Mini Manage

A lightweight hardware management suite.

I built Mini Manage because tracking the lifecycle of complex hardware (like 3D printers or microscopes) is usually a mess of static spreadsheets. A company requested me to make a piece of software that would automate this tracking and finally help them get rid of their spreadsheets. Ca The core idea is moving from flat lists to System Blueprints. You define the “DNA” of a component once, and then track the actual physical parts by serial number as they move from your stock, into a system, through a repair shipment, and back again.

What it actually does:

System & Assembly: You can build complex “part trees” for units based on templates. It tracks everything down to the serial number, warranty status, and specific manuals for that exact machine.

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Inventory Tracking: It follows the journey of a part from the warehouse to the customer. If stock is low or a part is deployed, you’ll see it in real-time.
Issues & Triage: Instead of a basic “todo” list, the issue tracker is integrated into the assembly. If a part fails, you can swap it out, register the repair, and keep a full audit trail of what happened and why.
Logistics that Works: I built specialized workflows for different types of shipments—sending new systems, handling returns, or shipping spare parts. It even integrates with tracking links and automatically updates your stock levels when a box leaves the building.
Data & Customization: I hate being locked into a rigid UI. Mini Manage has a powerful comma-separated query system, CSV/Excel exports, and a dedicated Python module I wrote to handle bulk data imports programmatically.
Flexible theming The app featured a configuration pages where you could completely define the colorscheme of the app and also expand certain data collections with custom fields.

Unfortunately this application grew too big, an the company decided to take over the development internally. I did learn a lot from building this massive project though.