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Has anyone actually made a CRM work for personal life?

I'm looking for that super organized person who's moved a lot to test what I made and give me feedback so I can make it better. I built it, so full bias disclosure up front.

some context. I've always been a little confused why nobody uses CRMs for personal stuff. the need is clearly there... remembering birthdays, your friend's kids names, who just moved where, the interview you promised to ask about. but every CRM is structurally a pipeline. leads, stages, deals

so this year I built a personal CRM. friends and family, not sales. and to be clear about my goal: I'm NOT trying to scale this to everyone. I think there are maybe 1000 people out there who are this intentional about their relationships... the very organized person who wants every detail about their people in one place and to be reminded at the right time. I moved cities four times and that's exactly when your people scatter and the details start slipping. it's extremely niche and I think that's fine. The personal CRMs that came before (Monica, Dex, Clay) all seem to drift toward professional networking eventually because that's where the money is, and then the personal user is orphaned again.

what I did differently... input can be natural language. you type something like: met Jess at happy hour, nurse at NYU, just moved here from Nashville. and the contact builds itself. because no normal human will ever backfill 200 people into forms. (but you can also import your phone contacts as a starting point) the fields are personal life shaped too. pets, food preferences, how we met, check in reminders.

so if that's you... you've moved a bunch and your people are scattered across cities.. I would LOVE for you to try it and tell me what doesn't work. not what's nice about it. what's broken, what's missing, what you expected it to do that it doesn't. that feedback is worth more to me than any amount of signups.

it's called YourPond (YourPond.io) and there is a free version and a paid. and if you actually put it through its paces and come back with real feedback, I'll comp you the paid version as a thank you... I'm one person covering the bills so I can't do that for everyone, but genuine testers, absolutely. I'll be in the comments and I'd seriously love love love thoughts!

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