Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM
If I was running a company of any meaningful size, I would hesitate to allow any 3rd party to become the OS of my company.<p>The OS of my company should be at the very core of my company - highly customized to give me an edge rather than to level the playing field with my competitors.<p>And that means becoming very good at creating and maintaining the internal IT vision and expertise to make that possible.<p>And that in turn means that I better have amazing IT capability in my leadership.<p>The corollary of that is: Without amazing IT leadership, my company is living on borrowed time, eventually to be crushed by dependencies on one or more 3rd parties like Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and their ilk.<p>So the only way I’d accept strategic 3rd party software into my company, would be, if I have the ability to fully fork it and take it in-house at any time of my choosing, with at most a very manageable and finite remaining financial obligation after the fork.<p>If Twenty.com has a business model, that can accommodate that, it might be onto something special.