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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. :)

Maybe it's not hidden. :)

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

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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…

Have you considered the ability to "Share" a Contact? For example, if my Wife wants to share the info she collected about our niece? Or is the entire idea that each person is logging a unique POV or set of information about someone, rather than the system gravitating towards there being a single, cultivated profile about each person that is shared around? (right now it's kind of the anti social media -- which seems l…

Instead of sharing, I wonder if I should add multi users to an account, so you and your spouse could manage their relationships with their loved ones, for instance.

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

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I find it interesting that people use the need for a CRM like this to make two opposing arguments: 1) If you need something like this to better communicate with friends/family, you must not genuinely care about them 2) If you use something like this to better communicate with friends/family, it shows that you actually do genuinely care about them

The former assumes if you care enough you should be able to do it on your own without assistance from a CRM/app, the latter does not make that assumption and gives you kudos for using the tools available to make you better at caring for others

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

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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

MIT might be the wrong license to have on this then

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

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At first glance this looks awesome. I'll set it up tomorrow on my personal server.

I saw in the github repo you've asked people not to try and make money using the code. If you really intend to build a sustainable business off this, I suggest you change the license to something stricter than MIT.

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

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At first glance this looks awesome. I'll set it up tomorrow on my personal server.

I saw in the github repo you've asked people not to try and make money using the code. If you really intend to build a sustainable business off this, I suggest you change the license to something stricter than MIT.

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

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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…

The first thing I looked for was data export and import. I have an export from google contacts I'd like to import to get started quickly. I would also like to know that I can get my data out to use in other applications (a table for the activity logs joined on the relationship's ID, a table for the relationships, etc.). The "Edit" link under "Personal Information" should also be Blue, like the "Add" links under the o…

You are right. Import is high on my roadmap [1].

Export will be next, too. It's vital to not be locked in.

Editing reminders, yeah, I didn't do it at first because it's way less trivial that it might look, but it's in my todo as well ;-)

Thanks for all your ideas, they all make a lot of sense.

[1]: https://github.com/monicahq/monica/projects/1

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

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post #268

edit: was wrong, see replies.

Yep, if this data isn't stored on my machine then I won't be going anywhere near this.

You're basically asking me to post not only my own, very personal information, but now all of my friends and family?? No thanks.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand for keeping track of interactions with my adult education students, it looks quite useful. Anyone comment on data export functions?

You can't export for now, but this is something I have in mind. You should be able to be in total control of your data, for sure. So I'll do that. Probably in CSV.

Excellent and I suppose CSV is the nearest we have for a lowest common denominator format for structured data
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