Another great open source asset management system to check out is Snipe-IT. <a href="https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it">https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it</a><p>I have used it for years both self hosted and with them hosting and it's been a great low cost solution for asset management.
Visually, it looks GREAT. Thanks for sharing this. I do care more about the feature set than the UI tho', so I have some questions.<p>AM to me is the foundational part of any security management. I care about 3 main things:<p><pre><code> 1) API support (for custom tooling)
2) Integration with other tools (Jira, Salesforce, etc)
3) Relationships/Dependencies with other assets (to determine the blast radius if there is an incident, or if this asset can be deco'd and what the impact would be)
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Assets are more than just devices, are these catered for?<p>The feature set looks like it steps into EDM, which is a totally different problem space to AM IMO.
Unfortunately, both shelf and snipe are limited asset management systems that do not cover the broader asset management situations and issues.<p>Having worked in asset management at one time, the field has some quite difficult aspects that are often missed by these relatively simple systems.<p>I am not disparaging what either of these systems do. There is a lot of time and effort that has been put into them. However, full blown asset management is a much bigger area than most people understand or have built systems for.<p>One asset class that can act as a test case for any asset management system that you might like to try your hand at building is a multi-story multi-use building. Once you get into the weeds on this one, you begin to see just how complex asset management is.<p>One feature of asset management is the oft forgotten maintenance sequences and forecasting of maintenance and refurbishment.<p>A number of other comments here have commented on such aspects
IT wise, It's been a fair few years since I've been in a department that does asset management, we used to use GLPI with it's warts and all, which got replace with <a href="https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox">https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox</a>
I guess I'm old and boring. I have a storage.txt file that just has a box#(literally written on the box/object) and then a description, tab seperated. That's the entirety of my inventory management. Searching through the text file is easy peasy.
The database backing this, Supabase, describes itself as "stable enough for most non-enterprise use-cases".<p>I suppose that means this tool is "stable enough for most non-enterprise use-cases", which means I can't use it despite wanting to.
Seems interesting. It would be nice if a user could record maintenance events. For example: rotate tires, change oil. Also, I would like to upload user manuals - not just hyperlinks.
This looks great - I was looking for something like this and other solutions are split into pretty much a) way too expensive for a small business using it casually b) very basic systems without mobile support. Ended up just using Airtable directly with the mobile app - not amazing, but also not bad at all.<p>One thing I couldn't figure out from the website/GitHub - can I attach more than one image to the item? For example I'd like to save both the photo and the pdf of the invoice.
The other day I was looking for a Windows desktop app for managing home assets (Where is this tool? What is inside my box A1 located in room B?)<p>There is very little software like that. Everything is a website or a smartphone app. I want a Windows desktop program.
What do you guys use for managing digital assets, and by that I mean what software is installed where, what usernames/passwords are required for operating (databases, 3rd party API, etc), which versions, etc?
Category selection and location selection is sketchy at best, it's using those advanced selection lists but at the first tap of the field, the list opens, the keyboard opens and the list closes, only at the second tap I get an open selection list -_-
I tried the hosted demo and IMO it feel way too barebone.<p>* No basic fields like a serial number, model, etc
* You can't change the color of a category once created
* It lacks the ability to make assets templates
* No obvious ways to create custom fields
<a href="https://github.com/Shelf-nu/shelf.nu/blob/main/LICENCE">https://github.com/Shelf-nu/shelf.nu/blob/main/LICENCE</a><p>License MIT <3
Looks beautiful. Also, congrats on shipping it with a MIT license, which is great.<p>One downside: the blog entries look like it was written by ChatGPT or similar.