Actually, don't use Pipedrive

[chadwhitacre]

Pipedrive (#851, #855) email sync started failing for me at #900 (comment). I emailed support and they emailed me back a form letter telling me to try what I already tried.

Tonight I was debriefing #867 with my dad and brother, and I found myself saying that the metric I would track for future jaunts would be not sign ups (givers, receivers, collaborators), but rather good conversations. I feel like I wasted or diluted a number of opportunities (Internet Archive, Sheel) due to a "close the deal" mindset. The economy I want has friendship (yet open, hospitable friendship! not cronyism) at its root.

Extrapolating, I'm not sure we need to track the sort of metrics Pipedrive exists to help us track—dealflow, dollars, pipelines of leads, prospects, and opportunities. I have experienced a pang of guilt at using Pipedrive as my mail client, because there is in fact a secret pipeline under the hood that I'm cramming people into. How manipulative! 😞

Now that sync is borked I have started using plain Gmail for [email protected]. It feels much more familiar and comfortable. There are no UI leaks (I double-emailed someone due to a UI problem in Pipedrive—gross!). Dropping Pipedrive would also save us $25/mo.

May I?

[chadwhitacre]

A middle ground would be to use Pipedrive without the email integration.

[chadwhitacre]

I didn't comment on Pipedrive as marketing is one of our weakness and I hoped the tool would help out. If you think it doesn't quite help with the marketing stategry/methods, +1 with removing it.

@nobodxbodon at #928 (comment)

[chadwhitacre]

Your subscription is canceled.

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[chadwhitacre]

@nobodxbodon Can you update the budget?