Hi HN, I’ve been paying $50–$100/month for CRMs for a while, and over time I realized what I actually relied on day-to-day was embarrassingly simple: a clean pipeline view, basic contacts, and tasks. I liked tools like Pipedrive because the UI stayed out of the way, but the pricing never made sense for a single-seat, solo use case.

So I built Lifetime CRM. It’s a lightweight, keyboard-first CRM that runs locally in your browser. It focuses on pipelines, contacts, and follow-ups, stores all data on your machine (IndexedDB), works offline, and skips team features, automations, and dashboards I never used. I also added a “catch-up” mode inspired by Slack’s iOS catch-up view, to quickly review what’s changed since your last session without digging through everything. There’s a 7-day free trial (card required), and after that it’s a one-time purchase. No subscriptions.

For those who’ve tried multiple CRMs, I’m curious which features you actually come back to most in day-to-day use, and how you think about the tradeoff between a simple, owned tool versus a full-featured cloud CRM. Happy to answer questions or dig into technical details.