Building Your First CRM Stack as a Solo Dev: A Practical Guide

Building Your First CRM Stack as a Solo Dev: A Practical Guide You're a founder who codes. You've got a product. Now you need to track customers, follow up on deals, and not lose sleep over a spreadsheet breaking at 2 AM. The honest truth? Most CRM guides are written for sales managers with 10-person teams. Not for you. The Problem with "Enterprise CRM for Founders" When you search "CRM for solo founders," you get: Salesforce tutorials aimed at VP of Sales Pipedrive training on forecasting for scaling teams HubSpot "best practices" that assume you have marketing automation needs None of this applies when you're one person juggling code, customer conversations, and keeping the lights on. What You Actually Need As a solo dev-founder, your CRM stack needs exactly three things: 1. A Single Source of Truth for Customer Data Not a spreadsheet (fragile), not scattered Slack DMs (unscalable), not your email inbox (chaos). One place where every customer interaction, deal status, and note lives—