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Oh boy, has this made issues and opportunities for my automotive B2B SaaS. My product's customer are car dealerships and most of my customers are on CDK. This
by blorenz 2y ago
Oh boy, has this made issues and opportunities for my automotive B2B SaaS. My product's customer are car dealerships and most of my customers are on CDK. This is definitely creating a void of data for them though fortunately my product won't fail without the expected DMS data. In terms of opportunity, dealers had paperwork that would be generated for the F/I department from CDK which I was able to port into my SaaS and prefill with data we can capture at the time of sale. All the praise is due for FOSS like `pdf-lib` that I was able to incorporate in a matter of a few hours. All the disdain for Adobe Acrobat Pro which fought me tooth and nail when converting their paperwork to fillable PDF forms ( - if you're the Product Manager on that then please get a UX audit of it!) Currently, we are supporting our CDK dealers in this critical time by getting them paperwork filled and printed to keep the car buying experience going.
Also, we're hiring! I could use another solid dev and a solid designer that wants to create a delightful experience out of an awkward wait time in dealership. Challenges abound but persistence prevails. Primary stack includes React, Remix, Xstate, Remotion, Framer motion, Python, Django, Graphql. Contact devs@zipdeal.com if interested and we can go from there.
- brian-bk 2y agoWhat are cdk and dms in this context? I'm only familiar with them on AWS
- _joel 2y agoCar Deployment Kit (I jest, I have no idea)
- shrubble 2y agoCDK is the company that got cyberattacked; DMS = dealer management system.
- rootusrootus 2y agoCDK is the company name. Stands for Cobalt (marketing firm that got bought and has since been spun off), Dealer Services (CDK used to be a subsidiary of ADP called ADP Dealer Services), and K (Kerrigan, the international arm of the business, it was spun off). Should just rename it back to Dealer Services at this point. DMS, as someone already mentioned, stands for Dealer Management System.