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I'm working on a very limited feature CRM for my wife who has started her own business last year and is now struggling with Excel to keep up with following up on client contacts.

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Love this kind of thing. What challenges are you facing right now? Are you using any existing software as an inspiration?

The datamodel is the most challenging. It's the first time I really feel its absolute influence on the UI (or the related level of code complexity), so I really need to think carefully about it. I'm in the prototype stage but once I start using real data I'm kind of stuck with whatever I've decided upon.

I've looked around a little bit but didn't find anything that serves as real inspiration. I'm really trying to build something uniquely for her and her colleague and then I'll see whether someone else finds value in it.

I'll keep you posted :)

For inspiration, you might consider pipedrive or airtable

Thanks! I did check Pipedrive before but didn't think of Airtable. What I'm building is far less ambitious, but thanks to your comment I realized I should have a closer look if only to get some ideas on how to do the things I'm planning to do.

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