LessAccounting says no to GoDaddy. Outright says yes.
written by Allan on July 19, 2012
You may have heard by now that GoDaddy has bought Outright (a competitor to LessAccounting in the small-business bookkeeping software space).
Here's a small part of the story that you may not have heard: About two years ago, we were approached by GoDaddy. They were interested in buying LessAccounting. We had a few calls with them but ultimately decided that we didn't want to work with them. GoDaddy didn't share our ethic of trying to make things easy for people, their support sucks, and they have low moral fiber. That's not something we want to be associated with. Our reputation and who we hang out with means a lot to us, as it should to our customers.
We don't have anything against the folks at Outright, and we wish them the best. It's just we are a firm believer in "you are who you associate with." For those of you who feel the same or have a moral object to using Outright now that they are part of the GoDaddy family, use the coupon code "NoDaddy" for four months free of LessAccounting.com. You can sign up now at lessaccounting.com/pricing.
About a year ago we moved all of our stuff off of GoDaddy and onto DNSimple.com, which is owned and run by a friend of ours. (If you're still on GoDaddy we suggest you move too.)
Update: The coupon code “NoDaddy” is no longer valid as of November 1, 2012.
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Allan loves his family more than breathing. He lives in Panama City, Florida & grew up washing cars at his family's car washes. Oh and Allan hasn't worn underwear since 2004.
8 Comments
Allan,
As fate would have it, I just canceled my Outright account. And it’s not really against Outright; I’m just not going to support Go Daddy. In fact I’m also a very Happy DNSimple customer!
Looks like I’ll be trying LessAccounting! As an independent software development, account is most definitely outside my wheelhouse.
Cheers,
Mel Riffe
Juicy Parts Software
http://juicyparts.com
http://melriffe.info
http://cvreg.org
Hi Mel,
Glad to hear it! Welcome aboard. Let us know if you need any help. :)
You guys just cemented your awesomeness…..again!
Cheers, Isaak
Three cheers for LessAccounting!
I moved to DNSimple last week. Freakin’ love that service.
My initial reaction to this blog post was your were just jel or something, but after reading the links, I want to thank you for encouraging me to stop using GoDaddy.
When the elephant issue went down I moved everything over to namecheap, who donated quite a bit of the discounted registration fees to save the elephants… and they’re service is good too.
Former Outright employee here.
Steven Aldrich (CEO) and Christie Strasia (Lump) are two of the most unethical sub-humans I’ve ever had the misfortune of working with. I LOLed when I learned that Outright literally sold out to GoDaddy. It doesn’t surprise me at all that such scum of the Earth would compromise the privacy of their userbase by turning it over to a company known for its low moral fibre.
Less Accounting: Stay More Awesome. ;)
Amen but too bad I missed the deal.