Lambda ERP
Open-source ERP you can run through chat
Details
- External ID
- 47911129
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lambda ERP
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, I built Lambda ERP, an open-source ERP prototype where chat is the primary interface.It handles sales/purchase flows, invoices, payments, inventory, double-entry accounting, reports, and chat-generated analytics. There’s a live demo in the README with 3 years of simulated data, plus a Docker Compose setup if you want to run it locally.It is not production-ready yet; I’m looking for feedback on the architecture, the chat-first workflow, and whether this direction makes sense for small teams that can’t afford traditional ERP implementation projects.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche social and community platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source erp controlled via chat
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project is a prototype ERP combining standard relational database schemas (ledger, inventory, invoices) with LLM function-calling tools to execute operations through a chat interface.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: QuickBooks
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Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.