The Power of Simple CRUD

ellinoora wrote: post #4

g82918 wrote: post #3

Not really a CRUD article more of a weird angry article about SAAS.

Kind of. However, I think the mentioned problems about SAAS are valid.

I feel like they attack from the wrong angle. Consider BareMetrics an SAAS. They aren't really just a CRUD, but are lumped in with CRM's. The easiest CRM is a spreadsheet and a mailer like SendMail.

Re: The Power of Simple CRUD

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Post by ellinoora » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 4:47 AM UTC

g82918 wrote: post #5

ellinoora wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of. However, I think the mentioned problems about SAAS are valid.

I feel like they attack from the wrong angle. Consider BareMetrics an SAAS. They aren't really just a CRUD, but are lumped in with CRM's. The easiest CRM is a spreadsheet and a mailer like SendMail.

But they have actually replaced many of the popular services with a crud and also mention that MailGun / Stripe are irreplaceable.

Re: The Power of Simple CRUD

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Post by raynguyen » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 4:56 AM UTC

Not sure what this article was trying to get at. If a SAAS service could be replaced by a single line of code, then you did not need to use it in the first place.

Re: The Power of Simple CRUD

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Post by volument » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 6:48 AM UTC

raynguyen wrote: post #7

Not sure what this article was trying to get at. If a SAAS service could be replaced by a single line of code, then you did not need to use it in the first place.

We could ditch Recurly because we had all the necessary billing data available on the new, central system. Not before that.

Re: The Power of Simple CRUD

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Post by jbergens » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 8:57 AM UTC

g82918 wrote: post #5

ellinoora wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of. However, I think the mentioned problems about SAAS are valid.

I feel like they attack from the wrong angle. Consider BareMetrics an SAAS. They aren't really just a CRUD, but are lumped in with CRM's. The easiest CRM is a spreadsheet and a mailer like SendMail.

Many organizations have used Excel as a CRM and then hit a lot of problems. It is very hard to scale up and also hard to add features to if you need them.

Re: The Power of Simple CRUD

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Post by tarjei » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 10:01 AM UTC

What I'm looking for is something to replace external CHAT systems with something that stores all the data in our systems, replacing Intercom or whatever else.