I love the roadmap gauge on your website, can I steal it?
Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor
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Re: Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that that's a 100% accurate assessment, since well, it was designed by programmer. I haven't lost hope on stockor.com at all. I'm hoping that the open-source version will drive additional attention to stockor.com and I'll pick up more customers from it. The basic problem I've ran into is credibility with customers. They're understandably reluctant to trust their entire business to som…
You can build trust! Blogs, email, the usual advice all applies, but you may also consider getting a professional take on design or at least adopting a framework (Bootstrap/Foundation). People can spend plenty of time arguing the merits of those frameworks, but they were pretty much built for guys like you who are programmers and could use opinionated UI that's passed review in someone's design department. Use a them…
Well, I am using Bootstrap. But didn't want to have the Yet Another Bootstrap site look. Guess maybe I should have left well enough alone...
In fact the website is built entirely on bootstrap and Backbone.js Using my liquid_assets gem I've managed to make it searchable as well. I use the sass version of Bootstap and allow the user to modify the colors from the management side.
Re: Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor
#13Look very nice. Looks allot like Pimcore http://pimcore.com The demo stuff was laking good test data on most pages. That was my initial thought.
Thanks!
I've auto-generated the data using the Ruby Faker gem and the API. I would like to locate better product descriptions and images but haven't been able to find a good open source for them yet.
The scripts I used to do so are at: https://github.com/argosity/stockor-scripts
Re: Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor
#14I love the roadmap gauge on your website, can I steal it?
Awesome! Glad you liked it. I've opened sourced the website as well, it's all built as a static site using Ruhoh.rb and the source is at: https://github.com/argosity/stockor-dotorg
You'll probably want to check out the _root/index.html and stylesheets/os-progress.scss for the gauge.
Re: Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor
#15The demo doesn't look bad, but it seems to suffer from design-by-programmer. It also seems like the stockor.com website is more of an afterthought, even though it's a critical part of your sales funnel (other ERP vendors can afford to have a lousy website because they do face-to-face sales). You can make a ton of money in the ERP business, even if your product isn't very good. So if you're losing hope that stockor.co…
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that that's a 100% accurate assessment, since well, it was designed by programmer. I haven't lost hope on stockor.com at all. I'm hoping that the open-source version will drive additional attention to stockor.com and I'll pick up more customers from it. The basic problem I've ran into is credibility with customers. They're understandably reluctant to trust their entire business to som…
Retailers are a close-knit bunch.
You only need one "recognised name" to come on board, who does decent volumes, and you can bootstrap off the back of such fairly straightforwardly - you just have to work their network, by which I mean, be aware of who they know, who will be watching, and either reach out to them or make it a no-brainer for them to reach out to you.
Re: Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor
#16Interesting attempt. Key questions I would immediately ask an ERP vendor that I do not see answered on your homepage: - What kind of interfaces/APIs does Stockor provide? Both for in-house systems (analytics, whatever) as well as externals (EDIFACT, etc.). - Is there some sort of pricing engine to fully calculate an order? How flexible is it? I assume this is US only? If not, then what about languages, currencies, et…
Good points. I don't cover that at all on the landing page.
It is 100% API driven using a a JSON REST api. As part of the open-sourcing process I'll be documenting that, but it isn't currently documented at all.
The pricing engine is lacking compared to other ERP implementations. Right now it does per-customer pricing with quantity breaks, but it doesn't have the concept of pricing libraries like others do. I do have experience implementing those but just haven't gotten it done yet. I agree that'll be really important for larger enterprises.
It is US only at the moment, mainly because I have no experience with VAT and European accounting. If someone was willing to work with me on it to discuss how it all works that'd be awesome...
Re: Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor
#17do you think this can be used by a small scale manufacturing industry as an Internal ERP ? ( there no need for Store sort of thing ). Reason I am asking is that I had to do a very basic inventory management app for a friends mechanical industry, just generated some models in rails and used an admin panel gem to generate the app..
Re: Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor
#18do you think this can be used by a small scale manufacturing industry as an Internal ERP ? ( there no need for Store sort of thing ). Reason I am asking is that I had to do a very basic inventory management app for a friends mechanical industry, just generated some models in rails and used an admin panel gem to generate the app.. https://github.com/nighthawk-apps/sERP
It could be with a little more work. I don't currently support manufacturing, but do have kitting. You can have one SKU depend on multiple SKU's so that if one is ordered it'll place the sub SKUS as well.
For proper manufacturing we'd have to expand that to generate a build order and factor labor into the GL postings.
It's on my informal roadmap but no idea when/if it'll get done. If you're interested in sponsoring that, I'd love to talk! (nathan@argosity.com)
Re: Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor
#19Just curious, how much revenue it has generated up to date?
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#20Stockor was my favorite He-Man toy. He had pallet jacks for hands! I think his sold-separately vehicle was a shipping container.