About

I'm Michel Modesto, a fullstack developer. For ten years I've built APIs, integrations and automation for small companies — and, often enough, the whole system around them.

That's an odd background for a site about CRMs, and it's exactly why I started one.

Most writing about these tools comes from people who evaluate them. I'm usually the person who has to make them actually work: wire the CRM into the billing system, find out why a webhook fired twice, explain to a client why the "no-code" integration quietly dropped forty leads last Tuesday.

A CRM gets bought as a sales decision. Six months in, it's an operations problem — and the things that break are boring, specific, and almost never mentioned on the pricing page. Field mapping that silently truncates. Rate limits nobody documented. A "sync" that's really a fifteen-minute poll. An export that loses the one custom property your reporting depended on.

The rules this site follows

ToolsI only cover what I've used. Where a claim comes from documentation instead of use, the page says so.
WeaknessesEvery tool gets a stated weakness — including the ones that pay me.
NumbersLimits and prices come from official sources, dated on the page. When they change, the page changes.
Client dataNever in a screenshot. Anything shown from a real account is a scratch workspace with fake records.
MoneyAffiliate links, disclosed at the top of every article that has one. No sponsored posts, no paid placement.

Why this exists

Search results for this topic are mostly written by the companies selling the software. That isn't a conspiracy — a vendor simply can never publish the sentence "don't buy ours, buy theirs." I can, and I do.

Contact

michelthedev@gmail.com