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# Minimum Viable Factory

[Agent orchestration](/software-factories/category/agent-orchestration.md) Open source

[Visit website ](https://github.com/ashtilawat/minimum-viable-factory)[View on GitHub](https://github.com/ashtilawat/minimum-viable-factory)

Small reference implementation of a software factory that takes a ticket and outputs a deployed web app.

## Overview

Minimum Viable Factory is a small reference implementation of a software factory: a ticket goes in and a deployed web app comes out. The whole factory is about 700 lines of Python.

The source is public on GitHub. There is no hosted version and no paid offering.

## Features

* Takes a ticket as input.
* Produces a deployed web app.
* About 700 lines of Python.

## Details

* Website

  [github.com/ashtilawat/minimum-viable-factory](https://github.com/ashtilawat/minimum-viable-factory)

* Company

  Minimum Viable Factory (ashtilawat)

* Category

  [Agent orchestration](/software-factories/category/agent-orchestration.md)

* Source

  Open source

* Repository

  * [github.com/ashtilawat/minimum-viable-factory](https://github.com/ashtilawat/minimum-viable-factory) · 45 stars

* License

  MIT

* Commercial offering

  None found

* Topics

  * [Issue to pull request](/software-factories/?tag=issue-to-pr)
  * [Web apps](/software-factories/?tag=web-apps)

* Listed

  October 2026

* Last verified

  October 2026

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