Shelf – open-source asset management software

Another great open source asset management system to check out is Snipe-IT. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;snipe&#x2F;snipe-it">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;snipe&#x2F;snipe-it</a><p>I have used it for years both self hosted and with them hosting and it&#x27;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&#x27;, 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&#x2F;Dependencies with other assets (to determine the blast radius if there is an incident, or if this asset can be deco&#x27;d and what the impact would be) </code></pre> 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&#x27;s been a fair few years since I&#x27;ve been in a department that does asset management, we used to use GLPI with it&#x27;s warts and all, which got replace with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netbox-community&#x2F;netbox">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netbox-community&#x2F;netbox</a>

I guess I&#x27;m old and boring. I have a storage.txt file that just has a box#(literally written on the box&#x2F;object) and then a description, tab seperated. That&#x27;s the entirety of my inventory management. Searching through the text file is easy peasy.

The database backing this, Supabase, describes itself as &quot;stable enough for most non-enterprise use-cases&quot;.<p>I suppose that means this tool is &quot;stable enough for most non-enterprise use-cases&quot;, which means I can&#x27;t use it despite wanting to.

Is there something like this but for “home” usecases? What’s in my pantry, how much of y do I have left in my medicine cabinet, etc.

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&#x27;t figure out from the website&#x2F;GitHub - can I attach more than one image to the item? For example I&#x27;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&#x2F;passwords are required for operating (databases, 3rd party API, etc), which versions, etc?

Category selection and location selection is sketchy at best, it&#x27;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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Shelf-nu&#x2F;shelf.nu&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENCE">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Shelf-nu&#x2F;shelf.nu&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENCE</a><p>License MIT &lt;3

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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.

Replacing QR stickers with a visual tagging model seems like it could reduce the friction of data entry dramatically.

What&#x27;s the best way to get involved in the development of Shelf? Looks like a fun project to contribute to!

Can anyone recommend a warehouse management system that&#x27;s open source?

Nice! I was thinking of building something like this at some point.

Hopefully someone can gain value from this!

and not a single screenshot in the readme<p>edit: oh its only on the website