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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.
22HN people shared it
12linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts

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    Frappe Open Source JavaScript Datatable
    4 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
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    Charts
    3 people · first shared 2018
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    Frappe Helpdesk: AGPL v3.0 Ticketing Web App
    2 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
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    Choosing your own pay, how does this work?
    2 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
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    Frappe
    2 people · first shared 2018
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    Erpnext
    2 people · first shared 2025
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    The Problem with Commercial Open Source
    1 people · 9 points · first shared 2021 · 5 comments on HN
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    Software as a Scam
    1 people · 8 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
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    Balancing the Costs of Count(*) and UX
    1 people · 6 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
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    Generating PDF on Server Side
    1 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
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    Beating Redis with a Dictionary and Redis
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
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    Indian Startup Ecosystem: Givers and Takers
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
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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
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

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