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revmoo
May 25, 2006

#basta

HorseLord posted:

It sounds like you need to work with a developer.

It kinda does but it depends on the budget. OP what is your budget?

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revmoo
May 25, 2006

#basta

StabbinHobo posted:

four figure solution: pick an off the shelf saas crm and live with its limitations (NOT salesforce)

five figure solution: hire a development shop/agency, argue with them over specs and implementation details and pricing for six months eventually producing something 80% good enough

six figure solution: hire a medium tier laravel or rails developer that you can work with, have them incrementally chip away at automating and improving things over the course of a year or two

seven figure solution: same as above but hire 3 - 5 devs, and ops person and a product/team-lead person. deliberately use your existing business as a seed and test ground for a new SaaS version of the business.

good luck. most companies that are really just a glorified yarn ball of very specific business processes do not survive this transition. the act of forcing a UI and workflow change on the customer makes them realize that if they're gonna change what they're doing they might as well go shopping for someone who's doing the seven figure thing (and up).

I'm the medium tier laravel developer.

This is good advice. You probably want to go with option 1. Pick a solution and tolerate its shortcomings.

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