[HN Gopher] Launch HN: Polytomic (YC W20) - Get internal data to...
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Launch HN: Polytomic (YC W20) - Get internal data to your business
teams
Hello, HN comrades! I'm Ghalib, with my co-founder Nathan, and
we've built Polytomic (https:///www.polytomic.com). Polytomic is a
no-code web app to sync your company's internal data from databases
and spreadsheets to business systems like Salesforce, Marketo,
HubSpot, Google Sheets, and others. Business teams who live in
these systems often want data piped in from databases or
spreadsheets. Think about the salesperson who lives in Salesforce
and wants to generate a report there about which of their customers
have logged into the product recently. Well, all the user data sits
in a database outside of Salesforce and needs to be piped into the
right fields before this report can be generated. I founded and
ran the data team at PlanGrid (YC W12) for four years and was at
the crossroads of every data request from the business side of the
office. So many of the data problems I witnessed could have been
solved by sending data to where business teams lived, but I never
prioritised enough of that work because of how painful it was. I've
always felt guilty about that - my co-workers on the business side
worked so hard and I should have served them better. So we decided
to start a company to pay for my sins, by inventing a product that
removes the pain from solving these problems. The integrations
market is not a new one; some of you may remember TIBCO from the
90's, which was followed by MuleSoft and countless other vendors.
But our approach is different: we're focused on data syncing and
don't make the customer create a query workflow from scratch every
time they want to move data. Instead, in our web app, the business
team can first create a master model of the data they care about,
surfaced from any number of databases and spreadsheets with a few
clicks (or SQL queries). From there, anyone can sync any fields
from this master model to CRMs or spreadsheets with a few clicks.
For example, a single scheduled sync to Salesforce can combine
real-time data from production databases, fields from spreadsheets,
and analytical data from a data warehouse. We transfer the data
efficiently and automatically take care of necessary cross-system
joins while not storing any of your data. I've been on HN for 14
years and am always surprised by how varied the community is. So
I'm curious: does anyone here regularly work with Salesforce,
Marketo, HubSpot, or other CRMs? Do you face any annoyances with
data integrations? Or perhaps you have more general tales of CRM
horrors?
Author : gms
Score : 46 points
Date : 2021-02-25 16:02 UTC (7 hours ago)
| mjirv wrote:
| I'm happy to see this launch. We use Census for the same thing
| (mostly to get data from Redshift into Salesforce), but there
| don't seem to be that many other companies who do this well.
|
| I am interested to see how long it'll take someone like Fivetran
| to buy one of these new "reverse ETL" companies so they can be a
| full end-to-end solution.
| gms wrote:
| Thank you for the kind comment!
|
| And yes indeed, though our data model sits on top of any number
| of databases and spreadsheets. The warehouse is just another
| source that can be combined with others, rather than the only
| one.
| bleonard wrote:
| This post might be of interest to you:
| https://medium.com/memory-leak/reverse-etl-a-primer-4e6694dc...
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| Astasia went through the nascent "reverse ETL" world, including
| Polytomic, Census, and our open source solution, Grouparoo.
| cj wrote:
| Congrats on the launch!
|
| I imagine you'll be able to find a number of startups / SMB
| willing to connect their systems to yours to facilitate
| integrations like this.
|
| But as you start to go upmarket, you'll run into people who won't
| use your service unless you can quell their security concerns.
| Generally I wouldn't recommend thinking about things like SOC 2,
| ISO 27001, etc this early on, but in your case it might be a
| worthwhile investment earlier rather than later considering the
| sensitivity of the data / integrations and access your systems
| have to PII. I see Vanta's logo on your homepage, that's a great
| place to start for SOC 2.
|
| Best of luck to you!
| gms wrote:
| Thanks kindly! Yes, we've actually taken care of security
| matters from day one. The space is one I've spent years in and
| your comments are utterly valid. We also offer an on-prem
| Docker image for those who prefer that.
| cj wrote:
| > Yes, we've actually taken care of security matters from day
| one.
|
| Nice! In that case, definitely showcase that on your
| marketing site :) it was the first thing I looked for when I
| landed on the page.
| gms wrote:
| Yes, there's a lot that needs to be showcased :). Comment
| noted.
| vladkovalev wrote:
| Worked with Ghalib before - a great guy to work with!
| mlinksva wrote:
| Worked with Nathan before, long ago - also great! Come to think
| of it, a small part of that work did involve hacking on a CRM.
|
| Congratulations!
| nyergler wrote:
| Thanks, Mike!
| gms wrote:
| Haha, hi Vlad and thanks for the kind words!
| harryzhang wrote:
| Congrats on the launch!
| nyergler wrote:
| Thanks Harry! I really appreciate all your support and Lob's
| feedback has been invaluable :).
| gms wrote:
| Thank you kindly Harry!
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