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?
Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
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FB integration, though, might be nice for initial import of friend data that's already there.
You can't import ANY data from your friends from Facebook. Facebook doesn't allow to.
[0]: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/common-scenar...
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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.
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#314Quick note to the founders: You need to add more genders. A lot of early adopters in the Bay Area have friends who are non-binary or are non-binary themselves. I don't want to be forced to mis-gender people who don't identify as male or female.
Definitely. My bad. The kind of stuff you don't think about when you are your only user. I'll add that, as well as the possibility to not indicate gender at all.
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#315That is I just can't create good habits or care enough to use them even though I know I could really improve my life if I did.
I would imagine its sort of like exercising (albeit I actually do do that).
Some never do it, some do it no matter what but the mass majority get on and off the wagon. We do it for a short post New Years'-eve-like period and then just eventually stop.
I need some way to force good habits like a drug (and yes I know about James Clear who blogs about this).
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#316Pro-tip: put your link to the newsletter, github and your twitter profile in the header of your site :). Clearly states if it's open source, self hostable or a service.
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#317This is very cool! My question is, is this really free? If so, how and why? It seems like it was a ton of work to build and presumably you could monetize it somehow - is that just something you're planning to do later on? If it gets a lot of users, how will you pay the (albeit small) server costs? I'm curious. Thanks again for building it!
It's free for now. I wanted first to see if there is an interest. The product is open source, so it'll be free forever anyway. I like the GitLab approach - free for everyone, but perhaps put some way to monetize this. I just have NO idea how. I honestly didn't think about it, because I wanted to have a side project that would be useful for people, and I don't know if people need this.
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#318i.e. What happens if a database is leaked?
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#319Earlier 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
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#320Few tiny feature requests: - Make the of the page the person you are looking at, really helps with multiple tabs. - Filters for Gender & more options for non-binary Gender would be great. - Just been adding a bunch of contacts, a tiny help would be when pasting a name into first name, to split on space and put the second name in.
Hope you can find a way to add Paid features you keep this going over the long term.