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Free Chrome extension to find your first 100 customers
Founder CRM finds people already asking for what you build on Reddit, X and Product Hunt. You write and send every reply yourself, and your contacts stay in your browser.
Free. One click to install, and Chrome keeps it updated.
Thursday 18 September
7 to do.
2 today. Oldest at the top.
Sample data. The side panel sits on whatever page you are already on.
Free · Local CRM · Your choice of AI
Free, no account, no card. The first flow takes about five minutes to write.
Free. One click to install, and Chrome keeps it updated.
Find leads
Describe your customer once. It goes and finds them.
Type who you are looking for, the way you would say it out loud. The AI builder turns that into a flow: which site to open, which links to follow, and who is worth keeping.
Run it now, or set it to run every weekday at eight so the list is waiting when you sit down.
The AI decides who matches your description. It does not decide what to say to them, and there is no step anywhere in a flow that sends a message.
founders who launched on Product Hunt today and have DMs open
- Read the Product Hunt playbook
- Only Launch Team makers, skip hunters
- Check each X profile for a Message button
New flow
Today’s PH makers I can DM
Open
Open Product Hunt today
Visit links
Add makers from top products
Visit profiles
Keep people with an X account
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KeepAI
Keep people I can DM
Keep them
Everyone it finds lands in a CRM on your own laptop.
Name, handle, links, the page they were found on, and any note you add. Search it by name or by what you wrote about them, months later.
This is a local database, not a cloud CRM. No import job, no sync, no seat to buy for a teammate you do not have yet. The personal CRM for founders guide is the longer version.
Maker of Draftline. Small account, replied fast. Met at the founders dinner in March.
Building Hearthkit. Shipping a team plan next month, wants opinions on pricing.
Met at the dinner. Sent the deck. Closed.
Saved from a thread about local-first sync. No ask yet.
Add as you browse
Add anyone from anywhere, and read your history in the side panel.
Land on a profile you like and add them in one click. The panel then shows what you have already said to them: the DM, their reply, the note you wrote after a dinner.
Because it is a Chrome side panel and not another tab, the record is on screen next to the person it belongs to, at the moment you actually need it.
Jules Harlan
@julesharlanBuilding Draftline. Version history for people who hate version history.
History
Know what to do today
A daily action list, and follow-ups that come back on the day.
One next action per person, oldest at the top. Send the message and they drop off the list. Not ready yet? Schedule them for Friday or next month.
No pipeline stages and no fields to maintain. If the list is not short enough to clear before your coffee goes cold, it is not doing its job.
Thursday 18 Sep
7 to do.
2 today. Oldest at the top.
How it browses
It drives your own Chrome, signed in as you.
There is no scraping service in the middle and no password to hand over. It clicks through pages in the session you are already logged into, at a speed a person could manage.
That makes it fast, free of per lead fees, and far harder to flag than a browser running in a data centre.
You can watch every page it opens and stop it whenever you like. Nothing happens in a black box, and it only ever sees what your own account can see.
Today’s PH makers I can DM
- producthunt.comopened
- producthunt.com/products/hearthkit4 makers
- x.com/ottovosscan DM
- x.com/tessaldencan DM
- ·x.com/wynnadlerDMs closed
8 people kept, 3 new to you
The rest of it
Free, local, and yours to take apart.
No trial, no seats, no per lead credits. The only thing you pay for is your own AI usage, at whatever your provider charges.
Your CRM is stored locally
Contacts, tasks, notes and flows live in your Chrome profile. Export CSV or JSON from People or Flows. Optional AI features send relevant content to your selected provider. You can clear local records from Flows, Manage data.
Bring your own AI key
Use your own xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic or Google key. It is stored in Chrome and sent directly to your provider to authenticate requests, together with the content needed for the AI feature.
No account and nothing to pay
The extension is free. There is nothing to sign up for, nothing to cancel, and no seat to buy when you add a co-founder.
Flows are files you can read
Each flow is a short markdown file with plain steps. Edit it, save it, send it to a teammate, or download one of the ready made playbooks.
You can watch it work
The flow drives real tabs in front of you. Nothing happens in a black box you cannot audit, and you can stop it at any point.
Task preparation keeps you in control
Opening a task prepares its page without sending a message or casting a vote. Flows can carry out their configured actions, so review the steps before running them.
Keep reading
Features, pricing, guides, and the pages people search for.
If you want the product in plain language first, start with the guides. If you already know the wedge, add it to Chrome.
Guides
- Chrome extension CRM for foundersWhat a browser-native CRM is, why founders skip HubSpot dashboards, and how Founder CRM differs from LinkedIn-only Chrome CRMs.
- CRM without HubSpot for early stageWhy HubSpot is the wrong first CRM, and what to use while you are still finding customers.
- Personal CRM for foundersRemember the people you meet on X, Product Hunt and Reddit, without a sales-team dashboard.
- How to get your first customers from RedditFind people with a live problem, reply like a person, and keep the follow-up.
- How to launch without Product HuntFind first customers in public without waiting for a Product Hunt day.
- Track outreach from public conversationsKeep the people you meet in public, so a good reply does not disappear two days later.
- Best Reddit CRM for foundersWhat "best Reddit CRM" usually means, and which live tool actually does that job.
- Reddit auto DM alternativeHow to reach people on Reddit without a bot pressing send.
- Best founder outreach CRMA plain comparison of founder outreach tools, split by who finds, who writes, and who sends.
- After GummySearch, track the outreachThe research dashboard is gone. The follow-up still needs a home.
- Product Hunt makers with DMs openA playbook for makers who can actually be messaged, without a bot sending it.
- A free Reddit lead-gen stackThe free pieces that still work, and the paid jobs we will not pretend to cover.
- Reddit Chrome extension for lead gen: find your first 100 customersHow the Chrome extension finds people on Reddit, what it keeps, and what you still write yourself.
- YouTube comment lead gen for foundersWhich videos to search, how to spot buyer intent in comments, and how to reply without being the spam comment.
- Cold outreach without spam: how founders do it rightOne person, one message, you press send. The difference between useful cold outreach and spam, with examples from Reddit, X and Product Hunt.
- How to find beta users for your startup (2026)Where early adopters hang out, how to reach them with a human message, and how to keep the short list that matters.
- How to get customers from Product Hunt (without a big launch)Product Hunt has buyers and builders in public every day. How to find them between launch days and keep the follow-up.
- Free Reddit CRM for founders: what actually exists in 2026What free tools cover the Reddit CRM job, what each one refuses to do, and the honest limits.
- How to find customers on Indie HackersWhich Indie Hackers threads convert, how to reply without looking like an ad, and how to keep the people you meet.
- First 100 customers checklist for foundersThe plain list: where to look, what to say, and how to keep the follow-up until you hit 100.
- How to find your first customers (2026): Reddit, X and Product HuntA channel-by-channel guide for founders who need customers, not a growth deck.
- X (Twitter) lead gen for founders: find buyers without spammingHow to find buyer intent on X, what to say in public, and how to keep the person without a cold-DM blast.
- Founder CRM vs spreadsheet: which one fits where you are nowWhen to keep the spreadsheet, and when a side panel next to the conversation saves the follow-up.
- Free lead gen tools for founders (2026)Every free tool that still works for finding first customers, with the job each one actually does.
Product pages
- FeaturesFlows, the side-panel CRM, follow-ups and export.
- IntegrationsWhat it does on Reddit, X and Product Hunt.
- Who it's forIndie hackers, solo and SaaS founders, bootstrappers, Product Hunt makers.
- PricingFree, local, no account.
- How to installAdd Founder CRM to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store.
- Twitter CRMA local CRM for people you meet on X.
- Reddit CRMKeep Reddit threads and follow-ups. No bulk DMs.
- AlternativesHonest notes on GummySearch and F5Bot.
- Free toolsSubreddit finder, YouTube comment finder, and launch-day checklists.
- CompareSide by side with live outreach tools.
Before you install
The things people ask first.
- Does it write or send the messages?
- No, and there is no plan to add it. It finds people, files them and reminds you. The message is yours, typed by you, sent by you.
- Will this get my account limited?
- It works inside the Chrome session you already use, one page at a time, at a pace a person could match. There is no data centre IP and no password handed to a third party.
- Where does my list live?
- In your Chrome profile. There is no cloud CRM sync. Export CSV or JSON from People or Flows. Optional AI features send relevant prompts, page and profile content to your chosen provider. You can clear local data from Flows, Manage data.
- What does it cost?
- The extension is free. The steps that read a page and filter people use your own key from xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, so you pay those providers directly.
Get your first list tonight.
Install the extension, describe the people you want, and run the flow once. Tomorrow morning you open the panel to names instead of a search box.
Free. One click to install, and Chrome keeps it updated.
Add Founder CRM to Chrome
Founder CRM is on the Chrome Web Store. It is free, it runs locally, and there is no account to make. Add it to Chrome in one click, and Chrome keeps it up to date.
- 1Click Add to Chrome above. The Founder CRM listing opens on the Chrome Web Store.
- 2Click Add to Chrome on the listing, then Add extension to confirm.
- 3Pin Founder CRM from the puzzle icon in the toolbar and open the side panel. You are ready to write your first flow.
Can’t use the Chrome Web Store?
The same build is available as a zip for browsers that cannot reach the store. Zip installs do not update on their own, so come back here for new versions.
- Download the zip and unzip it. You get a
founder-crm-chromefolder. - Go to
chrome://extensionsand turn on Developer mode. - Click Load unpacked and select the
founder-crm-chromefolder, the one that containsmanifest.json.
Tasks and contacts are stored in your Chrome profile. Optional AI features send relevant content to your chosen provider. Read our privacy policy for details.