| | Hello there. A quieter Saturday, but a useful one: HubSpot filed notice that its chief legal officer is leaving, admins are asking for tighter Breeze controls, and developers want APIs for task comments and meeting pages. Three new Marketplace apps landed too, alongside a couple of beta invites worth a look. In today’s newsletter, we’ll get into: - HubSpot's chief legal officer, Erika Fisher, will resign effective Nov 6, and the company has started looking for a successor.
- New ideas ask for admin control over who can upload files to the Breeze assistant, plus public APIs for task comments and meeting scheduling pages.
- Three apps joined the Marketplace: BoomerangAI for warm intros, &Open for gifting from records and workflows, and Knock for capturing and qualifying buyers.
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| | 📊 A spreadsheet app for HubSpot reporting wants 15 testers. The developer of Sheets, an app that keeps HubSpot data live in a spreadsheet, is looking for 15 HubSpot users to beta test it. The pitch is for teams that still export to Excel or Google Sheets to combine deals, contacts, companies and custom objects in one view, use formulas and pivots, or share a live report with people who have no HubSpot seat. It is meant to sit beside native reports, not replace them. 🌏 Marketers in Asia want LINE in the tracking URL builder. A new idea asks HubSpot to add LINE to the social network dropdown in the tracking URL builder. The poster notes LINE is a very popular network in Thailand and Japan, so teams running campaigns there cannot pick it from the list today. If you track LINE traffic by hand today, adding your vote to the idea is the quickest way to show HubSpot the demand. | |
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| | ⚖️ HubSpot's chief legal officer will resign on Nov 6. In a Form 8-K filed with the SEC on Oct 9, HubSpot said Erika Fisher, its Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, told the company on Oct 8 that she will resign effective Nov 6 to pursue another professional opportunity. The filing says the decision was not the result of any disagreement with the company. She stays in the role until then, and HubSpot has started searching for a successor. 📞 How do you wash Australian numbers before reps dial? A developer asks how teams check Australian contacts against the Do Not Call Register before calling from HubSpot. They found no built-in check and nothing on the Marketplace, leaving list exports to donotcall.gov.au and re-imports, or relying on the dialler. A community manager says it likely needs a third-party integration. The poster, who built a similar UK tool, also asks about re-washing every 30 days. ✅ Run these checks before adding another workflow. A small HubSpot and RevOps consultancy shared the checklist it uses before building new automation. It starts by asking whether two workflows can update the same property, and if so, which one should control it, and whether every lead has an owner. It is a useful habit for any portal where workflows have piled up over the years. 🎫 Support teams want ticket phases on top of statuses. A software company running a Help Desk pipeline and a separate Updates pipeline asks for broader ticket phases that do not change the ticket status. They want phases such as Planning, Testing and Ready for Prod while still using statuses like Waiting on Us, Waiting on Customer and Scheduled, so a ticket could read Testing: Waiting on Customer. ⏱️ An Academy exam cut out after a few minutes. One learner says their Revenue Operations certification exam ended abruptly a few minutes after starting. It locked them out for 12 hours and still counted as an attempt. If you are sitting a certification this weekend, it may be worth checking your connection before you begin. | |
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| | 🔒 Admins want to control who uploads files to Breeze. A new idea asks for admin control over file uploads in the Breeze assistant, so admins could decide which users may upload files. The poster frames it as internal governance, a way to cut the risk of unwanted files being uploaded. It follows other recent requests for finer Breeze permissions. 🧩 Developers ask for task comment and meeting page APIs. One idea asks for a public API to create and read comments on CRM tasks, since the Tasks API only updates the task body and a separate note sits outside the comment thread. Another asks for endpoints to create, update and delete meeting scheduling pages, because the Meetings API can list links, check availability and book, but every link is still set up by hand. 🛍️ Three new apps in the Marketplace. BoomerangAI finds the warmest path to buyers at your target accounts, drafts the intro ask and tracks it through to closed revenue. &Open turns a moment into a real gift from the contact record or in workflows. Knock captures, enriches and qualifies buyers in real time, then syncs conversations, intent signals and meetings into HubSpot. 🐑 DupliCat offers Enterprise teams three free months. The makers of DupliCat are looking for two HubSpot Enterprise teams to test the app before their Marketplace submission, with three months of Pro free. It clones CRM records from templates, from a record card or in workflows, with date adjustments, owner rules, pipeline and stage mapping, selected associations and separate copies of deal line items. Enterprise is required for its custom-object permissions. 🔍 The Retrieve Sequence endpoint may skip email patterns. A developer reports that the Retrieve Sequence endpoint does not return the emailPattern attribute, even though the documentation says it should appear for email steps. They shared their request and response and ask whether they are doing something wrong. If you build on the sequences API, check your own responses before relying on that field. | |
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| | Three remote roles posted in the last two weeks, each linked to its own posting with the source named. Each posting is linked from the source named on its line, with the date it was posted. Check the details on the posting itself. | |
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