Less Annoying CRM

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Build me the simple CRM that replaces Less Annoying CRM.

The product is a discipline, not a feature set. **Everything you add makes it worse.** Build the smallest thing that works and defend it.

STACK
- Node 20+ with Fastify, server-rendered HTML with a little vanilla JS
- SQLite through better-sqlite3, WAL mode, FTS5 across everything
- Caddy in front

THE WHOLE SCHEMA
- contacts: id, name, company, email, phone, address, notes, created_at
- pipelines: id, name, stages_json
- deals: id, contact_id, pipeline_id, stage, value_cents, currency, note, created_at, closed_at, outcome
- events: id, contact_id, kind, body, at — a note, a call, a meeting; **one table, not three**
- tasks: id, contact_id, title, due_on, done_at
- files: id, contact_id, path, name, bytes
- That is it. Six tables. Adding a seventh should require an argument

THE FOUR SCREENS
- A contact, with everything about them on one page and nothing on a second tab
- A pipeline as columns of deals, draggable
- A calendar of tasks and meetings
- Search, which finds anything across everything

THE PRINCIPLES THAT MAKE IT WORK
- **No required fields except a name.** Every required field is a moment somebody decides not to record something
- No custom field builder. If a field is needed, add the column — a builder is how simple products become complicated ones
- No automation, no workflows, no scoring. This is a memory aid, not a machine
- Everything editable in place, saved on blur. No edit mode, no save button
- One click from any screen to add a note about anybody

SEARCH, WHICH REPLACES MOST FEATURES
- FTS5 across contacts, notes, deals and tasks in one query, ranked, with prefix matching
- **Good search removes the need for folders, tags, filters and views**, which is most of what a large CRM is

THE ONE PIECE OF NAGGING
- Every contact you have interacted with has a next task, or it appears on a list of contacts with nothing planned. That single list is the whole discipline of following up

WHAT TO REFUSE
- Email sync, integrations, reporting dashboards, mobile applications, custom fields, permissions. **Each has a good argument and each ruins it.** If they are needed, this is not the right product

BACKUP AND EXIT
- A one-button export of everything as CSV and files, working from the first day
- Nightly backup off the machine. The whole value here is remembering things, and a lost database forgets everything

WHAT MATTERS MOST
Six tables, no required fields, and one list of contacts with no next step. Everything else you might add makes it a different product.