<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Automation on Mateusz Najdek - blog</title><link>http://blog.najdek.me/tags/automation/</link><description>Recent content in Automation on Mateusz Najdek - blog</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><managingEditor>mateusz@najdek.me (Mateusz Najdek)</managingEditor><webMaster>mateusz@najdek.me (Mateusz Najdek)</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://blog.najdek.me/tags/automation/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Engineering for Efficiency: Building a Custom Product Configurator to Automate Logistics</title><link>http://blog.najdek.me/posts/building-icup-custom-configurator/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><author>mateusz@najdek.me (Mateusz Najdek)</author><guid>http://blog.najdek.me/posts/building-icup-custom-configurator/</guid><description>Context: In the world of personalized e-commerce on marketplaces like Allegro, the biggest bottleneck isn&amp;rsquo;t manufacturing—it&amp;rsquo;s matching the user&amp;rsquo;s design to the specific transaction without errors. Here is how I solved this problem with code.
The Problem: &amp;ldquo;Which &amp;lsquo;Anna&amp;rsquo; ordered this mug?&amp;rdquo; Selling custom products on Allegro (Poland&amp;rsquo;s largest marketplace) comes with a specific disconnect: the design tool lives outside the marketplace.
Most competitors solve this lazily: after designing a mug, they ask the user to &amp;ldquo;Type your Allegro Nickname&amp;rdquo; in a form.</description></item><item><title>Why I Built a Custom ERP in Native PHP (Scaling a Solo E-commerce Business)</title><link>http://blog.najdek.me/posts/building-custom-erp-native-php/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><author>mateusz@najdek.me (Mateusz Najdek)</author><guid>http://blog.najdek.me/posts/building-custom-erp-native-php/</guid><description>Context: In the e-commerce world, the standard advice is &amp;ldquo;Don&amp;rsquo;t reinvent the wheel—use Shopify or BaseLinker.&amp;rdquo;
I ignored that advice. I run a personalized manufacturing business (printing custom t-shirts and mugs) as a one-man operation. When you are working alone, you don&amp;rsquo;t need &amp;ldquo;enterprise features&amp;rdquo;—you need a force multiplier. Here is how I built &amp;ldquo;Monmat Manager,&amp;rdquo; a proprietary ERP that allows me to process hundreds of orders solo.
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