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by iFelix 3y ago
It would sit in the second category. And probably even more on the right than the companies you mentioned on a spectrum going from "agnostic database UI" to "opinionated CRM tool with a rich set of standard objects/APIs
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by iFelix 3y ago
Betting on user's laziness is usually a good path! I mentioned it in another comment but I think the way we log activities is something that will evolve a lot with good connectors and LLMs. And once you have the right data logged you c
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by iFelix 3y ago
Salesforce is the end-goal but we wouldn't be a serious alternative for enterprise customers today. Our strategy is to start working with companies in our YC batch which have relatively simple needs, and then deliver improvements fast
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by iFelix 3y ago
Yes, I also think logging calls/meetings will become a thing of the past with LLMs and good integrations.
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by iFelix 3y ago
Interesting! Hubspot launched a chat interface[1] but it doesn't have that component you describe where it pro-actively asks you for things. I think logging will eventually become much less painful than it is today with good integratio
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by iFelix 3y ago
Nice! Agree this could be great. Is this hosted as an API somewhere?
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by iFelix 3y ago
In terms of UI, Notion has been our main source of inspiration. Targeting the bucket of Salespeople who enjoy the Notion UI is definitely a smaller one than those who know how to use Salesforce, but I feel like it might be a faster-growing
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by iFelix 3y ago
Yes agree being open-source is not enough of an argument to win. It will help us build a community, foster innovation and thus making the product better. But at the end of the day, I agree the product needs to be the best for users, not jus
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by iFelix 3y ago
Sorry about that, it's not an intentional dark pattern, just the result of a very short timeline to build this. I've just created an issue to prioritize this soon: https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/issue
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by iFelix 3y ago
Yes there seems to be a trend! Way behind the number of LLM-related startups, but still quite a large group within the current batch
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by iFelix 3y ago
Yes! We've setup the pricing page for this launch to avoid disappointing users later on but we're not enforcing pricing at this point.
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by iFelix 3y ago
The trendsetter here is Notion, not Attio
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by iFelix 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback! All of this is relevant and rather basic stuff I agree. Come back in 2-month and you might be surprised how much of it has been implemented :) Launching early here was a way to get feedback from developers and thou
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by iFelix 3y ago
Haha, if we were able to replicate the notion experience in 2 months that's a great compliment! The difference will come from the fact that we hold structured data. Notion doesn't know that a person is a person and a company is a
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by iFelix 3y ago
I really like the metadata-driven approach of Iceburg, great work. I don't have a strong opinion on licensing. We were setup as MIT until last week and ahead of this launch I thought that if for whatever reason we were moving to a more
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by iFelix 3y ago
Haha, I was waiting for a comment on programming language choice. It was my first time with JS on the backend and I really enjoy the dev experience with Nest. Sadly, we can't please everyone
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by iFelix 3y ago
Yes good point, going with a multi-tenant infrastructure makes this very challenging as they can't ever leave anyone behind
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by iFelix 3y ago
We initially though pitching "Segment-native" or "Warehouse-native" as one of our key differentiating feature (we haven't build any of that yet). I agree nailing this would make a big difference
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by iFelix 3y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write this up! I'd love to chat more, especially on database design. I will reach out
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by iFelix 3y ago
Yes it will! Not sure if you're going to self-host but we haven't published any click-to-deploy buttons yet so let us know if you'd like to self-host and have issues doing it
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by iFelix 3y ago
If you self-host then that's easy since you can read directly from your own Postgres. We have a GraphQL API but I have to say I we didn't think much about how we could make it easier for people to export data if they don't se
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by iFelix 3y ago
Thank you!
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by iFelix 3y ago
Good summary! And Microsoft through the Productivity apps? (Word, Excel...)
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by iFelix 3y ago
Thanks! 1 - We should have that soon yes 2 - Auto-activate would be based on what kind of trigger? 3 - We'll work on that and creating a strong community 4 - Good to know it's also a customer priority and not just dev obsession!
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by iFelix 3y ago
Curious why did you think about building you own? For us the frustration came primarily from the design, the developer experience to extend/customize, and the way data is pulled and fetched. I think that if we nail those 3 points, we
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by iFelix 3y ago
You guessed it!
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by iFelix 3y ago
2 competitors which I think are getting things right on the UI front are Attio [1] and Folk [2]. It's not as powerful as Salesforce and the data structure is very loose, but they have done a good job with the user-experience. They are
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by iFelix 3y ago
I mentioned it in another comment but Odoo is one of the best example of how open source could help us build that ecosystem. It has allowed them to work with a network of web agencies that customize and implement their solution Product surf
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by iFelix 3y ago
Do you have a specific use-case in mind that this license is blocking?
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by iFelix 3y ago
Good points thank you. Right now we are starting to work with companies in our YC batch which have relatively simple needs, probably like yours (founders doing sales, less than 1000 contacts, etc.). Our goal is to deliver fast enough so tha

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