Pharmacists Tracked Patients in Excel. I Built Them a Real CRM System.
Pharmacists tracking patients in Excel. Hundreds of rows. Clinical research data. Filter, scroll, copy, paste. Every single day. I looked at that spreadsheet and said - I can fix this. Vue.js for the frontend, Firebase for the backend and real-time database. A full CRM built specifically for clinical research workflows - patient records, treatment tracking, follow-up scheduling, everything that Excel was never designed to do. Gone: the endless scrolling, the accidental overwrites of someone else's data. Real-time sync across the whole team. Processing time dropped 40 percent. Zero lost records. The workflow went 100 percent digital. Not because the pharmacists got faster - because the system stopped slowing them down. A tool built for humans, not for accountants. Vue and Firebase were just tools. The actual work started when I sat down with pharmacists, watched them work, understood their actual pain, and built something that made their day better. Just genuinely better. Talk to the users before writing a single line. Replace the process, not just the tool. Measure impact in human time saved. That is the difference between a developer and an engineer. Somewhere right now,…