DenchClaw
Ranked 2 of 4 CRM software by recommenders
A free, local-first CRM that people use for pipeline work and drafting outreach. Critics mostly warn about its security and its OpenClaw fork.
A free, local-first CRM that people use for pipeline work and drafting outreach. Critics mostly warn about its security and its OpenClaw fork.
19 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 53%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.1 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful for outreach and pipeline work
“Telling DenchClaw to "make it less robotic" on 300+ personalised drafts is still better than me actually making it less robotic myself”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” “Our HubSpot import seed skills have strong always on prompts for asking user before doing any action”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” “the value is in the pipeline, not the prose”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” Local-first approach
“the local-first angle is compelling”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” “Love the local-first approach.”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” Covers daily knowledge work
“outreach is maybe 5% of what I actually use DenchClaw for day to day”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” “this is where I do all knowledge work”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” Looks useful and interesting
“Looks like a genuinely useful implementation”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” “Nice, this seems interesting.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Built on OpenClaw fork, many commits behind
“Seems interesting, but I see it's a fork of Openclaw that's many commits behind”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” “Why would you build this on top of OpenClaw? Like, an insanely bad decision.”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” “you inherit both set s of opinions AND both sets of bugs”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” Security concerns about agent tools
“given how incredibly insecure all the "claw" agent type things are right now, does this really sound wise at all?”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” “Anything built on top of it is equally insecure and probably even more insecure.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” “Prompt injection as a service.”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” Confusing description and unexplained acronym
“the way you describe and deliver this project is very confusing to me”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw” “Neither your post nor your website explains the acronym.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw”
Other CRM software people recommend
The three most recommended other CRM software, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce | 34 | 121 | 22% | 9 | — | — |
| DenchClawThis page | 10 | 9 | 53% | 1 | — | — |
| HubSpot | 9 | 16 | 36% | 6 | — | — |
| Twenty CRM | 6 | 8 | 43% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
23 of the 26 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“you inherit both set s of opinions AND both sets of bugs”
“Why would you build this on top of OpenClaw? Like, an insanely bad decision.”
“Love the local-first approach.”
“Prompt injection as a service.”
“Looks like a genuinely useful implementation”
“the way you describe and deliver this project is very confusing to me”
“it does log you out of your Google once on the main profile, but once you log back in everything works perfectly fine”
“This is a month-old project by someone how has been suckling at the YC teat of release as early as possible; #YOLO.”
“claiming 25K online, might want to update that it's quite misleading”
“Seems interesting, but I see it's a fork of Openclaw that's many commits behind”
“the local-first angle is compelling”
“Neither your post nor your website explains the acronym.”
“the value is in the pipeline, not the prose”
“Telling DenchClaw to "make it less robotic" on 300+ personalised drafts is still better than me actually making it less robotic myself”
“Anything built on top of it is equally insecure and probably even more insecure.”
“this is where I do all knowledge work”
“Our HubSpot import seed skills have strong always on prompts for asking user before doing any action”
“Nice, this seems interesting.”
“outreach is maybe 5% of what I actually use DenchClaw for day to day”
“It has all the needed primitives for me like the markdown editor, graphs, etc.”
“At what point does this become an AI powered spamming machine?”
“DenchClaw sees what you see, does what you do.”
“given how incredibly insecure all the "claw" agent type things are right now, does this really sound wise at all?”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.