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Re: Two big announcements

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Congrats on figuring it out and having a clear focus, but also to trying a lot of things over the years and figuring out what works. And thank you for being so responsible with the future of your legacy products. There are too many companies that are too happy to simply shut down things as soon as ROI numbers don't line up.

Here's to the future.

Re: Two big announcements

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post #3

And I was just about to integrate Highrise into my app...moving on! Any suggestions on a Highrise competitor that is stable, etc.?

We just finished moving or old CRM to Highrise. I hope that someone acquires and keep updating the product.

Re: Two big announcements

#8
I think it's commendable to take this approach. They are doing a few things very right. 1.) Not shutting down existing products and leaving users without a service, 2.) Not wanting to just sell it to the highest bidder but actually are concerned about their users, 3.) Having the guts to just put everything on the table and changing major things up. I feel like a lot of companies feel like, 'Well we have these products we have to either keep them going and scale or kill them.' Their solution here is a wise one that is certainly putting users before dollars and ease.

While everyone may not be happy with it, it's certainly better than a lot of shut downs and other moves startups have made that have pissed a lot of people off.

Re: Two big announcements

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Big news! We've been big fans of 37signals for a decade or so and in many ways they have inspired us in building Close.io. I love that they are able to make the hard decision to focus on one thing.

We want to take great care of any Highrise customers looking for a new home: http://close.io/highrise

Check out http://close.io/ - mention that you were a Highrise customer and I can make sure you'll get a special discount.

Close.io is a next-gen sales communication tracking tool with an easy 1-click migration from Highrise, as well as automatic 2-way email syncing, call tracking, etc. See what our customers say at https://www.quora.com/Reviews-of-Close-io

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