Home
Starting Up
Case Studies DB
Products
Ideas DB
Vibe Coding Tools
Subscribe to IH+
Starting Up
Case Studies
Ideas DB
Products DB
Join
3
Likes
0
Bookmarks
7
Comments
Report
Do you use a CRM?
by
Richard Chu
If so, what CRM do you use and why? If not, why not?
Trending on Indie Hackers
30 days ago I posted here with $0 revenue. Here's what actually happened next.
121 comments
I used $30,983 of AI tokens last month in Claude code on $200/mo plan
90 comments
my reddit post got 600K+ views. here's exactly what i did
54 comments
How to spot high-intent customers in 5 minutes, for free.
43 comments
I turned someone’s tweet into an app idea and it has made ~$3000 so far in 4 months.
37 comments
I Built a Habit Tracker SaaS Alone in 6 Weeks (No CS Degree, No Team). Here's Exactly How
34 comments
I'm on HubSpot and Pipedrive. But always keen to try new solutions. Any recommendation @richardchu
Don't really have any recommendations. I haven't personally used a CRM and was just curious whether other indie hackers did.
Honestly lots of CRMs seem overly complicated for what an indie hacker might need. Potentially there's room for a simpler alternative?
Then again, it seems like people seem to do fine with just using a spreadsheet or other free tools.
If you're comfortable with Spreadsheet, maybe you should take one step forward and give Airtable / Notion a try. Just google it :)
If you want to bootstrap, just use a spreadsheet or a Trello/Asana kanban board. It's super easy, you can plug it in Zapier, and basically free.
For sales purposes, Pipedrive is cheap and performing
Lots of options. Personally prefer the free HubspotCRM. Love its notifications when the recipient has read your emails. Also manages Deals, auto records the company name based on the contact's email address.
Also use https://www.labnol.org/internet/personalized-mail-merge-in-gmail/20981/ script for mass mailing (I mean emailing 20 - 30 ppl. Not spamming).
I use Pat Walls tool he created Pigeon. As it's the backbone of my startup. With it, it helped me accelerate getting a lot my cold leads quicker and alot of follow-ups were automatically done via Pigeon -- just an overall powerful tool without it wouldn't be where I am now.
I use a spreadsheet -- I wish my format was better -- I'm happy to share if you're interested. For one person just starting out I figure a spreadsheet would cut it.