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Cadence Desk
A low-cost contact list and follow-up tracker for cold outreach teams
- Score
- 40
- confidence 38
- Evidence
- 3
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 1
- named in sources
- First version
- 25 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2006
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Outreach teams set up campaigns and configure follow-up sequences at a desk, then capture replies and check daily follow-ups on the go throughout the day. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
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About this appAI proposal
Cadence Desk replaces the spreadsheet, Gmail and script setup many outreach teams run today. It keeps contacts, follow-up steps and replies in one place, so you can see who was contacted, who answered and who is due a message.
It is built for founders and small teams who do their own cold outreach and find mainstream CRMs too expensive. The core is meant to be open and self-hostable, with an API so your own tools and scripts can connect.
It does not try to be a full sales suite. No forecasting, no marketing automation. Just contacts, outreach steps and a clear record of what happened.
- Tagline
- Your outreach list, out of the spreadsheet.
- Voice
- PlainDirectPractical
- Why this name
- Cadence is the rhythm of follow-ups in outreach. Desk suggests a simple place to work. Two plain, pronounceable words.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Import from your sheet
Bring in a CSV or spreadsheet export, map the columns once, and keep your existing contacts and notes.
No member yet
Follow-up sequences
Set simple steps with wait times. Each day you get a list of who is due a message.
No member yet
Reply and status tracking
Mark contacts as sent, replied, interested or closed. Duplicates are flagged before you contact someone twice.
No member yet
Open API and webhooks
Read and write contacts and events from your own scripts, so it fits the tools you already use.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Your outreach list, out of the spreadsheet.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices, only that HubSpot is seen as too expensive. These tiers are a starting point to test, built on the idea of a free core plus paid hosting and support.
Self-hosted
Free
- Open-source core
- Contacts, sequences, API
- Community support
Hosted
$15 a month
- Managed hosting and backups
- Up to 5,000 contacts
- Email support
Team
$39 a month
- Up to 5 users
- 25,000 contacts
- Webhooks and priority support
Would you pay Hosted · $15 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. It reaches customers through content, open-source repository visibility and founder communities. Outreach recipients do not see the product, so use itself does not spread it.
- Do they become customers?
- Self-hosters are reached but may not pay. Test whether a share of open-source users upgrade to hosted for convenience.
- First customers
- Solo founders and teams of two to five at early-stage B2B startups who run outreach from Google Sheets and Gmail today.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and Show HN: Post the open-source repo with a short import-from-sheet demo and ask for feedback.
- Indie founder communities: Share a spreadsheet migration guide in founder forums and newsletters.
- First milestone
- Fifty teams import a real contact list, and ten pay for hosted within 60 days.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimTeams doing cold outreach avoid mainstream CRM platforms due to cost constraints
- Public claimExisting approaches using spreadsheets and scripts become complex and difficult to manage at scale
- Public claimOpen-source, self-hosted customer platforms can serve the outreach use case effectively
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Email sendingGmail/IMAP connection for reply detectionReplies must be matched to contacts without users leaving their inbox.
- This app · Background jobsScheduled job runnerDaily follow-up lists and webhooks need timed tasks.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialOpen-source core may make few users pay; people who self-host may never convert to hosted plans.
- PlatformGmail connection requires Google app review and can limit sending and reading mail.
- RegulatoryCold email is subject to anti-spam and data protection rules that vary by country; users carry the duty but the product must support opt-outs.
- CommercialMany free and open-source CRMs exist; being lighter and outreach-focused must be clear to buyers.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.