Personal CRM
Personal CRM for founders
A personal CRM for founders is a list of people you met in public and intend to stay in touch with. Not a birthday tracker, and not a sales org. Names, threads, notes, and a follow-up, sitting next to the conversation.
Personal, not a sales org
Search for a personal CRM and you get two piles. One is networking software: remember everyone you have ever met, log coffees, never forget a birthday. The other is a sales CRM wearing lighter copy.
Founders hunting first customers need a third thing. The people on the list did not come from a conference badge scan. They came from a comment, a launch, a reply on X. You might never meet them in person. You still need to know who they are next week.
That is a personal CRM in the old sense: people you care about staying in conversation with. The source is public internet, not your address book.
What to remember
Keep the record boring and complete enough to write the next message:
- Name and handle.
- The URL of the thread or profile.
- The problem they named, in their words.
- What you said, so you do not pitch twice.
- When to look again.
Skip company firmographics unless they help you talk. Skip pipeline stages. Skip anything you would only fill in because a form asked. A personal CRM that takes ten minutes to update will not get updated.
The list has to live next to the conversation
A personal CRM in another tab has the same failure as a spreadsheet. You are on the profile. The record is somewhere else. You tell yourself you will file it later, and later is Friday.
Founders already work in the browser: X, Product Hunt, Reddit, email. A Chrome side panel is the honest place for the list. You add the person while you are looking at them. The follow-up opens the same page.
What Founder CRM keeps
Founder CRM is a free Chrome extension built as a personal CRM for that outreach job. Describe who you want. It finds people on X, Product Hunt and Reddit in your own session, saves them locally, and reminds you when someone is due. You write every message.
There is no Founder CRM account and no cloud CRM. Optional AI uses your own provider key. Chrome Web Store approval is coming soon. Install Founder CRM from the install page if you want it today.
If you arrived from "CRM for indie hackers," start with that guide. If you want the browser-native category, read Chrome extension CRM for founders. The habit of not losing people is in track outreach from public conversations.
Questions founders ask
- How is this different from a notes app?
- Notes hold text. A personal CRM holds a person, a source URL, and a date to come back. The reminder is the point.
- Does it sync to my phone?
- No. The list lives in your Chrome profile on this machine. It is meant to sit beside the conversation in the browser.
- Is this a sales CRM?
- No. There are no seats, stages, or deal objects. It is a personal list for founders doing their own outreach.
- Does it send messages?
- No. It finds people, files them and reminds you. You type and send.
Install Founder CRM
A local Chrome CRM for the people you meet on X, Product Hunt and Reddit. Free, no account. You write every message.