Kelly C. built a half-decent CRM in about the time it took to research and price CRMs
Kelly C. won't say SaaS is dead, but the numbers do the talking. Kelly had spent hours researching and pricing CRMs, then built a half-decent one in about as many hours. The next day it went into the team's workflow, complete with a Gmail add-on and a LinkedIn extension. The shopping trip took as long as the build, and only the build left the team with something they own. Another CRM vendor just lost a deal it never knew it was in, picked off by the time it took to read its own pricing page.
I'm not saying SaaS is dead, but yesterday I built a half-decent CRM in about as many hours as I had previously spent researching and pricing CRMs. Then today I integrated in our workflow like Gmail addon, LinkedIn extension, etc.
— Kelly C., read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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