A private sidebar on every LinkedIn profile — your notes, your tags, your history with that person, right where you're already looking. No CRM tab. Nothing to import. Working in under a minute.
PingBack is in Chrome Web Store review right now. Leave your email and I'll send you the link the day it's live — that one email, and nothing else. No newsletter, no sequence, and your address goes to nobody.
Free for your first 25 people. Pro is $7/month. Made by one person, in the open.
You've done this before. You start a spreadsheet. Name, company, what you talked about, when to follow up. It's good for about three weeks.
Then you try a real CRM, and it wants a pipeline, deal stages, an email integration, and forty minutes of setup before it tells you anything you didn't already know. You use it for a month. You cancel it.
Meanwhile the actual work keeps happening on LinkedIn. You open a profile, half-recognise the face, and you cannot remember whether you already pitched them, what they said, or who introduced you.
It was never a discipline problem. It was a location problem. Your notes were in a tool. The people are on LinkedIn. So the notes go on LinkedIn.
1. Open any LinkedIn profile. A slim rail appears at the right edge. Click it. The contact card is already filled in — name, headline, company, photo — read from the page you're looking at. You don't type any of it.
2. Tag them. Write a note. "Warm intro from Dana." "Wants pricing in Q1." "Do not pitch — hiring, not buying." Private to you. Saved instantly.
3. Come back in four months. Their profile shows up in your feed. The rail is there. Everything you wrote is there, with dates, and every interaction you've logged.
That's it. No dashboard to check every morning, no pipeline to groom, no fields to configure. The only new habit is typing — and only on a page you were already going to open.
Most LinkedIn extensions are automation tools. They send connection requests, scrape connection lists, and bulk-export profiles — which is how people get their accounts restricted. Your LinkedIn account is probably load-bearing for your income. So PingBack is built the opposite way, permanently:
It never automates anything. No connection requests, no messages, no auto-scrolling, no clicks on your behalf. Ever.
It never scrapes. It reads the one profile page you have open, the same information already on your screen. It never visits a LinkedIn page on its own, never opens your connections list, never touches anything that would need an extra click to load.
It never bulk-exports LinkedIn data. You can export your data — your notes, your tags, your contacts — any time, on any plan, including free. That's your data. LinkedIn's isn't yours to take, so the tool won't take it.
It never reads your email. PingBack requests no access to Gmail or any mailbox. Signing in with Google shares your name, email address, and profile picture, and nothing else.
It never sells your data. No advertisers, no data brokers, no resale. There is no version of this business where that changes.
These aren't launch-phase promises. They're the reason the extension is built the way it is, and reversing them would mean rebuilding it. Read exactly what it collects →
This is for you if: you do your own LinkedIn outreach. You're a freelancer, consultant, solo salesperson, agency-of-one, recruiter, or a founder still doing your own sales. You've already quit a spreadsheet and quit a CRM. You need to remember people, not manage a pipeline.
This is not for you if: you need a shared team workspace, deal stages, email sequences, or a sync into Salesforce or HubSpot. PingBack does none of those and there's no plan for it to. Streak, Surfe, or Folk are better tools for that job and I'd rather you use one than be disappointed by this.
Also worth knowing: PingBack is single-user. No seats, no shared contacts. Your account is yours alone.
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0, forever | $7/month or $59/year |
| Saved contacts | 25 | Unlimited |
| Notes & tags | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Interaction history | Last 90 days | Full history, never expires |
| Sidebar, contact cards, timeline | Everything | Everything |
| Export your data | Always | Always |
| Delete your account | Always | Always |
What counts as a "saved contact"? Only people you've actually written a note or added a tag on. Browsing profiles is unlimited and always free — you'll never hit a paywall on a page you were only looking at.
No feature is behind the paywall. Free and Pro are the same product. Pro is volume and history, nothing else.
30-day refund, no questions. Email me and I'll refund you. You don't have to explain, and I won't try to talk you out of it.
The first 100 people who go Pro keep $7/month — or $59/year — for as long as they stay subscribed, locked in even when the price goes up later. It will go up: Gmail support is built and coming back, and the product gets bigger. Your price won't.
Nobody has claimed a founding spot yet, because nobody can subscribe until the listing is live. The list above gets the link first.
I'm Jack. I built PingBack because I kept opening LinkedIn profiles of people I'd already spoken to and having no idea what we'd said. I tried the spreadsheet. I tried the CRM. Both died the same way.
There's no company behind this — it's me, and I answer support myself at contact@pingback-crm.com. Usually same day.
Which means I'll tell you the awkward parts: PingBack is new. There are no reviews yet, because nobody's had a chance to leave one. It works on standard LinkedIn profile pages and nowhere else — not Sales Navigator, not Recruiter, not your inbox. Better to know that now than after you install it.
Nothing PingBack does is the kind of thing accounts get restricted for. It doesn't automate, doesn't send anything, doesn't scrape, doesn't visit pages on its own, and doesn't run when you're not there. It reads the single profile page you already have open — exactly the information already rendered on your screen — and adds a panel next to it. That's the entire technical footprint, and it's a permanent design constraint, not a current setting.
No. PingBack requests no access to Gmail or any other mailbox — the extension is technically incapable of it, because the permission simply isn't there. Signing in with Google shares your name, email address, and profile picture, and is used only to identify your account.
Only a deliberate save — writing a note or adding a tag on someone. Opening profiles, reading them, and browsing are unlimited and free on every plan. And if you do reach 25, everything you've already saved stays fully usable forever: readable, editable, taggable. Nothing is locked or deleted.
No. Export everything — contacts, notes, tags, history — any time, on the free plan included. Account deletion is one click and permanent, also on both plans. Neither is behind the paywall and neither ever will be; putting your own data behind a payment would be indefensible.
Because Streak lives in Gmail and PingBack lives on LinkedIn, which is where you're actually meeting people. If your relationship-building happens in your inbox, use Streak — genuinely. If it happens on LinkedIn profiles, Streak has nothing there. As for 500 versus 25: a free tier you can never exhaust is a product with no business behind it. I'd rather be honest that this costs $7 than build something I can't afford to keep running.
Today, PingBack works on standard LinkedIn profile pages (linkedin.com/in/…). It does not run inside Sales Navigator or Recruiter. If that matters to you, tell me — it's the kind of thing I'll prioritise if enough people ask.
It's built, and it's not shipping yet. Reading Gmail data — even just sender and subject lines, never message bodies — requires a paid third-party security assessment from Google that I can't fund yet as a solo developer. Rather than ship something half-permissioned or quietly over-ask for access to your mailbox, I've parked it. It'll come back. Until then PingBack requests nothing from your email at all.
No. PingBack is single-user by design, and there's no shared workspace or seat pricing. If you need your team to see each other's notes, this isn't the right tool yet.
In review now. You'll get the link the day it's live — one email, nothing else.
Free for your first 25 people. $7/month after. Refundable for 30 days.