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Distribution business owner builds offline accounting/inventory app with Claude
med specificsAdded 2026-10-14
- Business
- Small distribution business (owner-built)
- Task
- Accounting and inventory (receive stock → sell → update inventory → close books)
- Result
- not stated (owner shares lessons; app running locally on Windows)
- Tools
- Setup
- Strict business-rule prompts, regression tests, end-to-end tests of the receive/sell/close flow, testing in the real Windows environment
- Source
- reddit.com ↗
- Specifics rating
- med specifics high = concrete numbers/quotes; med = partial; low = qualitative
Results as reported by the source; not independently verified.
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