Cloudfuji (YC S11) Launches Open-Source, Instant-Setup Fat Free CRM

http://cloudfuji.com/blog/2012/05/14/cloudfuji_launches_open_source_instant_setup_fat_free_crm.html

by sgrove • 14 years ago

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sgrove4• 14 years ago

We've worked with some great people to make this happen, and it's happened really quickly since just launching Kandan http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3940180

The user and developer feedback has been incredible so far, and we want to thank everyone for that.

And we still have the hn discount for those of your looking to invite more teammates, just go to http://cloudfuji.com/promo and use 'hn-preview' (without the quotes) - just be sure to keep the awesome feedback coming!

mikejarema• 14 years ago

Congrats on the launch.

Quick tangential question: why the rename to Cloudfuji? Also I'm curious if the domain + social media accounts for 'cloudfuji' were available or had to be acquired?

sgrove4• 14 years ago

Thanks for the congrats, it means a lot!

We changed from Bushi.do to Cloudfuji mainly because we had difficulty getting the bushido.com tld, and it just wasn't worth it. So, we did the scrappy startup thing, rebranded and launched. As an unexpected benefit, the 'cloudfuji' name has been wide open on most properties, so we haven't had any problems there.

Happy to answer any other questions.

Eduard• 14 years ago

My rough estimate: Within the next 18 months, there will have been so many YC-supported start-ups that HN will feature YC-affiliated news on all its thirty front page slots.

debacle2• 14 years ago

That's sort of a jaded view, I think. There's plenty of YC startups that we never hear anything about.

debacle2• 14 years ago

Hopefully this is a very nice tool. The current CRM scene, proprietary or not, is full of bloated bags of broken features.

Good luck!

sgrove4• 14 years ago

It's hard to get a CRM that pleases most people and at the same time doesn't get in the way for most people - we have some strong opinions about why that is, and we'll be writing about it soon.

Thanks for the kind words!

Vekz• 14 years ago

We will be discussing Fat Free CRM and other exciting open source projects at our SF meetup this Thursday.

http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-New-Wave-Open-Source-App...

Big thanks to our friends at singly.com for hosting.

themgt• 14 years ago

It would be nice to get some standardization among app hosts. Are you guys supporting Procfiles/buildpacks ala Heroku? Most of that code is open source now

(disclosure: working on an app hosting service)

sgrove4• 14 years ago

Not yet, but we want to, definitely. We build on top of the Heroku and Cloud Foundry PaaS's of the world, so we haven't decided on the right way to standardize it.

Feel free to reach out to me at sean at cloudfuji, and let's chat a bit.

By the way, we've been impressed with some of the hustle we've seen from pogodan. Very good job.

jasontraff• 14 years ago

Awesome job guys, it looks great!

adjohn• 14 years ago

Congrats on the launch, this looks great!

Cloudfuji (YC S11) Launches Open-Source, Instant-Setup Fat Free CRM

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