this is brilliant (and great name).
The true value of a salesorce/hubspot killer CRM is integrations. Most people use hubspot or salesforce just as a database and use a bunch of other tools.
If you want to do one thing - focus on integrations first and UI second. Let your integration architecture inform your UI/metadata driven architecture.
the good thing is - this is an easy step into monetization. Anyone would pay the same cost as hubspot for an opensource alternative...but with the same integrations. Managing the data pipelines is the hard part.
Yes that's exactly what we've seen! A lot of companies we've talked with don't have a datawarehouse / reverse-ETL, so they use the CRM for that instead,and the integrations are core the CRM value prop. That's what makes it hard for small CRMs with a nice UI to compete with large players. From that perspective, I think being open source will help us a lot build this network of integrations faster
Great feedback that we should prioritize it as early as possible, thanks!
If you want to do one thing - focus on integrations first and UI second. Let your integration architecture inform your UI/metadata driven architecture.
the good thing is - this is an easy step into monetization. Anyone would pay the same cost as hubspot for an opensource alternative...but with the same integrations. Managing the data pipelines is the hard part.