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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.

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    What HN says

    Commenters point to it as the home of Frappe and ERPNext, and describe ERPNext as a mature, fully open source ERP, unlike open core Odoo.

    Stats for nerds
    22HN people shared it
    22linked in comments
    60story points
    Jul 2026last shared
    2015people per year2026

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    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • solardevDec 2023

      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…

    • ____Sash---701_Sep 2019

      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

    • xet7Jun 2025

      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/server/LICENSE

      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

    • anandpdoshiJul 2015

      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.

    • ignoramousJul 2026

      > 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-work / https://archive.vn/o7NtE

      ... which ended being, well ... eventful: https://frappe.io/blog/culture/in-the-aftermath-of-exuberance-pick-your-own-pay-23 / https://archive.vn/BRaQc

    • rushabhMar 2019

      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.

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