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carbon

Open-source manufacturing ERP, MES and QMS. Quoting, MRP, inventory, shop floor, quality and lot/serial traceability on one Postgres schema, with a REST API and MCP server. Self-host or use Carbon Cloud.

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What to know before exploring

What it is

Open-source manufacturing ERP, MES and QMS. Quoting, MRP, inventory, shop floor, quality and lot/serial traceability on one Postgres schema, with a REST API and MCP server. Self-host or use Carbon Cloud.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-08-04 22:24:20 UTC to 2025-08-05 18:04:00 UTC.

012025-08-04 22:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-04 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 4, 22:002025-08-04 23:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 01:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-08-05 02:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 03:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-08-05 04:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 05:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 06:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 07:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 08:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 5, 08:002025-08-05 09:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 10:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 11:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 12:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 13:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 14:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-08-05 15:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 16:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-05 17:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-08-05 18:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-05 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 5, 18:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 4, 22:002025-08-04 22:00:00 UTC2025-08-04 23:00:00 UTC110
Aug 4, 23:002025-08-04 23:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 00:002025-08-05 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 01:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 01:002025-08-05 01:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 02:00:00 UTC101
Aug 5, 02:002025-08-05 02:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 03:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 03:002025-08-05 03:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 04:00:00 UTC101
Aug 5, 04:002025-08-05 04:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 05:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 05:002025-08-05 05:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 06:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 06:002025-08-05 06:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 07:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 07:002025-08-05 07:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 08:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 08:002025-08-05 08:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 09:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 09:002025-08-05 09:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 10:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 10:002025-08-05 10:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 11:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 11:002025-08-05 11:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 12:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 12:002025-08-05 12:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 13:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 13:002025-08-05 13:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 14:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 14:002025-08-05 14:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 15:00:00 UTC101
Aug 5, 15:002025-08-05 15:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 16:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 16:002025-08-05 16:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 17:00:00 UTC000
Aug 5, 17:002025-08-05 17:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 18:00:00 UTC101
Aug 5, 18:002025-08-05 18:00:00 UTC2025-08-05 19:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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these are all excellent questions! i think, interestingly, the answer to all of them is basically -- there's an off the shelf version that's opinionated and good. and if you want to take it a step further, you'd want to just modify the source code. i think open-source gives consultatnts and integrators super powers that they may not be used to -- everything currently has to be done through abstractions on abstractions. if you can just modify the source code, it becomes a little simpler i think. take the PDFs for example. just make them how you want them in your instance of the software using the most popular tools on the planet (i don't mean crystal reports): https://github.com/crbnos/carbon/tree/main/packages/document...
In Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years

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