I understand your point. The reality is that no solution will ever be perfect, be it an off the shelf SaaS or my homebrew no-code build.
There are a few things here which help us;
- Airtable has all the integrations a human being could ever need. Our stack is Airtable + Stripe + Zapier + Wordpress + ActiveCampaign.
- General awareness of the concept of UX. You need a product owner who fiercely defends the product. And .. you need a company culture which treats employee satisfaction as something that actually matters. I know that these things not common.
- I have no viable alternative. SaaS companies in the tour & activity space struggle to make money and struggle to invest in their product.
- A community of contractors. Airtable has a large community of able freelancers and contractors who can come help us out, if needed.
This. I've just built out an internal CRM for my travel company using Airtable+StackerHQ.com and for my business, it's hands down better than anything commercially available... because it covers all the nuance of our individual situation.
2 months ago, I was a bit down on no-code, but the experience on building on Stacker was good enough to change my mind. Softr.io is also getting there, too.
Was scrolling through this hoping to see a mention of Spain or Portugal.
I've lived in quite a few countries. Here are my rents, always furnished, always in a reasonably good location, with the exception of Alexandria Egypt:
- Chiang Mai, 2012, Nice studio apartment, $250 USD/m
- Alexandria, Egypt, 2012, Simple shared apartment in bad location, $100 USD/m
- Berlin, 2013, Shared apartment, 330 Euros/m
- Barcelona, 2013, Very simple Shared Apartment: 270 Euros/m.
- San Pedro La Laguna Guatemala, 2014, basic 1br Apartment, $180 USD/m
- Santiago, 2015-2017, A few nice 1br apartments, about $700-$780 USD/m
I'm now back in Australia and paying $1350 AUD/m (about $1050 USD give or take) for an unfurnished one bedroom in South Yarra, which is one of the best neighbourhoods in Melbourne to live.
There are a few things here which help us;
- Airtable has all the integrations a human being could ever need. Our stack is Airtable + Stripe + Zapier + Wordpress + ActiveCampaign.
- General awareness of the concept of UX. You need a product owner who fiercely defends the product. And .. you need a company culture which treats employee satisfaction as something that actually matters. I know that these things not common.
- I have no viable alternative. SaaS companies in the tour & activity space struggle to make money and struggle to invest in their product.
- A community of contractors. Airtable has a large community of able freelancers and contractors who can come help us out, if needed.