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Show HN: Hack corporate purchasing

7 points by balin 13y ago

balin 13y ago
Hello all - new to HN and looking for feedback from this community. Specifically would like to hear from salespeople and folks who have tried to purchase for their organizations.
- gruseom 13y ago
  It looks like you've been astroturfing this thread. That will make this community about as friendly as a wild boar on fire.
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tmc61 13y ago
hello - I work in a research lab and interact with a lot of vendors for the inventories and equipments. This will be very useful in the purchasing when we negotiate for pricing. It will put all the people in one place while negotiating.
- balin 13y ago
  Great! Please e-mail us at support@roshee.com and we can get you set up with an account.
hsanch12 13y ago
I'm a beta user. Using this to buy sales productivity software for my small team. So far so good. I like that everyone can see what's happened so far. It has saved me a lot of time and we can also compare vendors side-by-side and keep everything in one place. Actually, as a salesperson, I would use this if my customers were willing.
TwoMisters 13y ago
Beta user here, sales ops team at a mid-sized, hyper-growth startup you've heard of :-) Trying it out to manage vendor proposals for various sales training, productivity tools, implementation, etc. Could also see huge value on the other side for our salespeople having more clarity into the buying process and decision-making criteria of our customers
AmiReader 13y ago
I think this would have been really useful in my last role where as a government contractor we had to get three bids for everything we purchased/rented on behalf of the client. We often had to set up events at the last minute and I could see this making our purchases go much faster. I hated tracking down whose desk a PO got stuck on or where we were in the bid process.
kitteus 13y ago
This tool will help large organizations like mine to manage the purchase activities in a better and consolidated way. The interaction and the ability to share the deals is great to have. Currently the purchasing process in most of the organizations is very fragmented and kept in pockets which results in over paying and not allowing us to leverage the efficiencies of collective bargaining. I would love to test this tool out.
- balin 13y ago
  Thanks! Please send a quick e-mail to support@roshee.com - we would love to help out.
elzbiette 13y ago
This would be great for companies that have multiple offices and can't get together as often to discuss vendors. Also to find out whether certain vendors had already received manager approval at some point.
ebazaz 13y ago
As a prior procurement professional, I think Roshee's concept is both innovative and much needed. Based on my experience at Siemens and at an automotive startup, we could have certainly benefited from Roshee's proposed platform to make more effecient purchasing decisions in a more organized and disciplined manner.
KhalPanda 13y ago
Not to be rude, but most of these comments are from accounts less than a day old. Obviously there's nothing wrong with asking your satisfied customers to commend your product, but it just smells "off" without a bit of disclosure.
- daskinne 13y ago
  Beta users willing to go out of their way to sign up and post on hacker news (outside of their professional domain) are definitely a good sign!
- joebobfrank 13y ago
  Well full disclosure, I'm a friend of the developer's and warned him that asking his beta users to comment would look sketchy. However, to be fair, all he did was share the link to the HN post on facebook and ask for comments, so all of the comments you see here were actually written by the users out of their own volition, they were just made aware of the post.
m_ike03 13y ago
As a beta user and vendor manager for a large online retail company, I have enjoyed using Roshee. It has saved lots of time and I will be recommending its broader adoption across our company.
aianus 13y ago
This appears more useful for larger companies. Startups can usually shout across the office and get approval to purchase whatever is necessary. At least until they grow big enough.
- balin 13y ago
  Hi aianus - we're targeting organizations with 25-1,000 employees. This appears to be the sweet spot for us (at least currently).

7 points by balin 13y ago

balin 13y ago

Hello all - new to HN and looking for feedback from this community. Specifically would like to hear from salespeople and folks who have tried to purchase for their organizations.

gruseom 13y ago
It looks like you've been astroturfing this thread. That will make this community about as friendly as a wild boar on fire.

deleted 13y ago

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tmc61 13y ago

hello - I work in a research lab and interact with a lot of vendors for the inventories and equipments. This will be very useful in the purchasing when we negotiate for pricing. It will put all the people in one place while negotiating.

balin 13y ago
Great! Please e-mail us at support@roshee.com and we can get you set up with an account.

hsanch12 13y ago

I'm a beta user. Using this to buy sales productivity software for my small team. So far so good. I like that everyone can see what's happened so far. It has saved me a lot of time and we can also compare vendors side-by-side and keep everything in one place. Actually, as a salesperson, I would use this if my customers were willing.

TwoMisters 13y ago

Beta user here, sales ops team at a mid-sized, hyper-growth startup you've heard of :-) Trying it out to manage vendor proposals for various sales training, productivity tools, implementation, etc. Could also see huge value on the other side for our salespeople having more clarity into the buying process and decision-making criteria of our customers

AmiReader 13y ago

I think this would have been really useful in my last role where as a government contractor we had to get three bids for everything we purchased/rented on behalf of the client. We often had to set up events at the last minute and I could see this making our purchases go much faster. I hated tracking down whose desk a PO got stuck on or where we were in the bid process.

kitteus 13y ago

This tool will help large organizations like mine to manage the purchase activities in a better and consolidated way. The interaction and the ability to share the deals is great to have. Currently the purchasing process in most of the organizations is very fragmented and kept in pockets which results in over paying and not allowing us to leverage the efficiencies of collective bargaining. I would love to test this tool out.

balin 13y ago
Thanks! Please send a quick e-mail to support@roshee.com - we would love to help out.

elzbiette 13y ago

This would be great for companies that have multiple offices and can't get together as often to discuss vendors. Also to find out whether certain vendors had already received manager approval at some point.

ebazaz 13y ago

As a prior procurement professional, I think Roshee's concept is both innovative and much needed. Based on my experience at Siemens and at an automotive startup, we could have certainly benefited from Roshee's proposed platform to make more effecient purchasing decisions in a more organized and disciplined manner.

KhalPanda 13y ago

Not to be rude, but most of these comments are from accounts less than a day old. Obviously there's nothing wrong with asking your satisfied customers to commend your product, but it just smells "off" without a bit of disclosure.

daskinne 13y ago
Beta users willing to go out of their way to sign up and post on hacker news (outside of their professional domain) are definitely a good sign!
joebobfrank 13y ago
Well full disclosure, I'm a friend of the developer's and warned him that asking his beta users to comment would look sketchy. However, to be fair, all he did was share the link to the HN post on facebook and ask for comments, so all of the comments you see here were actually written by the users out of their own volition, they were just made aware of the post.

m_ike03 13y ago

As a beta user and vendor manager for a large online retail company, I have enjoyed using Roshee. It has saved lots of time and I will be recommending its broader adoption across our company.

aianus 13y ago

This appears more useful for larger companies. Startups can usually shout across the office and get approval to purchase whatever is necessary. At least until they grow big enough.

balin 13y ago
Hi aianus - we're targeting organizations with 25-1,000 employees. This appears to be the sweet spot for us (at least currently).