Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
by marktangotango on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:57AM
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The reality is the world has moved completely away from terminal. The speed and productivity advantages are well known, but no one cares. By no one, i mean sales and procurement who hold cobol/green screen apps in very low regard. In other words, it's very difficult to sell trerminal applications when the competition is browser based i.e. insurance claim processing
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Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
by yourapostasy on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:47PM
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Sell them what they demand with a browser-based presentation, then package the terminal-based presentation as a separate, paid add-on option for high-volume customers. Market the add-on as meant only for high-end customers who will take the time to train staff in the kind of high-speed entry that only the terminal-based presentation can keep up with. Sprinkle in some stats about some multiplier of efficiency and accuracy improvement, then let the customers implement what they prefer.
Between advances in ML-based OCR and dictation, I anticipate future data entry to get much more sophisticated, and demand extremely low-latency, quick-updating screens that might bring about more awareness of terminal-based interfaces in some situations.