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Own the stack: run Carbon on your own infrastructure — managed in your own cloud account in one click (BYOC), on-prem, or fully air-gapped. ERP, MRP, MES and QMS on Postgres you own, source available, with an AGPL-3.0…

54 points•barbinbrad•7 days ago•29 comments•
#source#erp#mes#qms#manufacturing#manufacturing erp#open source#source manufacturing

29 comments

jwr7 days ago
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

barbinbrad7 days ago
there's a lot of good reasons, but the best is there's no perfect off the shelf ERP. things need to become business specific. open-source allows anyone to make the system specific to their business.
jwr6 days ago
Understood, and I would definitely agree!
majorchord7 days ago
Should we just name this layout/theme "claude" from now on?
barbinbrad7 days 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"
fragmede7 days ago
lol, wow. What else did they say?
puppycodes7 days ago
lol I had the same thought... embarrasing
barbinbrad7 days ago
embarrassed founder here. shipped an update to make it look less generic.
aetherspawn7 days 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.

barbinbrad7 days ago
you can run the community edition for free. there's enough in there to run a full manufacturing business.
wiradikusuma7 days ago
How does it compare to ERPNext? Feature-wise, tech stack-wise.
barbinbrad7 days ago
ERPNext is more general purpose, Carbon has a lot more for manufacturing.

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