open source and trying to do some good in the world, are there any practical reasons for you to maintain the system as open source? This is something that is very costly
How does it compare to ERPNext? Feature-wise, tech stack-wise.
Should we just name this layout/theme "claude" from now on?
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"
lol, wow. What else did they say?
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
lol I had the same thought... embarrasing
embarrassed founder here. shipped an update to make it look less generic.
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.
you can run the community edition for free. there's enough in there to run a full manufacturing business.
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!
most run on BYOC or managed hosting. but for the forks you can tell claude "merge upstream and fix the merge conflicts"
> merge upstream and fix the merge conflicts"
Is this software developed in that spirit - letting a probabilistic calculator randomly fix merge conflicts?
Sounds like a recipe for disaster. But then again, I’m not the manufacturer using this software.
But then again the original question seems strange as self-hosters have to manage their own upgrade by design.
Self-hosted upgrades can be tricky, indeed.
Looks good
One comment on the auto language translation: the french version is comically bad :)
I'd rather read it in english where the wording is (kinda, Claude is visible) more on point.
every ERP thread is a good thread!