Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system
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#2Getting people to use the terminal to do things instead of the bloatware produced by Google/Microsoft tools is almost impossible...
I live in the terminal, but most people in my company, including developers rather stay away from it
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#3I’d be interested in defining my business using a DSL but then ultimately I’d want that to be translated into a UI.
I’d love to simply map all the relationships between stock, assets, tools like invoicing, APIs all in a place like this.
But I have to agree I think CLI alone would result in it being usable by only me.
EDIT: just wanted to add I’m interested in where this project goes.
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#4Looks ambitious but previous attempts at “Ops as Code” haven’t been promising.
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#5Getting people to use the terminal to do things instead of the bloatware produced by Google/Microsoft tools is almost impossible... I live in the terminal, but most people in my company, including developers rather stay away from it
Yes I agree.
My guess is that the console is a much better and natural UI because it goes in one direction and is less confusing and productive for humans.
In the end we seems to move back to it through the chatbot paradigm, because it is in the end a console...
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#6I’d be interested in defining my business using a DSL but then ultimately I’d want that to be translated into a UI. I’d love to simply map all the relationships between stock, assets, tools like invoicing, APIs all in a place like this. But I have to agree I think CLI alone would result in it being usable by only me. EDIT: just wanted to add I’m interested in where this project goes.
I think that's fair. I'm personally happy with a text editor + CLI, but can acknowledge that is not enough for broader adoption.
The project is structured as libraries such that you could build an editor separately, but it's not something that has taken priority for me (as the only user, so far).
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#7Getting people to use the terminal to do things instead of the bloatware produced by Google/Microsoft tools is almost impossible... I live in the terminal, but most people in my company, including developers rather stay away from it
Yes I agree. My guess is that the console is a much better and natural UI because it goes in one direction and is less confusing and productive for humans. In the end we seems to move back to it through the chatbot paradigm, because it is in the end a console...
It's an interesting trend. With the push for chatbot-based interactions, CLIs and plain text representations are making a bit of a comeback, since LLMs interface with those more easily than UIs.
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#8This is interesting, very similar to a project I am working on, which is a cli asset manager for a small repair shop. Basically, mine keeps track of service tickets, customers and inventory while being query-able to help identify trends in problem products or recall records for warranty disputes, etc. It's just a silly little project I started in my spare time because I got fed up with having to open up three pieces of software with clunky UIs and frequent crashes to accomplish what should be fairly simple and straight-forward tracking and analysis. My biggest hurdle was getting it to export to a nice looking PDF that could be emailed or printed later.
While mine is functional, yours looks A LOT more refined, so I think I will play around with it and see if I can't adapt it to my needs.
I try to work in the terminal as much as I can since that's where I'm most comfortable, but when it comes to business software like CRMs, HRMs or ERPs, especially geared toward smaller shops, the selection for terminal-based options is severely lacking.
Re: Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system
#9Looks ambitious but previous attempts at “Ops as Code” haven’t been promising.
Healthy skepticism. I think firm differs from ops as code in the sense that it focuses on the structural aspects and representing the people-ops side in a way that machines can interact with too.
To be clear, I'm trialing this out in my own small business. Whether it's ergonomic enough to add value and whether it's scalable, I don't know yet. So far, so good, though.
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#10I love the idea. More power to text-based tools, more power to the CLI.
But ... why invent a new file format? Why not just make in JSON, so it is easier to integrate in other toolchains (e.g. having a python script add customers based on external APIs without having to write your own output generator)?