I’ve been noticing a pattern in small manufacturing shops.They don’t move cleanly from spreadsheets to ERP.They hit a stage where:spreadsheets stop matching realityinventory drifts

Builder of BUS Core — local-first ERP for small workshops (inventory, costing, manufacturing)

Built a tool for the gap between spreadsheets and ERP in small manufacturing

You add a website.A distribution channel.Auth.Metrics.A second tool.A release pipeline.Before long you’re not running an app anymore — you’re running an ecosystem.So I mapped mine.

Then things grow.

Most software projects start as a single repo.

I’m starting to think early traction for infrastructure software gets judged with the wrong scoreboard.I reset my stats yesterday.By the next morning, BUS Core had real downloads a

The Quiet Signal That Matters More Than Likes

I was in the middle of reworking the update path for BUS Core when the Bitwarden CLI supply-chain incident happened.That was enough to stop and rethink one assumption:The updater i

Jamie Whelan

Builder of BUS Core — local-first ERP for small workshops (inventory, costing, manufacturing)