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freshworks.com
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freshworks.com is the company blog at freshworks.com, writing about business. Since 2017, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Show HN: A Forever Free Alternative to Pingdom/Uptimerobot/Statuscake”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link freshworks.com product pages (Freshsales, Freshdesk, Freshping, Freshrelease) when suggesting tools, plus a salary data and job-negotiation page. Comments don't judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: A Forever Free Alternative to Pingdom/Uptimerobot/Statuscake2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-08
What Hacker News says?
Ah, thanks for the correction. I didn't recall there was 4 years between startup and Schmidt joining. He says in the linked interview there were ~150 employees when he joined. https://www.freshworks.com/hrms/eric-schmidt-talks-about-wha...
Comment linking /hrms/eric-schmidt-talks-about-what-worked-and-what-didnt-while-scaling-up-google-part-i-blog/
on “How much do founders pay themselves? A European data set”Submitted Show HN: A Forever Free Alternative to Pingdom/Uptimerobot/Statuscake as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI don't know if this really qualifies as TL;DR, but they seem to have captured the high-level points: https://www.freshworks.com/freshsales-crm/sdr-sales-developm...
Comment linking /freshsales-crm/sdr-sales-development-reps/summary-of-never-split-the-difference-blog/
on “How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley”Submitted Freshchat – a modern messaging tool for sales support and engagement teams as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHave you tried using Freshsales CRM? - https://www.freshworks.com/freshsales-crm Has AI-based lead scoring, built-in phone, email, activity capture, workflows and more. A lot of SaaS startups have been using it and found it to be really helpful for their teams. [Disclaimer: I work for Freshsales (Freshworks)]
Comment linking /freshsales-crm
on “Ask HN: Recommended CRM solution for a SaaS startup?”Submitted Master the 5 Elements of Customer Service as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHas anyone tried: Freshrelease https://www.freshworks.com/agile-project-management-software...
Comment linking /agile-project-management-software/jira-alternative/
on “Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira”Submitted Heatmaps 101: What are heatmaps and how to use them? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCheck out Freshping by Freshworks - offers 50 checks at 1 min interval & public status pages for free. Disclaimer: I'm a maker of Freshping ( https://www.freshworks.com/website-monitoring/ )
Comment linking /website-monitoring/
on “Pingdom discontinues free plan”Submitted Is it down or just you? Check from 5 locations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFreshdesk. It's got a clean UI and is easy to use. They also offer a free plan for small teams. https://freshdesk.com/pricing And Freshchat for chat. Even they have a free plan. https://www.freshworks.com/live-chat-software/pricing/
Comment linking /live-chat-software/pricing/
on ““Cool” new support / ticketing systems for early startups?”Submitted Product marketing interview questions to help hire the right product marketer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe're using Front right now at work, and I don't really like it either. I can never merge convos that I want to combine, and I keep feeling like I'm probably missing (or losing) important things =/ I would not use this service again. This is more "ticketing" than "shared email", but about 10 years ago I used Freshdesk and really liked it: https://www.freshworks.com/freshdesk/ , once I spent the time to properly set…
Comment linking /freshdesk/
on “Ask HN: Best tool for team email inbox?”Submitted How We Created a Data Lake at Freshworks (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> “Through iMessage, business users are only able to send enriched messages to iOS users and must rely on traditional SMS for all the other end users,” the letter, which was sent to internal market commissioner Thierry Breton, reportedly reads. iMessage is an important gateway between businesses and their customers, and this is “without doubt justification for Apple’s designation as gatekeeper for its iMessage servi…
Comment linking /live-chat-software/messaging-channels/
on “Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage”Submitted Show HN: Free Branded public and Private status pages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere is one such product that I think might interest you - https://www.freshworks.com/agile-project-management-software...
Comment linking /agile-project-management-software/
on “Ask HN: What project management tool does your team use?”Submitted 5 step guide to attract new customers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm honestly surprised this hasn't been more prevalent. Freshdesk [0] did this way back in 2011. There's certainly no lack of talent in India, I'm not sure if it's a cultural or systemic issue that has prevented Indian startups from getting more traction. [0] https://www.freshworks.com/freshdesk/general/the-freshdesk-s...
Comment linking /freshdesk/general/the-freshdesk-story-blog/
on “Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Indeed.com job postings data suggest so”Submitted Fireside Chat with Tim Soulo, CMO at Ahrefs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI noticed a few sites were loading incorrectly so opened dev tools. Saw https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/opensans/v40/memtYaGs126MiZpBA-U... was not loading. Initially thought DNS but the domain resolves for me to 142.250.178.3. A Freshworks tool appears to indicate it is down: https://www.freshworks.com/website-monitoring/is-it-down/gst...
Comment linking /website-monitoring/is-it-down/gstatic.com?name=gstatic.com
on a deleted threadSubmitted CustServ Holiday Edition – Handling customer support with no support agents? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we went from 0 to 10,000 customers in 1 year as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GDPR in 12 minutes: a marketer’s guide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Redis from ElastiCache with Zero Downtime as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java vs. Golang for Microservices as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is a status page and why you need it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A complete guide to understand AI's impact on Ecommerce as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted All you need to know about welcome emails with example templates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experts roundup interview 2019: Maverick marketers share goals for 2019 as a story · 1 points
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