Thomas des Francs

Twenty - The #1 open-source CRM

Twenty is a modern, open-source CRM alternative to Salesforce—fully customizable, affordable, and powered by the community.

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Thomas des Francs

Hey everyone 👋

Thomas here, co-founder of Twenty.

At our previous startups, Felix, Charles, and I each had to build our own in-house CRM from scratch—because nothing out there was customizable enough for our needs. The only real alternative was Salesforce which came with huge prices, vendor lock-in and a proprietary language (Hello APEX).

We built Twenty so you don’t have to go through that pain. That means you can avoid the headaches of building a CRM from scratch or the frustration of dealing with expensive, rigid, and closed-off enterprise solutions.

Twenty is open-source, giving you full transparency and total control—no black boxes, no hidden costs. You own your stack, your data, and your roadmap.

If you’re a builder, tinkerer, or just tired of being boxed in by your CRM, give Twenty a try.

• 🌐 Create an Account
• ⭐ Star us on GitHub
• 💬 Join the Discord

Or just drop your questions and feedback here!

@thomas_df I can already picture how much easier my teams would have it with a CRM that actually feels like it’s built for us, not the other way around. Kudos to you and the team for creating something that gets it!!

Thomas des Francs

Thank you for the kind words @victoria_wu - means a lot to us!

guillim

So glad to see Twenty on ProductHunt ! After so much work I am so happy that all the efforts we all put in Twenty is now live and public !!!

Disclaimer: I am part of the core-team. Don't hesitate to reach me if you have any questions

Thomas des Francs

@maxiguillim Thanks Guillim 🎉 If anyone has any questions about email syncing, Guillim is the best person to talk to!

guillim

@thomas_df indeed ! ✉️ 📆

Tanmay Parekh

All the best for the launch @thomas_df & team!

Thomas des Francs

@parekh_tanmay Thanks so much!

Félix

@parekh_tanmay Thanks a lot!

guillim

  @parekh_tanmay thanks !

Max

Huge congrats on the launch @thomas_df, @cbo_twenty, @_felx and the whole @Twenty team 🔥🔥🔥

You guys are already the go-to OSS CRM, super excited to see what comes next 🤗

Charles Bochet

Thank you from the heart @mxcrbn, always there to support us! ❤️

Thomas des Francs

Thank you for your early support @mxcrbn ! The upcoming year will be very exciting 🚀

Bernat Fortet Unanue

@thomas_df  @cbo_twenty  @_felx  @mxcrbn You called it a (2 years ago?) that this was a great team. What a great product!

Thomas des Francs

Thanks @bernat_fortet We started it two years ago indeed, much more to come!

Aurélien Georget

Congrats on the launch! Without a doubt, the most exciting open-source project right now!! The team building Twenty is one of the best; their execution is amazing, and they are avoiding the most common mistakes. Keep pushing 🔥

Thomas des Francs

Merci @aureliengeorget ! Hope we'll fit in many stacks alongside Strapi in the future. See you soon for another OSS drink 🍻

Ugo VOLLMER

Amazing product, one of the best OSS product I've seen in the past few years!

Thomas des Francs

Coming from someone who sees a lot of OSS products, it means a lot - thanks @ugo_vollmer1 !

Bernat Fortet Unanue

Hi @thomas_df! I've been following Twenty since @mxcrbn mentioned it to me a while back. It's been a great inspiration at all levels, great job!

I'm very curious about the custom data model. Why did you choose to go the route of creating tables for each new custom object vs jsonb data? Would you do it all over again? I'm asking because I'm working on an erp-like system and I have to handle custom data models.
Thanks!

Rachid Riad

The best team to build the best product! Congratulations on your launch!

Thomas des Francs

Thanks, @rachidriad . Hope to reach one of the top spots on @StackShare one day ;)

Steve Hoyek

Awesome product, congrats on the launch! 🚀 Excited to see where this goes - awesome on open sourcing it.

Thomas des Francs

@stevehoyek Thank you Steve! A lot of cool features ahead

Valentin Chrétien

So excited to see Twenty on Product Hunt today! Probably one of the best OSS products out there right now, and I know how much heart the team puts into crafting something truly exceptional!

Thomas des Francs

@valentinchrt Thanks for the kind words ;)Building a CRM is challenging, but we will continue working to keep things simple and elegant!

Pierre-Yves Dubreucq

Having already tested it, this CRM is really interesting and very easy to learn... Compared to other mastodons on the market... Good luck for your launch !

Thomas des Francs

Thanks for your early support @pydubreucq ! And now Twenty is even more reliable, much faster, and now with workflows and permissions.

Ahmed Men

Huge congrats on the launch @thomas_df and team!

Twenty looks like a breath of fresh air in the CRM space! ✨🌿🛖

Thomas des Francs

Thanks @demtzu :) The craft quality of @Lazy has always been a strong inspiration for me.

Stéphanie Joly

Being a user myself, I'm very excited about those new features!

Twenty was built for builders. With the workflows being released today, our users are empowered to build even more!

Thomas des Francs

@stephanie_joly2 thanks for setting up Twenty for Twenty! The workflows you built are impressive – it's a huge change for us to have product data right into our CRM.

Gosha Shatirov
Launching soon!

Not every open-source CRM looks good and works great.
Looking through the Twenty I see all basic CRM features I might need in every new project.
And it's open-sourced — nice!

Thomas des Francs

@goshatirov Thanks for the nice comment! We indeed think open source deserves a great UX!

Marc Seitz

Congrats on the launch of 1.0. what an achievement 🔥

Thomas des Francs

@mfts0 Thanks so much Marc! Go OSS

Raphaël Bosi

So glad to see the v1.0 finally out after all the hard work. 🥳 I'm incredibly proud of this team and the product we've built together.

Thomas des Francs

@raphael_bosi Thank you Raphaël! The product wouldn’t feel the same without you. I think people will especially love the side panel you built

Evgenii Zaitsev

It’s great to see an open-source alternative to CRM systems that actually focuses on customization and affordability. After dealing with the rigidity of Salesforce in the past, this feels like a breath of fresh air. Does it support integrations with other common tools like email marketing platforms or payment gateways?

Thomas des Francs

Hi @evgenii_zaitsev1 ! For now, the best way to integrate Twenty with other tools is either with our workflow engine, or our REST/GraphQL APIs & webhooks. We do generate a custom endpoint for each object on our REST API to make it easy to call it.

Congrats! Definitely will give it a go. Great job!

Thomas des Francs

Thank you@min_zhou ! let me know if you have any feedbacks! my email is firstname@ twenty.com

Praise Philemon

Congrats guys on the launch. Used Twenty a couple of times and I loved how it felt — especially its design. It made CRMs less annoying. I wished its Zapier integration UX was a lot better though but Twenty is indeed by #1.

Congrats to the team!!!

Thomas des Francs

Thanks for the feedback@praisephilemon ! True, we didn't invest much in our Zapier integration as we are building our own workflow engine. With AI, it will be very powerful. Hope you'll like them! Did you try it?

Antoine Tocquer

Congrats @thomas_df and team! As a Revops I am looking forward to discovering it 🤓

Charles Bochet

@antoinetoc Feel free to give a try or reach out on Discord!

Thomas des Francs

@antoinetoc  Thanks a lot sir 🧡