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Frappe Blog
Company blog · frappe.io/blog · on HN as rushabhprogrammingbusiness
Frappe Blog is the company blog at frappe.io, writing about programming and business. Since 2014, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Frappe DataTable – A simple, modern datatable library for the web”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link frappe.io while mentioning the Frappe framework, the ERPNext open-source ERP, and the Frappe charts and datatable libraries. Linked posts include ERPNext company culture pieces on employee-chosen pay.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Frappe DataTable – A simple, modern datatable library for the web4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-07-06
- /charts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-06-13
- Frappe Helpdesk: AGPL v3.0 Ticketing Web App2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-31
- Frappe: A Full Stack Web Framework Using Python, JS, and MariaDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-28
- /frappe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-16
What Hacker News says?
The last few hours: (React Dev) Apache ECharts - https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html React Chart XKCD - https://github.com/obiwankenoobi/chart.xkcd-react React Cookie Consent - https://github.com/Mastermindzh/react-cookie-consent AnimeJS - https://animejs.com/ Quill - text editor - https://github.com/quilljs/quill Nprogress - slim progress bar - https://github.com/rstacruz/nprogress Marktext - desktop app - htt…
Comment linking /charts
on “Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer”Submitted The Problem with Commercial Open Source as a story · 9 points
HN discussiona) Nextcloud b) AFFiNE https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE but check some part of server license, what is allowed: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE/blob/canary/packages/... c) Frappe: https://frappe.io/erpnext https://frappe.io/framework d) Odoo https://www.odoo.com e) Sandstorm https://sandstorm.org , although WeKan is old version, I try to update it sometime f) WeKan with webhooks https://news.ycombinator…
Comment linking /framework
on “Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello”Submitted Software as a Scam as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis is exactly the problem we have tried solving with the Frappe Framework [1] (Open Source, MIT). The core concept in Frappe is a DocType, which is configurable metadata. Using this you can quickly build small, special purpose apps for very niche targeted use cases for their own business. You can also configure rule based permissions and add simple scripts. We have used it to build hundreds of use cases for ERPNex…
Comment linking /frappe
on “Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation”Submitted Balancing the Costs of Count(*) and UX as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCheckout Frappe Datatables ( https://frappe.io/datatable ) (MIT License) it has most of what you need.
Comment linking /datatable
on “Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere”Submitted If You Wish to Understand Frappe's Scheduler, You Must First Invent the U as a story · 5 points
HN discussioncheckout https://frappe.io/helpdesk
Comment linking /helpdesk
on “Show HN: Libredesk – Open-source customer support desk. Single binary app”Submitted Generating PDF on Server Side as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLooks nice, congratulations. Can you add knowledgebase section? I'm looking for an alternative to freshdesk/zendesk. I would recommend monetizing this via hosted service like https://frappe.io/ does with ERPNext project.
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on “Show HN: Libredesk – Open-source customer support desk. Single binary app”Submitted Frappe UI 1.0 Release as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIn addition to the alternatives already mentioned I really like https://frappe.io/charts
Comment linking /charts
on “The Trouble with D3”Submitted Beating Redis with a Dictionary and Redis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFrom the same people who also made ERPNext, "the world's best 100% open source ERP" which was built in their own (open source) web framework called ... Frappe https://frappe.io/frappe
Comment linking /frappe
on “Show HN: FrappeBooks – Free and Open Source, Modern Desktop Accounting for SMB”Submitted Frappe Helpdesk: AGPL v3.0 Ticketing Web App as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFrappe Accounting is an electron based app exactly for this (GPL v3). We have pushed an alpha version and would love to find collaborators. Out of the box you can setup chart of accounts, make bills, payments, get basic accounting reports. https://github.com/frappe/accounting https://frappe.io/accounting Anyone willing to collaborate, please drop me a mail.
Comment linking /accounting
on “Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track finances?”Submitted Frappe: A Full Stack Web Framework Using Python, JS, and MariaDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDisclaimer: I am one of the developers that built this. Try Frappe Framework ( https://frappe.io ). We have received feedback that it is really good to quickly build internal projects or prototypes. Also ERPNext ( https://ERPNext.com ) is an open source erp that is feature rich and has a good UI. It can help any startup to manage their business without resorting to complicated excel sheets based management.
Comment linking /
on “Useful Python Libraries for Startups”Submitted Indian Startup Ecosystem: Givers and Takers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFrappe Builder: https://frappe.io/builder https://github.com/frappe/builder Visual website designing + publishing, built on Frappe Framework
Comment linking /builder
on “WordPress Alternatives”Submitted MariaDB Physical Backup and Restoration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHow are Swift and Rust very similar? I can search, but want to hear your opinion. And congrats on starting a language project, even if Just for Fun (Linux). ;) https://frappe.io/blog/book-reviews/just-for-fun-a-book-on-l...
Comment linking /blog/book-reviews/just-for-fun-a-book-on-linus-torvalds
on “Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go”Submitted Show HN: Frappe Builder – Open Source Web Page Editing and Publishing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReminds me of https://frappe.io/datatable
Comment linking /datatable
on “Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced Table Plugin”Submitted Diagnosing Random MariaDB Freezes on Frappe Cloud as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Salaries of every employee: https://buffer.com/salaries Reminds me of Frappe (ERPNext) letting employees choose their own pay: https://frappe.io/blog/culture/choosing-your-own-pay-how-doe... / https://archive.vn/o7NtE ... which ended being, well ... eventful: https://frappe.io/blog/culture/in-the-aftermath-of-exuberanc... / https://archive.vn/BRaQc
Comment linking /blog/culture/in-the-aftermath-of-exuberance-pick-your-own-pay-23
on “Ente – Opening Our Books”Submitted Do CRMs improve customer relationships? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs a frontend dev who also works in UX and graphics from time to time, I find it helpful to be able to do both, looking at SVGs as both a vector graphics format and a human-readable XML. IME the workflow depends more on whether any SVG is meant to be illustrative (like art) or quantitative (like charts) or interactive and animated/mutable (like a game). For something like this bell example ( https://svg-tutorial.com…
Comment linking /charts
on “Learn SVG with 25 examples – How to code images in HTML”Submitted Odoo's Marketing Blitz in India as a story · 1 points
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