Ask HN: What's the best contact management solution for hustler founders?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907570

by pain_perdu • 14 years ago

6 11 14 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

When you leave an event with 10, 20 or 50 business cards what do you do with them? What platforms or apps work best for the busy hustler?

xoail2• 14 years ago

carddrop.com (currently in beta but I can get you an invite) [disclaimer: I'm the co-founder]

pain_perdu3• 14 years ago

Looks like a really cool app but currently the problem I'm trying to solve is the inverse: what do I do with clumps of contacts (new people I meet) I am trying to sort and manage day to day?

Example of one potential (but unvetted) solution: http://www.contactme.com/

I was wondering if anyone has personal experience with a particular app or platform that works well for them.

xoail2• 14 years ago

Oh I see... well right now our focus is in sharing contacts easily and keeping the parties connected. We do provide an organizer that is powered by search, ex: "PHP developer" will find contacts that has PHP development skill-set. What's interesting is you may have never known that person is a PHP developer until now.

il• 14 years ago

Are you looking for something different than a CRM? Typically people will scan the business cards they get from a tradeshow with something like Worldcard and import the CSV into whatever CRM their organization uses.

pain_perdu3• 14 years ago

For all intents and purposes I suppose I'm looking for a minimalist CRM. By virtue of being extremely early-stage (looking for co-founders and investors) the simpler and cleaner the interface the more it will suit my needs. Perhaps I could roll my own SugarCRM with 95% of features turned off, but I think there has got to be a turn-key web app that fits the bill out there somewhere.

josephby• 14 years ago

Pipedrive. By a country mile. Lightweight CRM + contact management. And they have a sweet iOS app.

saniuk• 14 years ago

Thanks very much for the suggestion! I just signed up and it's exactly what I wanted. Going to see how the free trial goes but so far it looks great. Very intuitive interface.

infoseckid• 14 years ago

"hustler founders" - every piece of shit which PG says is picked up and abused

pain_perdu3• 14 years ago

This is interesting. Would you mind clarifying what you mean by this point?

bradhe• 14 years ago

Herp. You just reinforced his point.

wdrevno• 14 years ago

I'm a big fan of Streak if your primary communication tool is email.

Ask HN: What's the best contact management solution for hustler founders?

Related Stories