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1. cmiles8 · 1789570824 · focus · HN ↗

   Salesforce has turned into the monolithic messy bloatware it set out to replace.

   Please VCs stop with the AI FOMO and find a few good startups to just go destroy Salesforce and give folks a simple inexpensive replacement.

   1. dd8601fn · 1789572226 · focus · HN ↗

      There are 10,000 “simple inexpensive replacements”. Always have been. If you need a glorified three object contact list… you shouldn’t buy Salesforce.

      Those just, obviously, can’t do almost any of the forty million serious things that Salesforce does, and real businesses do need.

      1. stefanfisk · 1789575756 · focus · HN ↗

         This is an honest question: which serious things?

         1. bobsmooth · 1789590682 · focus · HN ↗

            My boss recently added a custom integration to allow us to log hours on jobs. It includes GPS coordinates so we have proof of our whereabouts.

            1. stefanfisk · 1789619810 · focus · HN ↗

               But that’s not a salesforce feature but rather custom software. You could bolt that onto most systems.

               1. bobsmooth · 1789627394 · focus · HN ↗

                  Sure, but it's already integrated in the Field Service app we already use.

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