Eric Rea's company replaced Jira, Salesloft, Gainsight and more with its own tools
Eric Rea says that in the past year his company replaced more than 10 software tools it used to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on, including Jira, Salesloft, Sigma, Gainsight and Dialpad. They built the replacements themselves and they aren't slowing down. The surprising part: saving money wasn't the reason. They started because they were tired of working around the limitations of their own software. That's a worse sign for SaaS than a price war. You can match a price. You can't match software that bends to exactly one company.
Saving, as stated by the author: tools they used to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on
In the past year, we've replaced 10+ software tools we used to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on. Jira, Salesloft, Sigma, Gainsight, Dialpad, and more.
We built the replacements ourselves. And we're not slowing down.
The crazy part is that we didn't start doing this to save money. We started because we were tired of working around the limitations of our own software.
— Eric Rea, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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