A contacts table with deal stages is a genuinely buildable CRM core. HubSpot's actual business is everything wrapped around it — marketing automation, email deliverability infrastructure, and dozens of integrations — sold as one suite, which is a different scale of product entirely.
VIBE SCORE 95/100
The parts this build actually needs, each rated on its own — the average is the Vibe Score above.
| Landing page | 99 |
| CRUD database | 95 |
| User login | 92 |
Don't feel like building it? These are already made, open-source, and free.
Just pay. A contacts table with deal stages is a genuinely buildable CRM core. HubSpot's actual business is everything wrapped around it — marketing automation, email deliverability infrastructure, and dozens of integrations — sold as one suite, which is a different scale of product entirely.
HubSpot costs $20/mo (about $240/yr) as of 2026-08. That's what a working rebuild would save you.
Marketing automation (drip sequences, lead scoring, behavioral triggers) is a second full product bolted onto the CRM Email deliverability at scale is an ongoing reputation problem, the same issue that makes Mailchimp borderline Their app marketplace and native integrations into hundreds of other tools represent years of partnership work
Yes — Twenty, EspoCRM are open-source options worth trying before you build your own. Details are in the standard parts section on this page.