Ask HN: Modern Tech Stack for Manufacturing?
It's almost a truism that software built for software engineers is best-in-class. Think linear.app or whatever.
Next best is that software that software engineers can image using or have been exposed to. So, software to book hair salon appointments. CRMs. Stripe.
Unfortunately, manufacturing (10% of US GDP) belongs to the third category of software: software that software engineers don't know exists and can't imagine using.
Is anyone working on modern, cloud-based, manufacturing software?
Ideally:
- Works for small, lean projects
- Web-based
- No "Call us" pricing page
- Uses manufacturing terminology (ie, "issues" have pretty specific meanings in mfg! We don't talk about "bugs!")
A lot of software built for software engineers is awful. I was in a workshop where we learned to use Unity Framework and I noticed... (1) It took forever to download and install despite having a super-fast internet connection, (2) the default color scheme for small text in the property editor was somewhat lighter than medium grey on somewhat darker than medium grey. First I thought it was my presbyopic eyes but I saw undergraduate students struggled to read it too.