A history graduate with no coding experience built one ERP for his whole family of shopkeepers, and they all dropped their paid systems
He comes from a family of shopkeepers: barbershops, a meal delivery service for workers, a clothing store, a real estate broker. Every business had its own paid ERP and none of them fit. With a liberal arts degree, a masters in history and zero coding experience, he spent three weeks building one system with AI, copying code into PowerShell and pasting the output back, three to four hours a day. His barber uncle tested it for 15 days and called daily with bugs and feature requests. Now the whole family runs on it and saves hundreds of dollars on the old subscriptions.
How it works
- Spend three weeks in a back and forth loop with AI, three to four hours a day
- The AI writes the code, he pastes it into PowerShell and sends the output back
- His barber uncle test drives the system for 15 days and reports bugs daily
- Fix and add features until it is robust
- The whole family switches to it
Why it’s worth knowing
The person who replaced the family software stack has a masters in history and had never written code. His quality control was an uncle in a barbershop calling every day for two weeks.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗