Firm: A Text-Based Work Management System for Technologists Using Business-as-Code Approach
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danielrothmann
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
Firm is a text-based work management system designed for technologists that treats business operations as code. It addresses the problem of scattered data across multiple SaaS tools by providing a unified view through plain text files that users own and control. The system allows defining business relationships (customers, projects, tasks, people, organizations) using a domain-specific language (DSL), with version control and local storage capabilities. This 'business-as-code' approach enables structured representation of work in a way that's familiar to developers.
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Your business is a graph: customers link to projects, projects link to tasks, people link to organizations. Firm lets you define these relationships in plain text files (you own!).
Version controlled, locally stored and structured as code with the Firm DSL. This structured representation of your work, business-as-code, makes your
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