Looks nice. For anyone looking to self-host or develop their own CRMs, I can't recommend https://erpnext.com enough. It's written in Python and is FOSS.
Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know a bit of Japanese and it didn't strike me at all. Is it just the "baka"? :-)
Wo = The Baka = Fool Src: Typed "wo in Japanese" and "baka in Japanese" into Google.
Names can, of course, be whatever they want, so there's nothing to say whether or not the name is "right" or "wrong".
From a language perspective, を is most commonly transliterated wo when used in isolation. When used as a particle, it's generally transliterated as o. It also follows the noun rather than proceeds it. So if the intent of wobaka is to mean something like idiot (as the object of a sentence) a number of liberties have been taken.
There's an honorific o お that does precede a noun, which I've never seen transliterated wo.
Re: Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would you recommend for a mom and pop ecommerce? Trying to find something for a couple of friends, but everything is bloated and complex.
What would you be looking for in a less bloated CRM? I have considered writing one as a starter for clients but not sure what features to include.
Well, they need to track orders, send newsletters to their customers, some help preparing physical newsletters, track inventory, etc. The basics. However, they do it all with Excel right now, so some intelligence from a CRM would be nice: forecasting? When and how much inventory should I have for next season? etc.
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#74Kudos for the launch! Is there a way to demo the product? Or see it in live w/o having to pull out the CC?
Thanks! I'll make sure to put up a video/gif on some workflow this week :). Also, I'm using Stripe to handle payments and will not charge anything for the free trial.
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#75Is the name a play on Wookiee Chewbacca? Asking for a friend.
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#76Is there a guide or a book you'd recommend on designing software like this (in terms of the UI)? You've done very well.
Design of everyday things is the only book I've read on design and it's great :)!
I also learn from others and save design inspiration all the time and share it on Klart.io/pixels.
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#77As someone who evaluates CRMs pretty much for a living I'm sad to report there's nothing new here. Great UI - Kudos. But, this is way more expensive than Pipedrive whose UI is arguably as user friendly. I think you've got potential here... but you're priced same as close.io with far fewer features and a similar UI.
Hey! Thanks for your feedback! I just want to mention that Wobaka is $49 for all of your team, not per user. So if you're more than 3 users it's not more expensive :).
Maybe the feedback here is to make that clearer, without knowing much that sounds like a huge selling point compared to your competition, so you should pull attention to it. This is what your website says right now:
> Start your 7 day free trial now. After that it's $49 per month, total.
How about clarifying it to something like:
> 7 day free trial: after that unlimited users costs $49 per month. That's for your entire team!
Something that brings home the point of how much of a difference this is compared to the "per-agent" pricing that's pretty much standard.
I'll leave it to others to decide how viable this pricing is :-)
EDIT: Also, just wanted to let you know there's a typo on https://wobaka.com/#/sign-up
> That's a total, no matter how many people --> your <-- are.
Re: Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
#78Is the name a play on Wookiee Chewbacca? Asking for a friend.
Haha, I honestly don't know where I got it from. It used to be a word game I made in 2012 and I've just had the domain since :D.
Re: Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
#79As someone who evaluates CRMs pretty much for a living I'm sad to report there's nothing new here. Great UI - Kudos. But, this is way more expensive than Pipedrive whose UI is arguably as user friendly. I think you've got potential here... but you're priced same as close.io with far fewer features and a similar UI.
Hey! Thanks for your feedback! I just want to mention that Wobaka is $49 for all of your team, not per user. So if you're more than 3 users it's not more expensive :).
So if a firm with 50,000 employees signs up, you'll charge them $49?
You should reconsider this pricing model because a client of any considerable size is both able and willing to pay for a product that is financially stable. $49 won't keep the lights on, and the fear of investing time and data into a system that won't survive financially due to poor pricing might scare off some potential customers.
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#80I found it a little hard to understand the differentiators. I think in a space like this, where there are already a host of established players, you should have the differentiating feature up front and easily consumable. I'd love to hear more about what other CRMs were missing (in a particular use case) and then hear what you did to fix it.