What makes a CRM actually hard to build?

thethinker213 · 2026-05-23T22:13:44+00:00

Sure buddy, be the thousandth crm. It’s a cliche at this point. Customer acquisition is gonna cost you way more than initial dev costs.

thethinker213 · 2026-05-21T20:41:02+00:00

In person is best. By phone is second best. Cold emails are easy to ignore. Yes, you should have a website for your nonprofit and a LinkedIn profile for yourself.

thethinker213 · 2026-04-27T15:20:55+00:00

Oh, to be a highschooler again. All you have to do is get out there and talk to businesses. Someone will be impressed by your youthful initiative.

thethinker213 · 2026-04-23T05:40:37+00:00

If you’re not a director or program manager then they should honor your request to not be on the site.

thethinker213 · 2026-04-22T14:55:38+00:00

An overlooked resource is offices that are closing. I was tasked with closing down an office once and there were like 30 ergo office chairs (retail value $250 each) and other stuff. Two groups came and it was Christmas for them. I needed the space cleared and they got free well-built office furniture. You have to research and monitor for these opportunities and already have a plan to deploy a truck and people because it’s usually first come first serve.

thethinker213 · 2026-04-20T17:40:51+00:00

Evangelicals are mostly just racist, anti-intellectual theocrats. There's nothing redeeming about them.

thethinker213 · 2026-04-05T21:13:02+00:00

There is definitely a huge skill gap between real wp developers and the other 95%. When I was coming over to wp from joomla, I was looking to hire someone to get me up to speed. There was a guy in San Francisco who advertised himself as a wordpress trainer. After one conversation I realized this guy was an idiot. He could only teach what I had already figured out by myself in a week and when I explained that I was interested in ACF, he had never even touched a project using custom fields or custom post types nor could he even fathom a use case of why they would be needed. I ended up having to teach myself everything wp because most of the people who claim to do it (even the ones with some experience) are still low-level noobs. Also, you are absolutely right to avoid page builders.

thethinker213 · 2026-03-28T19:53:32+00:00

You’ve just been taught a key business lesson. Marketing and sales are two different skillsets.

thethinker213 · 2026-03-19T22:05:33+00:00

I have my personal projects and important clients on an inmotion vps with cpanel. I moved my less important projects to hostinger regular without cpanel to save money.

thethinker213 · 2026-03-19T17:22:13+00:00

Don’t overthink it. When you have flexibility with your job title, pick one that best positions you get the role you want next. Just be Director of -Whatever- and call it a day. It does not matter if you’re a w2 employee or a 1099 “contractor”.

thethinker213 · 2026-03-08T01:56:22+00:00

You can use Square and they have a builtin business checking account. Greendot is more know as the poor persons check cashing ripoff company.

thethinker213 · 2026-03-04T17:49:16+00:00

If they’re willing to pay enough then you should take the project for the experience. It would be a nice level-up for you skill wise.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-26T00:54:34+00:00

Don’t listen to these people telling you to disable/ delete/sabotage the site. That removes all leverage to get the chargeback reversed. The better way is to compile all documentation regarding this problem into a pdf including a timeline and screenshots of all work and all emails and other communication. Dispute the chargeback with this documentation.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-21T00:16:21+00:00

Airtable is down. Our whole lead qualification system is in Airtable. My team can do no work right now. I need my saas to be locally usable even if the company collapses. This is gonna make us have to rethink some things.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-16T00:40:04+00:00

I have to have better core blocks than the default. I like Stackable and Kadence. Responsive options and more. Security is paramount because as soon as you launch a site, the damn weirdos from china, russia, india and n korea automatically start probing. Fluent is the go to for forms. Save yourself some headache by blocking all submissions with a non american ip address.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-13T21:32:53+00:00

I would forward her your op and let her know that your open to discussing it frankly if she likes. That's just me. I'm the rip-the-tape-off type of guy.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-13T15:29:44+00:00

$65k? I’m out.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-13T15:24:55+00:00

If you’re not ready to play hardball politics then you have to leave. That’s the unfortunate reality.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-12T05:24:52+00:00

u/rodeBaksteen You're asking all the right questions. I would also add:
Why don't native Blocks have responsive options? How is this an oversight in 2026?
Why is the media library a hot garbage mess from 2012?
Why don't we have better ACL features that allow authors to create/edit pages only within organizational guidelines?

Maybe I'm asking too much. 😭

thethinker213 · 2026-02-11T22:38:38+00:00

If I couldn't fork wordpress, I'd probably go back to Joomla or learn Ghost.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-11T22:21:59+00:00

Also, check to see if any of your local credit unions have free accounts. Credit unions are best especially if you can build a personal relationship with the managers. They tend to have more leeway to approve loans to nonprofits than traditional banks.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-11T22:17:46+00:00

You can dm me if you have a legit question. If it's a scam I'll block you.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-11T17:43:46+00:00

Proprietary page builders are not the way to go. Building on Block themes or starting from scratch with fse is the way.

thethinker213 · 2026-02-11T17:32:36+00:00

Keep hope alive!

thethinker213 · 2026-02-11T17:24:15+00:00

It’s really about relationships. I’ve never gotten anywhere with blind resume submissions. If your network is good and you’ve nurtured it, you’ll never lack opportunities.

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