---
title: "Someone basically open-sourced Salesforce"
source_url: https://youtu.be/jJi3cR_D6oA
captured_at: 2026-05-28
author: "Indie Hacker News"
contributor: "ชิดชนก"
platform: youtube
---
# Someone basically open-sourced Salesforce

youtube video by **Indie Hacker News**, 7m25s, uploaded 2026-05-25. URL: https://youtu.be/jJi3cR_D6oA
Tags: ai crm, mcp, model context protocol, open source, open source crm, salesforce alternative, self-hosted crm, twenty crm

## Shared in LINE Note+
- 2026-05-28 19:25 by ชิดชนก

## Description
👉 Daily indie hacker news + AI deep dives for builders → 

Salesforce costs a fortune, and your AI assistant can't really touch it. Twenty is the open-source answer: 46k+ stars, free to self-host, and built so an agent like Claude can run your whole CRM in plain English.

Twenty calls itself "the open alternative to Salesforce, designed for AI." It ships a native Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, so an AI agent can create companies, log deals, and search your pipeline just by being asked. You define your CRM as code in TypeScript, version the schema in git like the rest of your stack, and self-host the whole thing for free with one Docker command. It's built by the team behind Luckey (acquired by Airbnb), it's a Y Combinator company, and it's backed by a cofounder of HubSpot — the company it's trying to replace.

In this deep dive: where Twenty fits against Salesforce and HubSpot, the native MCP and built-in AI-chat story, the CRM-as-code developer workflow, the stack under the hood, self-hosting, what shipped in v2.6, and the honest trade-offs of running it for real.

🔗 Repo: 
🌐 Site: 

CHAPTERS
00:00 Hand it to an agent
01:06 The README
02:02 vs Salesforce & HubSpot
02:43 The