Great privacy policy but it's not linked properly from your signup page:
Excited to try this, it's a Thing I've been wanting to have for quite some time now. Hope you won't mind the occasional feedback.
Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
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Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#152The privacy policy page is a 404: https://app.monicahq.com/privacy Is this a thing you pay for as a user or is this a thing like fb where user data is sold?
Yeah I'll fix the link as soon as I can push to prod without interrupting the traffic thanks to being 2nd on HN today.
None of this. You don't pay for a user, and I don't sell data to anyone. I'll introduce paying features later this year, but I have no idea which ones, and it WONT be about limiting the number of contacts.
Also, I'm like all people on HN, I hate the notion of selling data WITH A PASSION.
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#153Is anyone else getting a dystopian vibe from the idea of "managing" friends and family? I can definitely see this service being useful, but that branding makes me feel very uncomfortable.
Nope. Unless you are a psychopath you have always managed friends/family even if was managed informally in your head. You used to have a Rolodex of phone numbers and addresses. You may have even kept additional information about the person in your Rolodex, perhaps their birthday or anniversary. Important dates and social obligations used to be written on a wall or desk calendar so you didn't forget. You make notes (written or mental) of people's needs and preferences in order to accommodate them. (ie "I better have a vegetarian meal for Susan.", "John works nights so I better not call him until 6." "Sarah likes red wine.", "Joe doesn't like clubing.") You store in your mind what is happening in friend's lives to talk to them about it next time you see them. You made a paper list of people to send out event invitations, thank you notes, or Christmas cards so you don't forget anyone.
It's all social management, even if informal. But it's so natural you might not have thought about it as "management."
Nothing wrong with formalizing it and taking it all digital, if anything it can foster closer relationships if it's easy to use and consolidated. Someone can only remember so much at once and its great they care enough to store that information for easy retrieval in the future. We have never, as a society, faulted people for writing things down, (Rolodex is a generic trademark, for crying out loud), we are all only human. We don't think twice about setting a reminder to take medication or water the plants.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#154> Just hanged out.
Just FYI, this isn't typical usage. People say hung instead of hanged in this instance.
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#155Need to get that privacy policy link working. Love the idea of the project and it's definitely something I struggle with (especially when I get wrapped up in thinking about project problems) but when you have a "Try" link to enter a lot of personal information your Privacy Policy link needs to be explicitly clear.
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#156My uncle died suddenly this year. He was unbelievably caring - and not just to family - but to everyone he ever met. His funeral was jam packed with everyone from homeless people to executives of multi-billion dollar companies. I always thought that his ability to always have you, and whatever you had last talked about with him, on his mind at any moment was some kind of supernatural gift. I was surprised to find out…
This is exactly what Facebook should be. An augmented agent to help us be more helpful and empathetic to friends and family. I'm sorry for your loss. Your uncle sounds like a great human being.
This is what a lot of us who don't hate Zuck's guts actually do use FB for.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
One thought is that it would extremely useful to be able to interact over SMS: log events, contacts, receive reminders etc. Love the idea, keep it up!
Problem with this: SMS has a price, and would people be willing to pay for this?
Messenger Bots could solve this problem, as well as a Mobile App.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#158Need to get that privacy policy link working. Love the idea of the project and it's definitely something I struggle with (especially when I get wrapped up in thinking about project problems) but when you have a "Try" link to enter a lot of personal information your Privacy Policy link needs to be explicitly clear.
I understand. The fix is ready, but I don't want to push it to production as I have a lot of users logged in right now thanks to HN. I'll do it as soon as the traffic drops.
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#159Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#160Great privacy policy but it's not linked properly from your signup page: https://monicahq.com/privacy Excited to try this, it's a Thing I've been wanting to have for quite some time now. Hope you won't mind the occasional feedback.
Thanks. Well... I WANT FEEDBACK. The more feedback, the better, so please, please, send me emails about what you want to see in the product.