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Practical writing on customer management, developer tooling, and growing micro-SaaS products.
Why Every Indie Hacker Needs a CRM (And Why Spreadsheets Don't Scale)
Your spreadsheet works fine — until it doesn't. Here's when and why indie hackers should move to a proper customer database.
What Is a Headless CRM? The Developer's Guide
Traditional CRMs were built for sales teams. Headless CRMs are built for developers. Here's what that distinction actually means.
Building a CRM with the TinyCRM SDK: Step-by-Step
From zero to a working customer database in under 20 minutes. A complete tutorial covering setup, identify(), ping(), and dashboard.
How to Track Customers Across Multiple Micro-SaaS Products
Running more than one product? Here's how to get a single unified view of customers without duplicating work.
TinyCRM vs HubSpot vs Pipedrive: Which CRM for Solo Developers?
An honest comparison. HubSpot and Pipedrive are built for sales teams. TinyCRM is built for developers shipping products alone.
How to Add CRM to Your Next.js App in 10 Minutes
A practical tutorial: install tinycrm-sdk, call identify() in your auth flow, and see customers appear in your dashboard.
API-First vs GUI-First CRM: What Developers Need to Know
The difference between clicking data into a CRM and programmatically syncing it — and why it matters at scale.
The Indie Hacker's Guide to Customer Retention Metrics
Churn, activity, and cohort analysis without an analytics PhD. The metrics that actually matter when you're building alone.
Building a Customer Pipeline Dashboard with React and TinyCRM
How to build a live customer activity dashboard using TinyCRM's API and a simple React frontend.
From Spreadsheet to CRM: A Migration Guide for Bootstrapped Founders
You've got customer data in a Google Sheet. Here's how to move it into a real CRM without losing anything.