Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
by jlebrech on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:10AM
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don't create a web interface please, maybe there needs to be a way to render ncurses in the web.
Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
by iveqy on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:17AM
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While your idea of auto generating web gui might be nice (I haven't seen it in action yet), there's no such solution what I know on the market yet. I want to be able to have a native feel on every platform. That means a web UI, a windows UI, an Android UI, etc.
Therefor my current solution is to have a really tiny presentation layer that is able to adjust to multiple UI.
Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
by jlebrech on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:25AM
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if you look at blessed for example https://github.com/chjj/blessed you'll see that the widgets fit every use case you would need for a webapp, but just need to write a wrapper for web rather than ncurses if that makes sense.
Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
by mbrock on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:44AM
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You'll want to check out "react-blessed", a way to use Blessed through React -- which enables common UI code for both web and terminal.
Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
by iveqy on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:33AM
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Thanks, very interesting. I didn't know about blessed before.
Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
by terminalcommand on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:05PM
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I'm glad I could help.
If you write a blog post about the CRM and your experience in writing it, that would be a fun read.
Good luck!
The system has a very clear API between GUI and backend, so future plans is to add more interfaces, a web based one is on the list (although IMHO web based interfaces are worse to use).
The LaTeX idea is great, so great that it's already done. I tried to keep the video short and don't show all features. I also have integration with mutt. Sending a new invoice is just a keystroke away and then mutt is opened with an attached pdf and a template mail body.
The account overview is the biggest weakness right now and something I look forwared to improve. I definitely take your suggestions with me towards that work.