Guide
Chrome extension CRM for founders
A Chrome-extension CRM lives in the side panel, next to the person on the page. Founder CRM is that, plus it goes and finds people on X, Product Hunt and Reddit. You write every message.
What a Chrome-extension CRM is
Most CRMs are websites. You find someone on X, then you open HubSpot in another tab and type their name into a form built for a sales team. By the time you get back, the thread has moved.
A Chrome-extension CRM is the opposite. The record sits beside the profile. You add a person, write a note, and see what you already said, without leaving the page.
That is why founders who do their own outreach keep looking for one. The work happens in the browser. The CRM should too.
Browser-native vs HubSpot and other dashboards
HubSpot, Salesforce and the other dashboard CRMs are good at pipelines. Stages, deal values, required fields, a seat for every rep. None of that helps when you are one person trying to remember who you DMed last Tuesday.
A browser-native CRM skips the dashboard:
- It opens as a Chrome side panel, on the tab you are already on.
- The list lives in your Chrome profile, not on a company server.
- There is one next action per person, not a board of stages.
- There is no seat to buy.
You do not import a CSV and hope the sync holds. You save people as you find them, or you describe who you want and let a flow go look.
Not a LinkedIn-only Chrome CRM
Search for a Chrome CRM and you will mostly find LinkedIn overlays. They read a Sales Navigator profile and push it into HubSpot. Useful if your whole pipeline lives on LinkedIn.
Founders hunting first customers do not live there. They live on X, Product Hunt and Reddit: makers who launched today, people asking for the thing you just built, founders posting in public.
A LinkedIn-only extension never sees those people. Founder CRM rides along on the sites you already use. It can also open those sites in your own Chrome session, keep the people who fit, and file them next to the page you found them on.
What Founder CRM does
Tell it who your customer is. It opens X, Product Hunt and Reddit in the Chrome you are already signed into, keeps the people who fit, and saves them on your machine. Then it hands you a short list of who to message today.
It files names, handles, links and notes. It reminds you when someone is due. It does not draft the message, auto-DM, or press send. There is no plan to add that.
The extension is free. There is no Founder CRM account. Optional AI features use your own xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic or Google key, and you pay those providers directly.
How to get it
Add Founder CRM to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store. It is free, local, and needs no account.
It is one click from the store, with no zip and no Developer mode. Chrome keeps it up to date after that.
If you are shopping the category, start with Twitter (X) CRM, Reddit CRM, Product Hunt outreach, or the comparisons with OneUp Today, Bagel and Redreach. The safety page is the short version of what we refuse to automate.
Who it is for
Indie and early founders doing personal outreach for first customers. You do not need a sales team, a pipeline, or another seat. You need a short list of real people and a way not to lose them.
It is not for teams that live in HubSpot, and it is not for anyone who wants a bot to send on their behalf. If you are still the one writing the DMs, start with a CRM for indie hackers or CRM without HubSpot.
Questions founders ask
- Is this a HubSpot alternative?
- For a founder doing their own outreach, yes. It is not a replacement for a sales team dashboard.
- Does it only work on LinkedIn?
- No. It is built around X, Product Hunt and Reddit, and the side panel works on the page you are on.
- Does it send messages for me?
- No. It finds people, files them and reminds you. You type and send.
- Is Founder CRM on the Chrome Web Store?
- Yes. Founder CRM is listed on the Chrome Web Store. Add it to Chrome in one click.
- Where does my list live?
- In your Chrome profile on this machine. There is no Founder CRM account and no cloud CRM sync. Export CSV or JSON from People or Flows when you want a copy on disk.
- Can I export my contacts?
- Yes. Open People or Flows, choose Export, then download CSV or JSON. The file stays on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.
Install Founder CRM
Free, local, no account. Add it from the Chrome Web Store in one click.