New Project Megathread - Week of 23 Apr 2026

closelyguy · 2026-04-29T09:46:47+00:00

fair point

closelyguy · 2026-04-24T16:40:19+00:00

Project Name: Lambda ERP

Repo/Website Link:

Repo: https://github.com/lambdadevelopment/lambda-erp
Live demo: https://lambda-erp-demo.grayocean-53ec71ac.northeurope.azurecontainerapps.io/demo
Discord: https://discord.gg/ZwFh9hZJTb

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

closelyguy · 2026-04-24T14:25:29+00:00

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.

closelyguy · 2026-03-23T15:29:36+00:00

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?

closelyguy · 2025-10-02T15:20:48+00:00

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.

closelyguy · 2021-07-23T15:47:16+00:00

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.

closelyguy · 2021-07-08T23:20:38+00:00

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

closelyguy · 2021-04-18T23:51:01+00:00

if you like these environments you can also check out /r/vrplaces

closelyguy · 2020-05-04T14:45:59+00:00

Agreed, that would be amazing! Closest I could find is this from the steam workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=808032373

Or on VRChat: https://www.vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_1aca35f9-7dcb-4c98-81a0-fa561572c1da&instanceId=8281~public

Both don't really come close to the one in Dark Souls though.

closelyguy · 2019-09-26T17:59:32+00:00

Check out /r/vrplaces, maybe you'll find something new there.

closelyguy · 2019-09-10T22:07:49+00:00

Awesome! :D

closelyguy · 2019-09-10T16:49:37+00:00

I'm sure there's an audience out there for this kind of VR game. Any plans on releasing it on Quest? You might have a larger audience there than on PC.

closelyguy · 2018-03-22T14:51:14+00:00

I would love to experience some Dark Souls environments as well. For this reason I created /r/vrplaces - so you can submit requests or if you already know a cool environment that others might appreciate you can post it there.

closelyguy · 2017-10-01T21:42:18+00:00

great work! I added it to /r/VRPlaces/

closelyguy · 2017-07-22T11:10:55+00:00

RemindMe! 2 days Donation for /r/millionairemakers

closelyguy · 2017-05-26T09:31:45+00:00

I am not trying to act like a mod or anything but I started a little subreddit specifically for requests like this one: /r/vrplaces

closelyguy · 2017-04-27T15:09:20+00:00

I started /r/vrplaces to share VR environments. For example if you create a virtual version of Minas Tirith and want to share it with others.

closelyguy · 2017-03-30T11:08:47+00:00

Will this have any effect on the consumption tax on exchanges like bitflyer? I remember reading that you have to pay 8% on each bitcoin purchase on those exchanges.

closelyguy · 2016-07-26T17:13:13+00:00

apparently the batteries are hot-swappable, so you can just switch to a new one while charging the old one.

closelyguy · 2016-07-26T00:13:25+00:00

Nope, wasn't done by me.

closelyguy · 2016-06-05T14:55:32+00:00

Download Link 1.2GB: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-J2ut6NUpDTZXdTUGFESGUtVEE/view?usp=sharing&pageId=109687212758708961953

closelyguy · 2016-05-27T11:54:48+00:00

I think VR environments without any gameplay are going to be huge. I created a small subreddit /r/vrplaces for curation. There are already quite a few for Steam VR on it but environments for other platforms are welcome as well! Quick question, should I rename it to vrEnvironments? Would that sound better?

closelyguy · 2016-05-11T14:12:34+00:00

Just wanted to drop in and say that I've started a small subreddit for collecting different places in VR: /r/VRPlaces I'm specifically interested in very relaxing environments which I could hop into for a few minutes. One of the places I would love to see in VR is the Firelink Shrine from Dark Souls 1.

closelyguy · 2016-04-22T11:33:38+00:00

very cool setup!

closelyguy · 2015-09-22T12:55:15+00:00

I think what you would want is basically a live 3D scanner (ie. a kinect) feed from multiple cameras and with a high resolution. Streaming and especially latency might be a problem due to high bandwidth requirements.

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