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Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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databases, migration tools

I've written a sql to elasticsearch mapping tool I feel I should of released. Eleasticsearch is in desperate need of many tools we take for granted in sql land, like a command line client you can easily punch in queries on the fly because trying to write multi line json into the commandline curl is death so I'm forced to install kibana.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Anything that any salesman or customer service employee mentions that plugs into salesforce. A mail button for sales force ? A print button for salesforce ? A make my phone call customer button inside salesforce button? Oh sweet only $20 per month per salesman....so we have 50 people on salesforce so only 1,000 a month, only $12,000 a year? This should help get us out of dept so fast !!! FML.

I'm guessing you weren't pushing for Salesforce, but out of interest, did your company evaluate any other CRM platforms? If so, do you know why they chose Salesforce?

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My current employer doesn't use Slack and instead uses XMPP and a web front-end called "Movim". I can tell you right away, it is shit. I'd gladly pay 10k/year for the privilege of using Slack, so please don't bash on it until you realise how bad the alternatives are.

Discord is free and in many ways better. If you don't mind the gamer vibe.

In what ways?

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord is free and in many ways better. If you don't mind the gamer vibe.

In what ways?

It doesn't have (as much) performance issues. Seriously, loading a couple hundred messages shouldn't take even a second, what are we, living in 1990?
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