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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 PTRFRLL »

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…

Looks like you're calculating the birth date field's min-date as (today - 50 years)? Which means I can't add a persons birthday if they were born before 1967.

Edit: Looks like this is already known: https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/16

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

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Post by derefr »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I have a slowly-brewing notion that it will eventually be a matter of etiquette, to ensure that any content your produce is properly tagged such that people can treat you as a subset of yourself. Eventually—hopefully—it will be seen as incredibly uncouth to intermingle personal, political, and pastime content into one feed with no ability to re-separate them.

But that time is, sadly, not today. Until then, building feed-readers with topic-analysis auto-tagging might help.

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

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Post by nilved »

veritas3241 wrote: post #276
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

Thanks for bringing that to my attention! That's fantastic and I think they should put more focus on this option on the homepage.

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

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Post by SomeHacker44 »

robinhood wrote: post #85
SomeHacker44 wrote: post #81

CRM? No... PRM... Personal Relationship Management. :)

Is there such a thing? If there is, I'll switch the wording in no time :-D

Robin Hood has now officially thinged that PRM thing, sayeth Hacker News™.

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

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Post by robinhood »

sinistersnare wrote: post #303

Why a web-app instead of a local application? Why does this need to be connected to the internet, when it doesnt interact with anything? Is it because you want to be able to sync to other devices, such as a phone app in the future?

Because I just know web stuff. I did some .net like 15 years ago, but now I just know PHP and HTML, basically. Moreover, I'd love to create an app too, which would require an API, which requires to be available online.

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

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Post by lcall »

oever wrote: post #278
lcall wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks for the comments. I'd be interested in why RDF is important (ideally, on the OM discussion list :). To me, OM is better than the semantic web (on which I am not an expert), for reasons I try to explain in OM's FAQs.

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

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Post by binarypaean »

danielvf wrote: post #115

My 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…

I feel like him doing that with a spreadsheet is more impressive than having some kind of photographic social memory.

He cared about people enough to make familiarity and kindness a discipline and habit that he lived. Despite many of our apps, life hacks, and "social medias" we miss the simple insight; social kindness is rooted in just giving enough of a damn to have a discipline for it. Any tool is secondary.

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