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Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)

Details

External ID
46962356
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Feb. 10, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
32
Upvotes percentile
0.7513477088948787
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

We recently open-sourced Hive after using it internally to support real production workflows tied to contracts totaling over $500k.Instead of manually wiring workflows or building brittle automations, Hive is designed to let developers define a goal in natural language and generate an initial agent that can execute real tasks.Today, Hive supports goal-driven agent generation, multi-agent coordination, and production-oriented execution with observability and guardrails. We are actively building toward a system that can capture failure context, evolve agent logic, and continuously improve workflows over time - that self-improving loop is still under development.Hive is intended for teams that want:- Autonomous agents running real business workflows- Multi-agent coordination- A foundation that can evolve through execution dataWe currently have nearly 100 contributors across engineering, tooling, docs, and integrations. A huge portion of the framework’s capabilities - from CI improvements to agent templates - came directly from community pull requests and issue discussions. We want to highlight and thank everyone who has contributed. Specifically out top 11 contributors @vakrahul @Samir-atra @VasuBansal7576 @Aarav-shukla07 @Amdev-5 @Hundao @Antiarin @AadiSharma49 @Emart29 @srinuk9570 @levxn

Enrichment

Theme
AI agent frameworks and developer tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Vertical SaaS
Audience
B2B
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
open source erp system
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No A production-grade enterprise resource planning (ERP) system requires massive business domain knowledge, complex workflow engines, relational integrity across accounting, inventory, and supply chain, plus enterprise security compliance.

What it would actually take: A production ERP platform requires a robust event-driven backend (often Go, Java, or Python/Django) with transactional databases (PostgreSQL), distributed task workers (Temporal or Celery), and deterministic multi-step state machines. The primary challenges involve modeling double-entry bookkeeping, multi-tenant compliance, localized tax rules, inventory reconciliation, and hardened role-based access control across dozens of intertwined business workflows.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Workflow and edge cases unclear for first-time users, Agents lack awareness of current date/time without runtime injection, Production durability and crash recovery for long-running workflows, Data serialization latency between runtime and dashboard

Feature requests: Centralized registry for hardcoded prompts across framework, Closed-loop agent evolution (agents learning from their own runs), Cron-style scheduled execution, Self-healing event logs for automatic agent guardrail tuning, Extend decision evaluation hooks and governance for production use

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 269 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #80 of 270 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 98 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

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