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Built a custom CRM for my wife in two days

4 February 2026 · 31 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 124 blog views

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I shipped a custom CRM in a couple of days. For my wife.

She runs a home management company, and issuing invoices in Excel was a very tedious and error-prone task. One house could easily take a couple of days to align and collect everything. I love my wife, and I couldn’t watch her waste time on things that can be easily automated. The math is simple - 2 days per house turns into 24 days a year.

You know how it works - happy wife, happy family.

To better understand the amount of work, here's what the system does:

Send invoices Collect cold water meter readings Ping tenants who forgot to submit them Ingest incoming house invoices and split them across apartments Manage parking spots …and a lot more

Could this have been done this fast a couple of years ago? I doubt it.

Not with this scope. Not just me. And definitely not while juggling other projects.

The interesting part is that while the LLM was implementing features we agreed on and planned, I was switching between several other projects. Reviewing. Thinking. Deciding what’s next.

I always believed context switching is bad. And it probably still is. But now it’s a skill you actually need; otherwise, you’ll just waste time watching the LLM think and craft code.

LLMs are slow. Humans shouldn’t be idle while they think. If you have experience and can keep context in your head, AI turns you into a force multiplier.

The video of the app:

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Four cartoon hero stages on floating cliffs showing growth from calm focus to multitasking, context switching and fully resumed productivity.

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