I’m currently writing software that manages logistics, freight and resources for a medium sized transportation company. After having used or previewed so many commercial software products, and dealing with the software that international companies use to apply this at scale we were woefully disappointed in the complexity, cost and size of the available options.
Once we are out of the feedback phase I will start to implement a lot of the UI needed for real time multi-user interactions using Phoenix LiveView, which by the way is amazing (but you already knew that).
It has been an amazing growing experience for me personally, and has resulted in many commits, bug reports and suggestions to the projects it utilizes, from Elixir itself to Ecto, Phoenix, LiveView, Timex, Jason, Cowboy, Plug, and the multitude of libraries used for federation, database, cryptography, communications, email and more.
Even though the project is proprietary in nature we will always at the very least give back to the open source community in which it is built upon by way of contributions, feedback and attribution. Some components of this system are going to be released as open source libraries, especially ones regarding mapping and routing integration with amazing projects like OpenStreetMaps and OpenRouteService.
(tried with my wife, critic failure)
