# Twenty CRM

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Twenty CRM and 8 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a less bloated, open-source CRM with built-in agent features. Critics say a coding agent could rebuild it, and the readme draws complaints.

## Why people recommend it

- Agent features built in (2 comments): "No idea why attio/twenty are soooo bad at this." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529878)) "The AI integration is what I use most now." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292121))
- Open source, can be built on (2 comments): "Look at Twenty, an open-source CRM, and make it work in our tech stack for our sales needs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096686)) "let people build on it, but charge for hosting it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675320))
- Good-enough alternative to bloated tools (2 comments): "Look at Twenty, a CRM, and it's so much less bloated then Salesforce." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919413)) "a good-enough alternative" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893834))

## What people warn about

- Readme is poor or missing (2 comments): "The readme on this project is nonsensical, and seems to be full of trivial errors." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142492)) "There's no time to write a readme after writing 48k lines in less than two days" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142391))
- Little novel, built quickly with agent (2 comments): "Nothing really innovative about this project, nothing you cannot do yourself in two days with a coding agent." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142526)) "There's no time to write a readme after writing 48k lines in less than two days" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142391))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Salesforce](https://hackerapproved.com/p/salesforce.md): 34 recommend
- [DenchClaw](https://hackerapproved.com/p/denchclaw.md): 10 recommend
- [HubSpot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hubspot.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Twenty CRM", https://hackerapproved.com/p/twenty-crm/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).