A Once Powerful Platform that Has Withered on the Vine
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Podio extensively. We also use the Workflow Automations to help where Podio has shortfalls. Podio is the backbone of our sales, support, product development and management. Podio allowed us to build the workspace we needed which is fairly unique. The flexibility to customize your apps to hold sales, prospects, projects, support, etc was incredible. We share data from Podio with our custom SaaS application and vice versa. It feels like we have leveraged every possible feature Podio has to offer.
Pros
- Customizable apps to fit your specific needs
- Free to explore and use basic features until you grow into more
- Clean interface
Cons
- Crippling feature development leaves you wondering if Podio is close to end-of-life
- Severe lack of communication. You HAVE to figure out your own solutions no matter what you pay for the software.
- Inability to get even basic reports across multiple applications.
- Data is siloed in each app. It has relationships but you cannot generate queries based on related apps.
- Downtime. Podio has gone done far too many times for days without any compensation to lost time.
- Very slow page builds. Data seems to be coming from slow datasources and takes a long time to complete rendering.
Likelihood to Recommend
I can't see anyone engaging Podio unless it is for a very small project. When Podio launched, it was AMAZING. Unfortunately, it has sat stale for years on end while other, more useful competitors created better features. You will quickly find yourself looking for ways to migrate to a HubSpot, Airtable, Notion, etc.