I built a personal CRM that lives inside Apple's Contacts app
Details
- External ID
- 49142119
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I built a personal CRM that lives inside Apple's Contacts app
- Website domain
- persodex.com
- Launched
- Aug. 2, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Hey HN, I built a personal CRM that stores everything in the native iPhone Contacts app instead of another database. The goal was to make the Contacts app I’ve used for years actually useful.I’d love to hear what you think. Especially whether you prefer extending native apps over adopting entirely new tools. Since this is one of the first releases, i would love to get any feedback you have!Alex
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai crm and sales automation
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- CRM & pipeline
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- personal crm integrated with apple contacts
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an iOS CRM wrapper that directly interfaces with the native Apple Contacts framework (Contacts.framework / CNContact) and provides custom UI fields and reminders, which is straightforward to vibe-code in Swift/SwiftUI.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Queue
Concerns raised: storing timeline of interactions needs more structure than raw notes field
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