CRM and sales decision
Saleshandy
Build a narrow DIY outreach tool (scheduling, SMTP sending, tracking, and inbox) if you only need basic outreach; keep paying for Saleshandy if you rely on their verified 852M+ contact data, deliverability infrastructure, compliance certifications, AI enrichment, and dialer features.
Visit website↗$36/mo
$432/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$50one-off30 h to build
$80/mo8 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 3 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 Saleshandy alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Send personalized cold-email sequences to a list of prospects, schedule follow-ups, track opens/clicks/replies, and manage replies in a simple pipeline.
What it still won’t have
- Proprietary 852M+ verified contact database and realtime enrichment
- Built-in deliverability infrastructure, mailbox buying & pre-configured DKIM/SPF/DMARC flow
- SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR certified compliance and associated documentation
- Native AI Sequence Copilot and paid AI credits
- Built-in dialer, phone-number credits, and unified multichannel contact data
What remains hard
- Proprietary data
852M+ contacts across 42M+ companies with 50+ buying signals.Filter by industry, revenue, lookalikes, and tech stack. Every email is verified before sending.
- Compliance and regulation
SOC 2 ISO 27001 GDPR
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 3 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 minimal cold-outreach app using Node.js (Express), Postgres, and React. Core features in scope: CSV prospect import, prospect CRUD, template editor with merge tags, sequence scheduler that sends messages via an SMTP provider (SendGrid/Postmark) with per-account sending, basic open/click tracking, reply ingestion via IMAP/webhook, and a simple Kanban pipeline UI. Out of scope: building or pricing a proprietary lead database, mailbox purchasing marketplace, SOC2 certification, AI enrichment models, and a dialer. Require error handling for failed sends and webhook retries, unit tests for the scheduler and tracking, and end-to-end tests for import→send→reply flow. Provide Docker Compose for local dev and a Terraform snippet for one small cloud VM and managed Postgres for production.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 5 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Hard moats found in the evidence-6
- Evidence score57
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 · 5
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productSaleshandy — product
- official pricingSaleshandy — pricing
- official docsSaleshandy — outbound sales use case
- open sourcefrappe/crm
- open sourcekrayin/laravel-crm
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
