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Frappe Blog
frappe.io · Company blog · on HN since 2014
The team behind the Frappe web framework and ERPNext open source ERP posts about their tools and business model.
What HN saysCommenters point to it as the home of Frappe and ERPNext, and describe ERPNext as a mature, fully open source ERP, unlike open core Odoo.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Frappe Open Source JavaScript Datatable4 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 2Frappe: A Full Stack Web Framework Using Python, JS, and MariaDB3 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 3Charts3 people · first shared 2018
- 4Frappe Helpdesk: AGPL v3.0 Ticketing Web App2 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 5Choosing your own pay, how does this work?2 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 6Frappe2 people · first shared 2018
- 7Erpnext2 people · first shared 2025
- 8The Problem with Commercial Open Source1 people · 9 points · first shared 2021 · 5 comments on HN
- 9Software as a Scam1 people · 8 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 10Balancing the Costs of Count(*) and UX1 people · 6 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 11Generating PDF on Server Side1 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 12If You Wish to Understand Frappe's Scheduler, You Must First Invent the U1 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 13Beating Redis with a Dictionary and Redis1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 14Indian Startup Ecosystem: Givers and Takers1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 15Show HN: Frappe Builder – Open Source Web Page Editing and Publishing1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
dinu99 · 2025-02-27
Looks nice, congratulations. Can you add knowledgebase section? I'm looking for an alternative to freshdesk/zendesk. I would recommend monetizing this via hosted service like https://frappe.io/ does with ERPNext project.
ofrzeta · 2020-05-06
From the same people who also made ERPNext, "the world's best 100% open source ERP" which was built in their own (open source) web framework called ... Frappe https://frappe.io/frappe
rushabh · 2019-03-22
Frappe Accounting is an electron based app exactly for this (GPL v3). We have pushed an alpha version and would love to find collaborators. Out of the box you can setup chart of accounts, make bills, payments, get basic accounting reports.
https://github.com/frappe/accounting
https://frappe.io/accounting
Anyone willing to collaborate, please drop me a mail.
anandpdoshi · 2015-07-01
Disclaimer: I am one of the developers that built this.
Try Frappe Framework (https://frappe.io). We have received feedback that it is really good to quickly build internal projects or prototypes.
Also ERPNext (https://ERPNext.com) is an open source erp that is feature rich and has a good UI. It can help any startup to manage their business without resorting to complicated excel sheets based management.
unmole · 2026-01-04
I don't have anything against Odoo but it's more accurately desribed as open core.
ERPNext on the other hand is fairly mature and fully open source: https://frappe.io/erpnext
fuzztester · 2025-12-22
How are Swift and Rust very similar? I can search, but want to hear your opinion.
And congrats on starting a language project, even if Just for Fun (Linux). ;)
https://frappe.io/blog/book-reviews/just-for-fun-a-book-on-linus-torva…
thirdsun · 2018-06-13
In addition to the alternatives already mentioned I really like https://frappe.io/charts
solardev · 2023-12-07
As a frontend dev who also works in UX and graphics from time to time, I find it helpful to be able to do both, looking at SVGs as both a vector graphics format and a human-readable XML. IME the workflow depends more on whether any SVG is meant to be illustrative (like art) or quantitative (like charts) or interactive and animated/mutable (like a game).
For something like this bell example (https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/bell), you can certainly hand-code it if you're really math-inclined and can estimate the formulas of curves just by looking at them, but for us mere mortals, it's easier to just draw out the curves in a graphics app then export as an SVG. And for things like the ringer (is that what you call it? the orange ball thing at the bottom of the bell that strikes the bell to make the sound), being able to visually draw it on a canvas, change its size, drag it around and play with its colors and dimensions, etc. is really helpful. Figma is fine for simpler graphics, but it's really more of a UX tool than a graphic design tool, and Illustrator is a lot more powerful. Inkscape is a FOSS option.
In other circumstances, though, manipulating the SVG XML directly is also very helpful. Let's say you want to programatically generate a bar chart. If you have a big dataset, it's going to take a designer forever to manually plot them and change them every time the data changes. But it's easy for a dev to use Javascript (or any language) to draw each rectangle, programmatically…
hit8run · 2020-10-15
Reminds me of https://frappe.io/datatable
ignoramous · 2026-07-16
> Salaries of every employee: https://buffer.com/salaries
Reminds me of Frappe (ERPNext) letting employees choose their own pay: https://frappe.io/blog/culture/choosing-your-own-pay-how-does-this-wor… / https://archive.vn/o7NtE
... which ended being, well ... eventful: https://frappe.io/blog/culture/in-the-aftermath-of-exuberance-pick-you… / https://archive.vn/BRaQc
xet7 · 2025-06-03
a) Nextcloud
b) AFFiNE https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE but check some part of server license, what is allowed: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE/blob/canary/packages/backend/se…
c) Frappe:
https://frappe.io/erpnext
https://frappe.io/framework
d) Odoo https://www.odoo.com
e) Sandstorm https://sandstorm.org , although WeKan is old version, I try to update it sometime
f) WeKan with webhooks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165008 with RocketChat Community Edition https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/RocketChat with Jypyter: https://jupyter.org
____Sash---701_ · 2019-09-06
The last few hours: (React Dev)
Apache ECharts - https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html
React Chart XKCD - https://github.com/obiwankenoobi/chart.xkcd-react
React Cookie Consent - https://github.com/Mastermindzh/react-cookie-consent
AnimeJS - https://animejs.com/
Quill - text editor - https://github.com/quilljs/quill
Nprogress - slim progress bar - https://github.com/rstacruz/nprogress
Marktext - desktop app - https://github.com/marktext/marktext
React Color Picker - http://casesandberg.github.io/react-color/
React Leaflet Search - https://github.com/tumerorkun/react-leaflet-search/issues/7
Awesome Remote Jobs - https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-boards
JS Snippets - (add) - https://github.com/kimschles/snippet-library/blob/master/arrays.js
FullStack AI - https://github.com/xadrianzetx/fullstack.ai
Frappe Charts - https://frappe.io/charts