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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

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Post by shoover »

robinhood wrote: post #79
cperciva wrote: post #77

Is 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.

I know :-/ Sorry about this, I'm trying to find the best way to explain what it does, without using a boring video that sucks, or poetic terms that say nothing. If you have any idea, please, please let me know :-D

The word "manage" has to go, but it's a tough one. Any word having to do with augmentation is too robot/AI sounding. I like the idea of "cultivating," as in the Dale Carnegie approach or the another commenter's awesome uncle with the spreadsheet. But it's a balance of memory and cultivation.

Anyway, nice work.

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

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Post by robinhood »

eevilspock wrote: post #255

Why would I want trust even more personal data to a web service? Why couldn't this be an app on my phone that synced securely with other instances of the app on my other devices?

You don't need to trust me. You can host it yourself locally if you want, it's open source. https://github.com/monicahq

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

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Post by djaychela »

robinhood wrote: post #214
muzakthings wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) Does it integrate with my calls from my iOS / emails from gmail? So that I can sort by "least recently connected"? otherwise writing notes each time and looking it up gets tiresome. 2) is there a mobile app? 3) how much will it cost monthly? 4) how are reminder sent?

1) No 2) no 3) nothing 4) by email :-D

in reference to 4) any chance of adding something like pushbullet?

https://docs.pushbullet.com/

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

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Post by elliottcarlson »

robinhood wrote: post #216
electriclove wrote: post #192

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Please consider creating a 'Deploy to Heroku' button or something similar.

Excellent idea. If only I knew how to do it though :-D

It's actually pretty straight forward; here is the Heroku documentation on it: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-button

An example from one of my projects: https://github.com/elliottcarlson/incidentbot/blob/master/ap...

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

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Post by veritas3241 »

nilved wrote: post #268

edit: was wrong, see replies.

From the github[0]

> If you prefer to, you can simply clone the repository and set it up yourself on any hosting provider, for free. I'm just asking that you don't try to make money out of it yourself.

[0] https://github.com/monicahq/monica

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

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Post by oever »

lcall wrote: post #259
oever wrote: post #233

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onemodel looks good. I'd love it as a knowledge graph editor that focuses on information from a personal standpoint. Would be interesting to map the data model to RDF. Java has many good RDF libraries such as Jena.

If it had RDF export would that make you a user? I need feedback (eg, users) now (along with some prettifying and installers). I invite you to join the discussion list and continue this.

If it roundtrips to RDF losslessly it certainly might. I like the konsole interface and the idea of publishing a subset to a website.

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

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Post by munchman »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #225
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…

Question: Where does the name come from? Is it another female assistant in the vein of Siri, Alexa, etc.?

not saying this is where it came from, but this is where i imagined it came from http://i.imgur.com/JCnWZqR.jpg

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

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Post by blazespin »

wccrawford wrote: post #270
blazespin wrote: post #197

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Yeah, I don't get that. I see some people who like to reflect their interests online but I don't consider it inane or addiction. You have a hobby, why not share it online?

It becomes a problem when you've got people who are incredibly single-minded about something. I don't mind my coworker's weekly posts about car stuff at all, even though I have no interest whatsoever. And when he posts some progress on some car repair he's doing, I'm glad to see he's doing something he loves. But when my SJW friend posts yet another ridiculous over-the-top post about how all X are X, and somehow thin…

Hmm, well I admit I do hide posts from a few of my friends. It's pretty easy, you know.
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