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New comment by Gormanu in "Show HN: We built procurement automation for small teams stuck in spreadsheets"

Gormanu — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:05:28 +0000

Most procurement tools are either huge ERPs that are way too heavy and expensive for SMBs, or duct-taped tools like Airtable that fall apart once you need audits and real tracking. Quickinim sits in the middle. It’s lightweight, cloud-first, works without an ERP, and actually covers the warehouse side with QR scans for incoming goods. Suppliers get a simple portal (no training nightmares), everything is logged for compliance, and pricing scales sanely with team size. We’re not here to replace ERPs - just to kill the spreadsheet-and-email chaos procurement teams are stuck in.

New comment by Gormanu in "Show HN: We built procurement automation for small teams stuck in spreadsheets"

Gormanu — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:17:49 +0000

Author here. A bit more context on why we built this. We kept seeing the same pattern over and over: teams didn’t want an ERP, but they also couldn’t keep running procurement on spreadsheets and email. Most tools we tried were either too heavy, too expensive, or required months of setup and customization. Quickinim isn’t trying to replace ERP systems. It’s meant for the gap before (or instead of) ERP where companies just need reliable purchase orders, supplier updates, and document tracking without the overhead. Happy to answer any questions, and feedback (good or bad) is very welcome.

Show HN: We built procurement automation for small teams stuck in spreadsheets

Gormanu — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:13:46 +0000

Hey HN,

A few years ago, we built a custom procurement system for a Japanese - German manufacturing company. They had hundreds of suppliers, frequent backorders, and a procurement process held together by Excel, email, and manual follow-ups. Receiving goods at the warehouse was painfully slow: staff manually matched incoming items to packing lists, checked quantities by hand, and entered everything into spreadsheets. Orders were missed, documents got lost, and a lot of time was spent just chasing status updates instead of managing suppliers.

What surprised us was that this wasn't an "enterprise-only" problem. Many smaller companies don't run ERP systems, but they deal with the same chaos: spreadsheet procurement, manual warehouse intake, supplier miscommunication - just with fewer resources to fix it.

So we built Quickinim: a lightweight, cloud-based tool that helps SMBs teams manage purchase orders, supplier communication, and documents in one place. No ERP, no long onboarding, just a system that gives visibility and reduces manual work. We even added something we think is underrated: a QR-based goods receipt system that lets warehouse staff scan incoming shipments, instantly match items to orders, and cut receiving time in half.

It's early, and we're actively learning from real users.

I'd really appreciate feedback from this community:

1. What's the most painful part of managing suppliers or purchase orders today?

2. And what have you tried that didn't work?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541949

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by Gormanu in "Show HN: Startup Simulator – AI Choose Your Own Adventure"

Gormanu — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:10:28 +0000

A great tool if you want to completely lose motivation and give up on your idea )) Very grounding, but it does feel realistic.

New comment by Gormanu in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

Gormanu — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:45:58 +0000

I might be behind on modern tech, but what exactly gives me away as AI? I’m genuinely curious.

New comment by Gormanu in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

Gormanu — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:42:38 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an airline take responsibility for a TA’s mistakes. Usually they just send you back to wherever you bought the ticket. And there are other ways to influence the quality of how aggregators and travel agencies operate, instead of just bluntly trying to block or restrict them.

New comment by Gormanu in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

Gormanu — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:32:08 +0000

You guys don't have any other problems than looking for AI slops in every message on HN?

New comment by Gormanu in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

Gormanu — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:30:15 +0000

Why do you think I am an AI slop? If you don't like my opinion , it doesn't mean I am AI.

New comment by Gormanu in "TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse"

Gormanu — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:08:39 +0000

The deal itself feels messy and political, not like a serious solution to data or security concerns. In the end, the risks are still there, and it’s hard to see what regular users actually win from this.

New comment by Gormanu in "'Censorship pure and simple': critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors'"

Gormanu — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:14:33 +0000

Honestly, this feels like classic over-engineering: collecting five years of people’s social media just to let them visit the country. I can’t imagine the false positives this will create — old jokes, memes, politics… all suddenly "security signals."

If the goal is real safety, is this actually the data that helps? Or just an easy way to scare off normal visitors?

New comment by Gormanu in "Colors of Growth"

Gormanu — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:08:50 +0000

Honestly, I opened the paper pretty skeptical - "colors in old paintings as a growth metric? really?" But the more I read, the more it felt like a clean data-engineering pipeline: HSV extraction, PCA, robustness checks, validation — just with 400-year-old inputs instead of logs.

We built Quickinim – a simple SaaS to fix procurement chaos (no ERP needed)

Gormanu — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:24:15 +0000

Article URL: https://quickinim.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106575

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Gormanu in "Linux Kernel Explorer"

Gormanu — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:58:42 +0000

Never mind! I understand that today reading the HN comments looks like witch (AI) hunting. But it is really can be a person behind that account who is new on HN and really positive )) I'll be much more accurate not to look like AI in the future )

New comment by Gormanu in "Linux Kernel Explorer"

Gormanu — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:12:21 +0000

You know, I think this Explorer is exactly the tool many of us lacked. Reading the Linux kernel source always felt daunting — thousands of files, confusing paths, complex structure. This feels like a “map” that helps you orient yourself, see how parts interconnect, how VFS works, how modules tie together. Yeah, sometimes a feature breaks (API limits, errors opening directories), but even so — this is a great way to peek “under the hood,” understand the architecture, and take the first step. Big thanks to the folks behind it.

New comment by Gormanu in "Can you take an ox to Oxford?"

Gormanu — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:07:59 +0000

Oxford is heading straight back to the Middle Ages )) Soon we’ll have horse-drawn carriages at the city entrance (if they aren’t there already), shuttling people around instead of taxis. People still want to get from point A to point B quickly — that need isn’t going anywhere.

New comment by Gormanu in "I Stopped Using Sublime Text"

Gormanu — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:06:29 +0000

Now reading HN articles has basically turned into a witch hunt (strikethrough) an AI hunt )) Anyway, as for the point of the article, I totally get why the author moved on. Sublime will always have a special place in my toolkit, but for serious, modern dev work (especially on big projects) there are better all-rounders now.

New comment by Gormanu in "Disney Lost Roger Rabbit"

Gormanu — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:54:12 +0000

With Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it’s not really clear whether the author originally came up with such a great idea and script, or if Disney just brought it to life so brilliantly on screen. I’m leaning toward the second. It’s cool that he got the rights back, but without Disney this idea just isn’t going to "sing" again.

Quickinim – simple procurement automation for manufacturers (1-minute setup)

Gormanu — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:43:06 +0000

Article URL: https://quickinim.com/manufacturing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997437

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Gormanu in "Continuous Autoregressive Language Models"

Gormanu — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:27:52 +0000

If this works, we’re looking at the next structural shift in LLMs — and all the “bigger model = better” business might finally face a serious challenger. But — and you knew there’d be a “but” — if the reconstruction fails in edge-cases, or the continuous space hides weird failure modes, then this could backfire and produce models that look efficient but feel brittle.

Still — props to the team for going after the real root of inefficiency, not just piling on more layers. If nothing else, this is one to watch if you care about scaling models smarter.

New comment by Gormanu in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

Gormanu — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:23:49 +0000

Bold move from Google — finally admitting the Play Store has a trust problem.

Verification sounds great on paper, but if this turns into “prove you’re a real dev by jumping through 12 forms of bureaucracy,” it’ll just push more talent to sideloading and open platforms.

Still, if Google actually nails this — transparent, fair, and fast — it could be the first time in years Android feels safer without feeling locked down. That’d be a plot twist I’d love to see.