Guys, I wanna know what SaaS tools are y’all using for your startups. The most common ones are:
- Google Workspace
- Teams
- Zoom
- Slack
- Notion
- Github
- Figma
- Jira
- AWS
- Hubspot
If you currently purchase subscriptions for softwares other than these (be it for yourselves or your employees), please let me know. It’d help a lot with what we’re building
We use this, because startup licensing. But. they are truly horrendous. If you want to use something overcomplicated that finds every imaginable way to distract you from the task at hand, use Microsoft 365.
There’s no doubt, it’s often improved, and given how endless it is, it’s seamless. But if you wanted to travel to another city, it’s like being offered a collection of things from your local hardware store and a pot of fuel. It has no opinions, so you had better want to spend time, or to pay someone to spend time, customising it and keeping the customisations maintained.
Take an example, a project. Has some related storage, tasks, news feeds. So you start a Teams site, it gives you all this. The invitation link people get soon vanishes to the bottom of their inbox, so hopefully they remember to come and look in the side panel in teams for the project from time to time. The chat for that team is buried there too, can’t be surfaced to the “chat” sidebar in Teams. And the todos don’t turn up in Outlook unless you choose the right one - Tasks, ToDos and Planner can all be used but they’re all independent and hidden in independent portals that your user has to remember to check in on.
Integrated in that it’s all Microsoft, yes, and all authenticated by your AD tenant. But not really integrated, thought out or planned in any useful way.
This is because 99% of teams users use those apps and options every single day. You can right click and favorite items in teams sidebars.
Tasks, todo, planner are independent because they’re different ways to handle those items, allows you to pick the one you want most. Also I believe they all are integrated with Outlook.
Also don’t forget if there’s anything you want custom or anything special you can use Flow to automate the entire system including anything external.
Your complaints kinda solidify the reason most people use and want teams. They provide multiple solutions to address the same problem so you and your team can determine the best option and workflow.
I also don’t think you need to customize it or keep it maintained, but you need someone trained in how-to use it to set it up and then explain to the team how they should use it to make things effective. It’s like having a car and a map so you can go anywhere and get there hundreds of ways and need someone with gps navigation to optimize your route for you.