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ever-co/ever-gauzy
Ever® Gauzy™ - Open Business Management Platform (ERP/CRM/HRM/ATS/PM) - https://gauzy.co
Ever Gauzy is a full-stack open-source ERP/CRM/HRM platform built on NestJS + Angular with TypeORM. It targets small-to-medium businesses that want a self-hosted alternative to Odoo or similar suites, with particular focus on time tracking and remote/freelance team management.
The infrastructure story is genuinely well thought-out: Docker Compose for dev, Kubernetes configs and Terraform/Pulumi modules for production, plus DigitalOcean App Platform one-click deploys — rare to see all three covered. The headless API design (api.gauzy.co/docs) lets you use Ever Teams or a custom frontend instead of the Angular UI, which is the right call for an ERP core. TypeORM/MikroORM/Knex multi-DB support is actually implemented, not just promised — SQLite for local dev, Postgres/MySQL for prod, with no code changes required. Active CI/CD with 40+ GitHub Actions workflows covering staging, demo, and production deployments means the release pipeline is real and tested.
The Angular + Ngx-admin frontend is a liability: Ngx-admin is a theme library with its own opinions baked in everywhere, and Angular's complexity makes the UI hard to fork or extend without buying into the full stack. The production Docker Compose spins up ten-plus infrastructure components (OpenSearch, MinIO, Jitsu, Redis, Cube, Zipkin) — that's not a 'recommended for production' setup, that's a maintenance burden most teams will abandon half-complete within a month. The SaaS offering is still in Alpha and the docs are explicitly marked WIP, so if you hit a wall self-hosting you're mostly on your own with 3,700-star GitHub traffic and a Slack community. AGPL v3 licensing means any SaaS derivative needs to open-source or negotiate an enterprise license, which kills most commercial use cases without paying Ever Co.