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Ask HN: Alternatives to HubSpot (in case they get acquired by BigCo)?

4 points by carlsborg ↗ HN
Hubspot builds for startups and small businesses and their product feels like its built by people who are passionate about their craft.

This company is 95% owned by instutional investors right now, so its doubtful the founders would like to sell.

We are looking at alternatives in case they get gobbled up by a larger corporation.

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tobinfekkes
> their product feels like its built by people who are passionate about their craft.

I have never once thought that about Hubspot. I daily think the opposite.

carlsborg
What do you use instead? We found the product and mobile app to be very well made - everything just works and fits in well together.
tobinfekkes
I don't use anything else instead. That's why I think it daily. I didn't choose to use it, I'm just the developer responsible for the integrations.

To be fair, I don't do a lot with the GUI, I mainly interface with the API.

I daily think the API documentation is built by one team, the API implementation is built by another team, and a third team uses/tests the API. And NONE of them have ever talked to each other. Or maybe one of those teams is missing altogether? That's the only way to explain how their API got to be what it is.

Dicey84
I'm a little annoyed at Hubspot at the moment and looking at migrating out.

We're a small sales team of two and the more we use the product, the more we need features in their next tier of subscription level, only issue is they only do a 5 user minium at the next tier and I cannot justify paying for three unused user licences.

duwey820
Curious what are the features you are seeking?
Dicey84
Mostly the ability to customise templates for quotes/rough orders of magnitude and simplify the UI a touch (we’ve got a pretty simple sales process direct to government).

Though, have been back to testing salesforce in parallel with copilot for sales and it’s looking promising..

noashavit
If you're mostly using the CRM for quoting, why not get a tool focused on that like pandadoc? It will be cheaper