hey everyone bit of a sanity check / weird question. so i've been in B2B SaaS for about 18 years now. spent the last 5 as COO at a mining tech startup (took it from first customer to $6.5M ARR. lol and not crypto mining- real digging for gold type mining). these days i advise early-stage aussie founders on GTM. i've also been a CRM nerd for way too long. like, embarrassingly long. siebel back in the day (yeah i know), then salesforce, then hubspot for the last 6-7 years. i was a proper hubspot fanboy. would've defended it at dinner parties. no cap. now that i'm running my own advisory and working with early-stage startups, hubspot just feels like overkill. takes forever to set up properly. and half the stuff i used to do manually..logging calls, prepping for meetings, updating deal notes..i just don't think we need to do anymore. i keep seeing all these "AI CRMs" popping up every week. but honestly? they all feel like the same thing with chatgpt bolted on. right? so i've spent the last 3 months hacking together my own thing. anyway. i'm using it for myself and the startups i work with. but i keep wondering—is this just a me problem? am i just picky? or do other people feel the same way about their setup? if you're frustrated with your stack—hubspot bloat, notion databased, spreadsheet etc, whatever—i'd love to hear what's broken for you. not selling anything. genuinely just trying to figure out if i'm the only one. drop a comment or DM me. keen to swap war stories. cheers, sachee — https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachee
