OpenMRP
an open-source manufacturing ERP built over 4 years
Details
- External ID
- 49419615
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenMRP
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4731182795698925
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- erp system for manufacturers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Manufacturing ERPs require extensive domain-specific business logic including complex multi-level Bills of Materials (BOM), MRP II scheduling algorithms, inventory valuation, and regulatory audit compliance that took years of specialized domain engineering.
What it would actually take: A real manufacturing ERP needs a robust relational database backend (PostgreSQL) modeling recursive hierarchical BOM structures, inventory ledgers with FIFO/LIFO tracking, work orders, routing, and shop floor scheduling. The challenging parts are the MRP calculation engine (handling lead times, safety stocks, lot sizing, and capacity constraints) and seamless accounting integration. Building this demands seasoned ERP software architects and deep industrial manufacturing domain specialists.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Odoo, MySQL, Postgres
Concerns raised: Big players not aligned with users, Older OS ERPs shifted to closed behavior
Competitors
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Attention rank: #611 of 1185 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 299 days after the earliest competitor.
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