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As someone who has a B2B startup there is almost nothing in the open source space for Marketing/Sales Ops. And anything that does exist is really low quality.
by threeseed 7y ago
As someone who has a B2B startup there is almost nothing in the open source space for Marketing/Sales Ops. And anything that does exist is really low quality.
And it's because (a) most developers aren't exposed to non-Engineering parts of the company so they have no understanding of what problem to solve and (b) it is incredibly lucrative to build a proprietary SaaS solution.
- mr-karan 7y ago> there is almost nothing in the open source space for Marketing/Sales Ops There is https://erpnext.com/ https://erpnext.com/ which is completely FOSS built on Frappe framework. If anything, it is rather higher quality than most SASS solutions out there.
- bdcravens 7y agoIt's not entirely clear on their website, but I assume the full software is at https://github.com/frappe/erpnext https://github.com/frappe/erpnext, and they have a model similar to Sentry?
- PedroBatista 7y agoWord of advice: stay away from Erpnext, don't get fooled by the apparent "clean" interface. They might have some good conceptual ideas, but the implementation is horrific, their ops/delivery infrastructure a shitshow if even there's one, bugs all over the place and a product management that basically says yes to everything and finishes nothing. They are in part victims of their own success, but just look at their Github issues page.
- api 7y agoThat kind of software is not fun or sexy, so people have to be paid to write it. Same goes for accounting where there are few open source solutions. Boring as hell, and profitable.
- techntoke 7y agoThere is Odoo which can be self-hosted too and has a fairly generous open source edition.