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📇Twenty

ACTIVE STEADY

twentyhq/twenty · homepage ↗

The open alternative to Salesforce, designed for AI.

⭐ Hugely popular: 55k stars, gaining about 407 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2022 4 years old
language TypeScript
license Other

momentum

total stars 55k
stars added last week +407
HN peak 164 pts 2y 10mo ago
commits / week 145 steady · -24% vs prior mo
issues closed 98% ~2d to close, median
contributors 709 (+5 in 15d)
release cadence weekly
last activity today

durability

backing VC-backed Twenty (YC S23)
bus factor 5 distributed
top-author share 17% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 2k/mo (+5%/mo) · + 22k total since PR#12

why it's a big deal

  • First serious OSS CRM challenger to prioritize UX and community over lock-in.
  • Full-featured out of the box: views, permissions, workflows, calendar sync.
  • Plugin ecosystem planned to rival traditional CRM extensibility.

under the hood

  • Built with NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, and React.
  • Frontend uses Recoil, Emotion, Lingui for reactive UX and i18n.
  • Community-focused with open issue tracking, Discord, and Crowdin for translation.

our take from PR#12, 2025-07-09

star history

PR#12 · 33k55k now Dec 2022Aug 2026
  1. PR#12 33k 2025-07-09
  2. now 55k + 22k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Quietly building: more output than attention, for now.

+20 understory score output 100 · clout 80
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#12 2025-07-09 on the radar

    Community-Built, Open-Source CRM

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