Confirmed and Recommended — truly free / self-hosted stack
Lead scraping & data extraction
Scrapy — Open-source Python scraping framework, full control, no usage limits.
Great for building large-scale lead lists.
Playwright / Puppeteer / Selenium — Browser automation tools (headless or full-
browser), ideal for scraping JS-heavy websites or dynamic pages (e.g. company
directories, SaaS landing pages). Puppeteer/Playwright are actively maintained,
fully open-source under Apache-2.0.
✅ These are foundational — as long as you handle proxies, rate-limiting, and polite
scraping, you can build solid, scalable lists of prospects.
Email delivery / mailing / automation / outreach
listmonk — Self-hosted mailing list manager (Go + PostgreSQL); no SaaS-style send
limits if you control SMTP; good for high-throughput campaigns.
WP Manage Ninja
+1
Mautic — Full-featured open-source marketing automation, campaign builder, lead
scoring, email sequences; self-hostable and widely used as a free alternative to
big marketing suites.
Mautic
+2
Nucamp
+2
Open-source SMTP + mail-server stack (e.g., Postfix / Haraka + proper DKIM/SPF +
your own IPs) — not strictly a “product,” but critical: combining self-hosted SMTP
with listmonk or Mautic (or even phpList) gives you real control over
deliverability and volume.
✅ This combination avoids “freemium” traps, gives full data control, and lets you
scale as your outreach volume grows — provided you manage email hygiene,
deliverability, throttling.
Workflow automation & orchestration / glue logic
n8n (self-hosted) — Popular open automation tool, good for wiring scraping →
enrichment → CRM → email pipelines. Community/self-hosted version is free forever.
n8n Blog
+1
Huginn — “IFTTT for yourself”: you can build agents to monitor websites/APIs,
trigger actions — useful for real-time lead capture, enrichment, data piping.
(Earlier you had it; still valid.)
✅ These let you orchestrate complex workflows without recurring SaaS costs.
CRM / Contact & Pipeline Management
SuiteCRM — Battle-tested open-source CRM (AGPL), popular self-hosted alternative to
proprietary CRMs.
Wikipedia
+1
EspoCRM — Lighter, more modern UI option; open-source self-hosted CRM.
TechRadar
+1
✅ CRM + automation + mailing + scraping = full control over your pipeline and data
— no vendor lock-in.
Database, infrastructure & backing services
PostgreSQL — Fully open, enterprise-grade relational DB; ideal to store leads,
metadata, campaign history.
Redis (or equivalent caching/ queue store) — For queuing tasks, caching enrichments
/ rate-limiting, session management, etc.
Containerization / deployment stack (e.g. Docker, Docker-Compose, or self-hosted
orchestration) — to reliably deploy all of the above and automate updates.
