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Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by HenryBemis »

Ritepaw wrote: post #17
stenius wrote: post #3

Congrats on the launch! What features are on your roadmap to make it more CRM than personalized greeting cards? There's also https://www.monicahq.com/ , an open source personal CRM that doesn't allow you to directly engage with people like elim allows.

A shortlist from the top of my mind: * Individualised settings per contact * Who is this person to you? * How often do you want to engage with this contact? * What kind of ambitions do you have with this contact? * More refined suggestions based on the above * Training module to improve your social skills * Knowledge base * Regular blogs/videos/podcasts about the loneliness topic * Seasonal events and designs

> * How often do you want to engage with this contact? and perhaps have a reminder "you usually call X person every Friday around 6pm, it is now 6pm"

> * What kind of ambitions do you have with this contact? pop a reminder/message: "did you manage to establish phase 5- "ask Mary out for a date"?"

> * Knowledge base a la IMDB on the bio: spouse, siblings, birthday, etc.

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by aeturnum »

Ritepaw wrote: post #20
aeturnum wrote: post #10

I've been looking for automated help with the kinds of problems this app claims to solve for some time. I've done the usual HackerNews thing of finding imperfect solutions (currently a series of overlapping periodic tasks in todoist) and considering making my own service. I understand this is very early, but right now this feature set feels like an anti-product. The idea that I would get "daily reminders" of every re…

The only thing I can say right now is: you are absolutely correct. This is something we need to address asap (and will!)

I'll watch your efforts with enthusiasm! I think it's hard and I think commercializing it is particularly hard. I also think your framing is exactly correct - the shape of our social relationships is transforming quickly, but our social habits aren't transforming as quickly (as least mine aren't). I hope you succeed!

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by binkHN »

Ritepaw wrote: post #22
binkHN wrote: post #13

Pretty app! I created something related, but more utilitarian. It's called CommuniqAI and may be found at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.mtc.ga .

This looks great! Sadly I can't check it out right now, as I don't have my Android phone with me. Do you happen to have an iOS version as well?

Unfortunately I do not. The app has some advanced functionality that Google approved, but I can't imagine Apple would allow the same integration with iMessage.

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by rubberband »

kilroy123 wrote: post #7

Congrats on the launch! I love the focus on local data only. I've tried several different CRMs to help remind me to keep track of friends, family, and acquaintances. The problem I have is I have thousands of contacts from tons of different sources and from over the years. From Google, old phones, LinkedIn, Apple, and people in emails who aren't contacts. I would love an app that could consolidate all my contacts into…

I kinda have the opposite problem. I have 50-100 people in my phone, and I would only care to use the app for maybe 20ish... Here's the thing... I absolutely don't want to give it cart-blanche access to my contacts (perhaps irrational; I'm being honest). As a super-nerd (as are 94% of us here), I completely understand from a technical perspective why it's that way... But, it just feels creepy and I don't trust it (again, I'm quite sure this is irrational).

That was a long-winded way of saying "this is cool, but I wish I could key in contacts separately."

Hope that made sense.

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by Ritepaw »

rubberband wrote: post #34
kilroy123 wrote: post #7

Congrats on the launch! I love the focus on local data only. I've tried several different CRMs to help remind me to keep track of friends, family, and acquaintances. The problem I have is I have thousands of contacts from tons of different sources and from over the years. From Google, old phones, LinkedIn, Apple, and people in emails who aren't contacts. I would love an app that could consolidate all my contacts into…

I kinda have the opposite problem. I have 50-100 people in my phone, and I would only care to use the app for maybe 20ish... Here's the thing... I absolutely don't want to give it cart-blanche access to my contacts (perhaps irrational; I'm being honest). As a super-nerd (as are 94% of us here), I completely understand from a technical perspective why it's that way... But, it just feels creepy and I don't trust it (ag…

This is good feedback. If anything, we should all be more paranoid about whom we share our data with. And the contacts in your phone book are especially sensitive. Let me take a note and see what we can do about that. I don't see why we shouldn't allow for users to add their contacts manually.

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by Ritepaw »

aeturnum wrote: post #32
Ritepaw wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only thing I can say right now is: you are absolutely correct. This is something we need to address asap (and will!)

I'll watch your efforts with enthusiasm! I think it's hard and I think commercializing it is particularly hard. I also think your framing is exactly correct - the shape of our social relationships is transforming quickly, but our social habits aren't transforming as quickly (as least mine aren't). I hope you succeed!

Thank you for your kind words!

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by Ritepaw »

morning-coffee wrote: post #37

If "relationships matter" and you need an app to remind you of that, I'd posit you have a larger problem than any app can solve. Consider putting down the device and connecting with your peeps in the real world every once in a while.

The way we see it is that most people want to be connected and want to be good friends. But they either

a) Lack the social skills or

b) Lack the time management skills

This is where we want to help.

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