Can you tell us about the backend stack of this venture?
Backend is Clojure, frontend is ClojureScript :).
Nice to see a full Clojure stack! React based? If so, which library did you go with? Nice work!
Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I don't think that big of a firm will sign up. I'm building a CRM for small businesses and makers. I don't think that large firms would enjoy it.
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#83Congratulations on your product launch! I am not your potential customer but as a fellow software developer I would like to know the technology/programming languages driving your product if you don't mind.
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#84A while ago I used Hubspot CRM for a bit. I think it's slow and quirky, and to me it's a big red flag how hard they make it to get the data out (or, well, 2 years ago at least). But Hubspot gets one thing right that I never understood other CRMs can't do. If Hubspot sees an email from name@company.com, they automatically make a new contact for that name, and a new organization for that company (derived from the @comp…
Started on HubSpot and jumped around until we landed on PipeDrive. Very happy with it and their API makes it very easy to do internal tools and automation flows.
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#85I really like the site. How did you come up with 7 days as a trial period? Seems like it may take longer than a week for someone to really see the value. I could be totally wrong though.
I just picked a number. I want to offer a way to try it for free. However, My focus is to provide the best possible experience and support for paying customers, and I can't really do that if I'm supporting free users. If you need more time to evaluate, I can extend your trial :).
How about letting them use it for free until you are -sure- they have bought in. That is, you see they are adding colleagues, or acting a lot on key areas. Etc.
Re: Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
#86Congratulations on your product launch! I am not your potential customer but as a fellow software developer I would like to know the technology/programming languages driving your product if you don't mind.
Thank you!
It's Clojure + ClojureScript, using a view library called Rum :).
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#87As 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.
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.
Pipedrive. Its not perfect and there are many situation where I would recommend differently, but it will meet you needs.
Re: Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
#88As 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.
What's your opinion about Base CRM?
Re: Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What you are looking for is as much ERP as CRM. You might have a look at Unleashed for inventory and Zapier integration to something like close.io for the outreach & CRM portion.
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#90Congratulations on your product launch! I am not your potential customer but as a fellow software developer I would like to know the technology/programming languages driving your product if you don't mind.
Thank you! It's Clojure + ClojureScript, using a view library called Rum :).
Wow! I love Clojure. Unfortunately never got to use at work and of course never built anything serious with it.
Would you like to share more about your experience building a live product with Clojure? Did you face any challenges due to the smaller community and smaller set of libraries compared to something mainstream like Python or Go?