Ask HN: Product Suite vs. Best-of-Breed

5 pointsJarekS4 comments

Hi!

Wanted to ask you simple question - would you rather use different apps for different tasks in your startup (CRM, project management, invoicing etc.) or all-in-one product suite?

Do you know any good all-in-one solutions suitable for a startup/small business?

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At the moment, my invoices are an Excel template. My proposals are Word templates, and my CRM is my Google apps contacts list. I'm still not very happy with that as a CRM. I augment things with trac as it has a good enough wiki to be malleable into whatever kind of pages I want.

I tried SugarCRM and found it very hard to use. The interface is borderline evil. I've previously used Tactile CRM (paid for account at a day job) and it was OK, and has its own quirks.

But the question is - would you use/buy all-in-one app that does all that offer/invoice/project management thing?

Yes probably. If it works really well, I'd probably pay for it good money.

Thanks for this opinion! I'll count that as an upvote for Product Suite.

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