Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM

Re:Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM by marpstar on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:29PM (#36791909)

Accurate. The licensing (and the "kill switch") at a previous job were controlled entirely via Salesforce. Our app would "phone home" regularly to check which features are being paid for and we'd toggle them on and off in our app accordingly.

I had, at the same company, been asked to evaluate building Salesforce apps (using the custom programming language they provide) and contrasting that with building new apps on our own metadata-driven platform.

Developers hate it, business people love it. It won't be going away for lack of paying customers, that's for sure.

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Re:Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM by collinc777 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:35PM (#36791984)

Apex is nightmare fuel

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Re:Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM by chologrande on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:49PM (#36792178)

100% - having to submit code server side to just get compilation results is the worst development loop I've ever experienced.

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Re:Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM by iFelix on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:54PM (#36792245)

I'm really eager to get to the point where we can work on CRM extensibility and developer experience. We're hoping to bring traditional web development workflows and not re-invent anything. We opted for a multi-tenant infrastructure for the cloud hosted version so there will be some additional challenges to make it work in that context!

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Re:Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM by vxNsr on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @04:59PM (#36793288)

If you wanna see what that might look like, take a look at servicenow, I do basically all my coding in vscode, and ctrl+s saves to the dev server. they have one of the more robust developer environments I've used.

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Re:Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM by iFelix on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:01PM (#36793312)

great thanks for the tip, we'll try it!

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