Firm, a text-based work management system
A text-based work management system for technologists. - 42futures/firm
Firm, a text-based work management system launched on October 15, 2025 with 172 votes, #163 of 8,178 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
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Firm is a text-based work management system launched in October 2025. It helps users organize and track tasks using a plain-text interface rather than graphical elements. The system is designed for people who prefer working in text editors or command-line environments. Its text-based approach makes it lightweight and accessible to developers and other users comfortable with text-driven workflows. The project is available on GitHub for those interested in exploring or contributing to its development.
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Modern businesses are natively digital, but lack a unified view. Your data is scattered across SaaS tools you don't control, so you piece together answers by jumping between platforms. Think of your business as a graph: organizations link to people, people link to projects, projects link to tasks, and so on. Firm lets you define these relationships in plain text files. Version controlled, locally stored and structured as code with the Firm DSL. This structured representation of your work, business-as-code , makes your business accessible to yourself and to the robots that help you run it. brew tap 42futures/firm brew install firm Or download from Github releases:…from github.com
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