CRM and sales decision
Sales Farmer
A competent developer can reproduce the core LinkedIn scraping, scheduling, and analytics features in a multi-week project using existing open-source lead-gen repositories; the paid product's polish, support, and mitigation for large-scale detection risks are what you'd be forgoing.
Visit website↗$9.99/mo
$120/yr
Per seat. Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off70 h to build
$25/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 4 seats.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Scrape LinkedIn profiles, schedule/send connection requests and follow-ups with human-like delays, track campaign performance, iterate message sequences.
What it still won’t have
- Polished, battle-tested browser extension with paid anti-detection/edge-case handling
- Built-in customer support and onboarding
- Guaranteed reliability of large-scale scraping and long-running campaigns
- Hosted uptime SLA and managed billing/UX polish
- Any proprietary heuristics Sales Farmer uses to maximize acceptance/response rates
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 4 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 LinkedIn prospecting service using Node.js (Express) + Postgres, a lightweight React admin dashboard, and a Chrome extension for DOM scraping. Core features in scope: (1) extension captures profile data and sends to backend; (2) backend stores leads, manages one-user accounts and a single paid plan; (3) job scheduler (Bull or cron) that sends queued connection requests/messages through a headless browser automation worker (Puppeteer) with configurable randomized delays and per-campaign rate limits; (4) campaign UI to create message sequences and scheduling windows; (5) analytics pages showing acceptance and response rates and CSV export; (6) basic email support/contact form. Out of scope: large-scale multi-tenant billing, Sales Navigator paid API integration, or advanced anti-detection infrastructure. Include input validation, error handling, logging, unit tests for core API endpoints, and end-to-end tests for the extension-worker flow.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 2 cited sources+1
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score60
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 · 2
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productSales Farmer — Home
- official pricingSales Farmer — Pricing
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
