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Startup tooling: our product management, sales, and marketing stack

by rosslazer on 2/19/22, 3:38 AM with 53 comments

  • by _gmnw on 2/19/22, 12:51 PM

    Half of these tools are behind a demo and don't show pricing, yours included. Usually that is because it's too costly, and it becomes a non-starter for me.
  • by tibiahurried on 2/19/22, 5:20 AM

    Why Zoom when you have already got GSuite? Google Meeting is great, it works in the browser and does not need any additional software.
  • by altdataseller on 2/19/22, 1:18 PM

    What does Snowflake offer you that you can’t get from Postgres or even an analytics engine like Elasticsearch? (I understand the general differences but curious about your specific situation)

    Also what “upstarts” did you not consider over JIRA?

  • by xvilka on 2/19/22, 5:49 AM

    What about accounting and bookkeeping? At least apart from bills management. There's open source Akaunting [1][2] but it has poor support of banking feeds outside of US and UK.

    [1] https://github.com/akaunting/akaunting

    [2] https://akaunting.com/

  • by dustinmoris on 2/19/22, 8:36 AM

    I am the first one to dislike all these product management tools, but if I had to pick one then I'd use https://shortcut.com (previously known as Clubhouse before the shitty Clubhouse came along).

    I used it at a startup for two years and was so much better than anything else I used before.

  • by higeorge13 on 2/19/22, 10:53 AM

    Jira and Salesforce are probably too complex and too expensive for a startup. Shortcut is great for project and ticket management. On the CRM side, Zendesk sell (ex Base CRM), Pipedrive, Hubspot are way more appropriate for a small sales team.

    Also if you are interested for mrr and other subscription metrics i recommend Chartmogul.

  • by hbcondo714 on 2/19/22, 6:03 AM

    OP, always enjoy seeing these lists but your shameless plug link for Observe goes to a 404:

    https://rosslazer.com/posts/startup-tooling/observeinc.com

  • by sdze on 2/19/22, 12:46 PM

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  • by Asafp on 2/19/22, 10:07 AM

    Why do you need Ordway Labs for usage based pricing?
  • by geenat on 2/19/22, 9:28 AM

    Good list if it were 2019.

    Notion is always good