Why › Not a CRM
Friends are not leads
Most apps for staying in touch were built for salespeople and renamed. Ciao! was built for the fifteen people you actually love.
What this actually looks like
Every app wants a pipeline
Tags, stages, follow-up rates. You wanted to remember to call your sister.
A spreadsheet felt wrong
It works, and it makes you feel like you are running a company where your friends are the rows.
You just wanted a list and a nudge
Names, how often, and a word when it has been a while. That is the whole request.
What Ciao! does about it
A name, a rhythm, a face
Each friend gets a name, how often you would like to talk, and a creature. There is no other field to fill in.
No tags, no stages, no scores
Nothing in Ciao! measures how well you are doing. The creature just shows you how long it has been.
For fifteen people, not fifteen hundred
It is for the friends you would cross a city for. Networking apps exist, and this is not one.
