Craftplan
I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
Details
- External ID
- 46847690
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Craftplan
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 577
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9973045822102425
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
My wife was planning to open a micro-bakery. We looked at production management software and it was all either expensive or way too generic. The actual workflows for a small-batch manufacturer aren't that complex, so I built one and open-sourced it.Craftplan handles recipes (versioned BOMs with cost rollups), inventory (lot traceability, demand forecasting, allergen tracking), orders, production batch planning, and purchasing. Built with Elixir, Ash Framework, Phoenix LiveView, and PostgreSQL.Live demo: https://craftplan.fly.dev ([email protected] / Aa123123123123)GitHub: https://github.com/puemos/craftplan
Enrichment
- Theme
- meal planning and food discovery
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- production management for bakeries
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard CRUD business tool for micro-bakeries managing versioned bills of materials (BOMs), cost calculations, and batch scheduling.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Microsoft Access, ERP systems, Spreadsheets (Excel, Google Sheets), High-end customer success tools ($10k-$50k/year)
Concerns raised: AI-generated apps will rot as platforms/infrastructure advance, Developers on the hook for migrating AI-built apps over time, Security risks with non-technical users deploying to production, SME app owners can't scale attention as adoption grows, Shadow IT and lack of governance around user-created tools
Feature requests: LLM-friendly shared datastore for AI-developed apps, Git-based prompt template sharing for version control, Static page/HTML-JS-CSS deployment pipelines for backwards compatibility, Role-based access controls for module deployment, Change management and platform upgrade notifications
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 14 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 15 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 65 days after the earliest competitor.
- Craftplan · hn · 2026-02-03 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.79
- Design a commercial bakery in an afternoon, not for $10k · hn · 2025-11-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- TryBrewLog · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- MakerMargin · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Augno · hn · 2026-03-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Batchable · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Pantry Inventory App for Restaurants · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Meslo · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.32
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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