Work-order board
Most order-management software adds stages, managers and assignment rules. This one removes them.
The whole model: Sales creates one work order. Design and the selected print departments each receive a shared task. Workers pick tasks up themselves. Delivery appears once every selected print task is complete. There is no stage workflow, no manager tier, no auto-assignment and no assigning to a named person.
That restraint is the product. The print shop already knows who does what, and software that second-guesses them gets ignored.
Under the hood
- Frontend: React 19, TypeScript, Vite, Ant Design, TanStack Query and React Router.
- Backend: Hono on Cloudflare Workers, PostgreSQL through a connection pool, files on R2 via presigned URLs.
- Access: JWT auth with a central permissions hook; default system roles resolve to permissions in one place so the UI and API agree.
- Around each order: comments, an activity trail, file uploads and a feedback loop.
I kept a small folder of short architecture, data-model and UI-pattern notes next to the code so a fresh session, human or agent, could pick the project up quickly.
Stack
React, TypeScript, Ant Design, Hono, Cloudflare Workers, PostgreSQL, R2.