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Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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Looks like this is a service only for very young people? Got this wonderful error while trying to add my father. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ijdfvwtua5nwy6p/Screenshot%202017-...

US style dates, you probably want 03/18/1965

You, certainly I, definitely want ISO8601 dates -- ie. yyyy-mm-dd

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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This is where I need the community. I'm just a small Laravel amateur developer who doesn't know much about Docker I love simple solutions and Laravel seemed to me the easiest way to build something simple, and more importantly, easily maintainable, which is the most important for me.

That's what I meant, I would contribute a dockerfile, which people may use to run the application with one command. Would standard Laravel instructions to deploy an app[1] help me here or do you need additional steps? [1]: Maybe something like https://medium.com/laravel-news/the-simple-guide-to-deploy-l... (first thing I could find)

It would definitely help to follow the standard Laravel instructions.

Wow I didn't expect there would be a demand for this. Interesting. I'd need to move out some of the code as well from the app (at the moment GA and Intercom are part of the codebase, I need to remove them).

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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No I'm very alien to the PHP ecosystem. Valet seems to be Mac-only. I'm a happy Windows user who has some Linux servers to play around. It would be very nice to have a step-by-step manual installation guide, then who knows, maybe you would get a pull-request with a Dockerfile! :)

This is where I need the community. I'm just a small Laravel amateur developer who doesn't know much about Docker I love simple solutions and Laravel seemed to me the easiest way to build something simple, and more importantly, easily maintainable, which is the most important for me.

Docker is the way to go here :) It's going to be a very valuable tool to add to your arsenal.

"Easily deployable" is going to be a top concern of your users, and Docker solves that.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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Cool product. I've used calendars in the past to maintain this kind of thing but a product has many more features than a calendar so I'm into it.

A mobile app would definitely be nice for this kind of product at some point. Push notifications for reminders / an easy entry system, integration with contacts, calendar, etc.

Either way. Thanks for this cool product, and OSS-ing it.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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My personal recommendation is to drop third-party logins and allow users to sign-up via usernames (without emails). That means you need to deal with "lost password with no way to recover" situations and spam but it's still better than third parties controlling the most important aspect of your application.

FB integration, though, might be nice for initial import of friend data that's already there.

You can't import ANY data from your friends from Facebook. Facebook doesn't allow to.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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No I'm very alien to the PHP ecosystem. Valet seems to be Mac-only. I'm a happy Windows user who has some Linux servers to play around. It would be very nice to have a step-by-step manual installation guide, then who knows, maybe you would get a pull-request with a Dockerfile! :)

This is where I need the community. I'm just a small Laravel amateur developer who doesn't know much about Docker I love simple solutions and Laravel seemed to me the easiest way to build something simple, and more importantly, easily maintainable, which is the most important for me.

I've had good fortune setting up existing laravel apps using phpdocker.io

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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Do you have any plans to integrate with contacts on any device/platform? It may allow you to automatically save calls and manage metadata in sync with an established system.

I've been thinking about this. First step would be an API. Second step would be to either me learn Cocoa, ObjC or .NET to do this on the phones/desktops apps, etc..., or let the community do it.

Tools like React Native and Electron are pretty popular these days to build cross-platform apps and such. Since you know web stuff and I'm assuming JS, those might be a good option to explore so you could maintain them without having to learn the entire toolchain of building for various platforms

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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Call me cynical, but I find the term CRM pretty wrong. Yes, I understand what it does, people have been keeping track of this stuff (if I read the intro page correctly) for ages, and still I find this borderline creepy and overengineered. Disclaimer: I am using e.g. Facebook's "On this day" feature to reminisce about old stuff with friends, I also keep birthdays in a calendar. Maybe just the professional spin puts me…

I understand what you mean. I don't like it either, but I've yet to find another way of explaining quickly what it does. A CRM for friends is very explanatory. But I dislike the creepiness of it.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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Love this idea, the things that would really make it a no-brainer for me would be ability to upload multiple photos for a contact (or in a note) and a native/hybrid app. I could probably deal with the webapp on my phone but an app with push notifications would be ideal IMHO.

Why multiple photos for one contact? I get the importance of one photo, but why multiple?

Yeah, if only I knew how to create mobile apps, I'd do it in a hearbeat. One more thing I need to learn.

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