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

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Post by robinhood »

wink wrote: post #56
robinhood wrote: post #48

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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.

Also maybe it's a not-a-native-speaker thing, but your use of "Manage significant others" gave me a good chuckle because all I could think of at first how it can help to hide your affair from your spouse. :)

Ah ah - well. Definitely a non native speaker thing. If you want to help fine tune the marketing site, it's open source too. https://github.com/monicahq/monicahq.github.io

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

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Post by robinhood »

jakecraige wrote: post #47
robinhood wrote: post #27

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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

I think I'll focus my energy on creating an API first, then I'll be able to do this. I understand how important being on mobile as a native app is. I'll do it

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

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Post by robinhood »

peller wrote: post #53
positivecomment wrote: post #29

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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)

Just tried setting it up, pretty simple assuming you're comfortable with Linux. You need MySQL/MariaDB, PHP >= 5.5.9 (see composer.json, require section for version requirements - worked with 7.1.x for me), node/npm, and composer (typically installed from getcomposer.org) Otherwise, directions at https://github.com/monicahq/monica#setup-the-project work with one exception: I'm not familiar with laravel in particular,…

Thanks for this. I think I can probably make the instructions better so you can install it easily.

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

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Post by positivecomment »

peller wrote: post #53
positivecomment wrote: post #29

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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)

Just tried setting it up, pretty simple assuming you're comfortable with Linux. You need MySQL/MariaDB, PHP >= 5.5.9 (see composer.json, require section for version requirements - worked with 7.1.x for me), node/npm, and composer (typically installed from getcomposer.org) Otherwise, directions at https://github.com/monicahq/monica#setup-the-project work with one exception: I'm not familiar with laravel in particular,…

Thanks! I will try to Docker-ize this when I have time.

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

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Post by robinhood »

jakecraige wrote: post #36
bastih wrote: post #28

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

Localization is important - I might need to change date format depending on the language you select. Currently Monica supports both French and English.

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

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Post by robinhood »

jakecraige wrote: post #44

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.

Thanks. Definitely. I also love the idea of OSS-ing a product. At least people will be able to contribute, or read the code and see that I have no plans in doing nasty stuff with their data at all.

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

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Post by cr0sh »

robinhood wrote: post #54
noxToken wrote: post #22

This seems like something I may use. I have terrible memory, so I never remember birthdays, anniversaries or even my own doc appointments. Tangentially related: I wonder what the fallout is for the average person who may get discovered using this. I could see someone catching flack for having software send them reminders of things that "should be important enough to remember". Then again, what's wrong with using tech…

That's something I've struggled with while building the v1. I wondered if it was moral to use technology to help me have better relationships. I'm the kind of guy who hates Facebook and all the bad things the technology has brought into our lives. And yet, ironically, I do something like this. But the motivation behind is genuinely pure: I really want to be better at remembering things about the ones that I love.

> I really want to be better at remembering things about the ones that I love.

Marketing idea: Those with failing memory (for whatever reason) and/or their caretakers.

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

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Post by jonasvp »

robinhood wrote: post #5

Founder here. Here to answer any questions you might have. The site is not perfect, it's not mobile optimized, there are probably bugs, there is a gazillion features missing, no APIs but it's a labour of love, open-source and I hope it will help people other than me. I want to grow this product but I need to know what you need, people. Edit: sorry for the bugs I see on my server popping here and there. Didnt expect t…

This is exactly what I need - but I signed up, closed the window and now I get an endless redirect loop after clicking on "Login" on the main page. Please fix so I can try it out!

EDIT: It works when accessing https://app.monicahq.com/people - the endless redirect only affects https://app.monicahq.com/

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

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Post by joshstrange »

robinhood wrote: post #50
joshstrange wrote: post #38

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.

I can speak highly of Ionic for developing hybrid mobile apps using HTML/JS/CSS
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