Let's all be honest... if you had ever heard of Sendinblue, you knew they are a big name in email list marketing. I was shocked to see them come onto AppSumo. I read all the comments and questions with the majority of them being related to the lower volume of emails.

I thought I would try the deal just to test out Sendinblue and see how the CRM functions - shared inbox work etc. My use case was to at least see if I could get use out of the CRM/shared inbox. I could upgrade the number of emails after I got comfortable with the platform. FYI... I am coming from Hubspot, which would be probably one of the strongest competitors to Sendinblue. This also sets the bar pretty high in evaluating the experience.

Keep in mind I am small. It's just me and 3 part-time staff on my team. I immediately hit capacity on the team size. The AppSumo deal is only 3 users -- so even though I have a tiny team, I am out of the deal already without upgrading to the users to a recurring equivalent of $11/month per user paid annually.

The issue is Hubspot is top-tier product. I do have a few quirks, and I was open to a looking at another product. The difference is I get all the users I need in the free CRM plan of Hubspot, even with a Shared Inbox. Of course they use this to upsell on their other products, and I'm sure quite effectively. With Sendinblue, even with my small team, I can't use even the basic database functions of the CRM. That is quite a limitation.

I'm not sure who this deal is for... again, it's a great product. But, you would have to be tiny as a company to get any use of it. Really if you are that small, you probably don't have a ton of time to spend on software analysis anyway.

Could you guys look at some tweak to make this a true LTD deal? Right now, it seems it's just a demo or trial account. If you don't want to budge on emails, I understand... but then please budge on other features like the CRM. I appreciate you coming onto AppSumo.