CRM and sales decision
Huntly
A technical user can reproduce the core lead-finding workflow (search, extract, score, export) in about a week using existing scraping tools and the cited prior-art, but matching Huntly's scale, reliability, multi-country coverage, and polished UX/support is nontrivial and requires ongoing scraping infrastructure and legal/operational work.
Visit website↗$9/mo
$108/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off36 h to build
$120/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 15 seats.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All Huntly alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Run a search by niche and city → crawl Google Maps results, filter businesses without a website and extract phone numbers → score opportunities → present leads with click-to-call/WhatsApp and save/export.
What it still won’t have
- Reliable large-scale crawling infrastructure and IP/proxy pool for Google Maps
- Ongoing data-quality and anti-blocking engineering (retries, CAPTCHA handling)
- Polished UX, priority support, and built-in demo/landing-page generation per lead
- Legal/compliance guidance for scraping and outreach best-practices
- Country coverage tuning and continuous updates for Google Maps changes
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 15 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a self-hosted local-prospecting web app using Node.js (Express) + Puppeteer/Playwright for crawling, PostgreSQL for storage, and React for the frontend. Core features: (1) search by niche and city and enqueue crawl jobs; (2) crawl Google Maps results and extract name, address, phone, rating, review count, and website presence; (3) compute an opportunity score from rating/reviews/activity; (4) present paginated results with click-to-call and WhatsApp links, save-to-portfolio, search history, and CSV export; (5) simple user auth and a single paid account simulation. Out of scope: paid subscription billing, demo landing-page generator, large-scale proxy management, and legal/compliance automation. Include error handling for crawl failures, retries/backoff, unit and integration tests, and deployment instructions (Docker).
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 4 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Evidence score63
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 4
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productHuntly — Find Businesses Without a Website and Get Web Clients
- official pricingHuntly Pricing
- open sourcekrayin/laravel-crm
- open sourceArnasDon/wacrm
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
