Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX

Hi HN! We’re Ulysse and Ned from Okapi. We’re making a modern CRM. It's kind of like if Airtable/Notion built Salesforce today. https://okapicrm.com When I was fresh out of college, working for startups, Salesforce was this big mystery to me. It's the perpetual second screen for everyone in sales. They were building this gigantic obelisk downtown. What was this thing? And why did every salesperson I knew seem to live in it all day, and yet hate it so much? Turns out Salesforce is basically PhpMyAdmin for salespeople. It's just basically two things: 1. A really generic database, and a UI for CRUDing your data. 2. An API and ecosystem of integrations. In other words, it's the back-office CRUD app to end all back-office CRUD apps. People call the result a "CRM" (Customer Relationship Management). Salesforce is slow and clunky. And that doesn’t matter because people don’t buy Salesforce to be delighted. They buy Salesforce to avoid being screwed