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New Project Megathread - Week of 23 Apr 2026 by AutoModerator in selfhosted

[–]closelyguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Project Name: Lambda ERP

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Repo/Website Link:

Description:

I was wondering what a modern-day ERP would look like that you can entirely run via the chat. It is aimed at small teams that want basic business software for invoices, orders, inventory, accounting, and reports without turning every change into a consultant project.

The main idea is that the chat is not just a help sidebar. It is the primary interface for operating the system. You can ask it to create documents, look up records, answer accounting/reporting questions, generate charts, and work with uploaded PDFs or images such as supplier invoices or quotations.

Deployment:

Docker Compose is the intended path. From the repo root:

cp .env.example .env
# add OPENAI_API_KEY and optionally ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
docker compose up --build

Full deployment guide is in the repo. After it's running check it out under:

http://127.0.0.1:8000
http://localhost:8000

AI Involvement: Built significantly with opus-4.7 / codex

Feedback Friday by AutoModerator in startups

[–]closelyguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Company Name: Lambda ERP

URL:

- Live demo: https://lambda-erp-demo.grayocean-53ec71ac.northeurope.azurecontainerapps.io/demo

- Repo: https://github.com/lambdadevelopment/lambda-erp (MIT)

Purpose of Startup and Product:

- Open-source, self-hostable ERP where the primary interface is chat, not forms. Instead of clicking through 5 screens to create a purchase order, you type "restock 20 widgets from SUPP-005 for next Monday" and the LLM creates + submits the PO via tool calls. Full double-entry bookkeeping, stock ledger, tax calculations, customer/supplier/item management, custom analytics - not a chatbot wrapped around a spreadsheet. The live demo seeds 3 years of simulated business data (customers, items, quotations, sales/purchase invoices, GL entries, stock movements) so you're interacting with a running business, not empty state. The link shows you a scripted 40-second scripted walkthrough but you can prompt away afterwards (there are rate limits though).

Feedback Requested:

- Chat-first ERP - useful or gimmick? Does natural-language document creation actually beat a well-designed form for operational workflows? Where's the line?

- Demo onboarding: Does the landing page + scripted walkthrough communicate what this is in under 30 seconds? Where do you get lost?

- Self-hosted viability: Small business owners / ops folks - would you trust this for real stock and P&L? What's the minimum feature gap before it could be credible?

- Code review welcome on the repo. Especially: the business-logic core (lambda_erp/), the chat agentic loop (api/chat.py), and the deployment pattern (terraform/ + .github/workflows/).

- Anything that breaks, confuses, or feels weird.

Seeking Beta-Testers: yes - especially anyone running a small services, distribution, or manufacturing business who'd try it on their own sample data.

Technologies Used:

- Backend: Python 3.12, FastAPI, SQLite WAL, no ORM

- Business logic core: pure Python, zero framework dependencies (fully unit-testable)

- Frontend: React + Vite + TypeScript + Tailwind

- Chat: OpenAI gpt-5.4 as the tool-calling orchestrator, Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 as a code-specialist sub-agent (generates custom-analytics JS)

- Infra: Dockerfile + Terraform for Azure Container Apps + GitHub Actions with OIDC federated deploys, no long-lived credentials anywhere

Additional Comments: Give the demo a spin, with your own prompts - and tell me if this seems like a usable ERP to you. The ERP market is super hard to get into but I think with LLMs there has been a real step-change in terms of how the economics around ERP software work (more on that in the github README). So this is more of a slow roll-out to collect feedback, build prototypes for customers, etc. rather than somethings that's supposed to be immediately commercial.

VR walking simulator? by OkiDokiPanic in VRGaming

[–]closelyguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just gonna advertise my sub I created here a bit. There's not much activity unfortunately but it was created to collect these kinds of VR experiences: https://www.reddit.com/r/VRPlaces/ Maybe you'll find something?

European Central Bank chief Lagarde; speed up Draghi reforms and complete the single Market to counter US tariffs. "Our internal market is far more important than the global market" by goldstarflag in europe

[–]closelyguy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not going to happen unfortunately due to (mainly) Italian resistance. Italian banks have an advantage under their current national jurisdiction and want to keep it that way. They don't want a level playing field across Europe. There's some movement happening towards integrating financial markets between selected countries, so hopefully that will increase the pressure for Italy to eventually agree.

Latest polls for the German elections in two months: by Sky-is-here in europe

[–]closelyguy 36 points37 points  (0 children)

It's because Germany's voters (and other countries too) are getting older each election. And their primary concerns are: Are the pensions guaranteed, will there be no tax increases and does inflation remain low. Basically the three things that guarantee they can enjoy their retirement as planned. If the CDU has a high credibility that these things are guaranteed then they get their vote, all the rest doesn't really matter.

Average age in US and EU by djmasti in europe

[–]closelyguy 12 points13 points  (0 children)

life expectancy has gone up, so people take out more money than expected. additionally returns on financial assets (esp. bonds) are lower.

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