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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 atVelocet »

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…

I am sorry but this doesn't make any sense to me: I can't aggregate information from calendars (Outlook, Facebook, etc.) or any other information source out there. So every info i take, i have to take twice.

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

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Post by joelbugarini »

electriclove wrote: post #192
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…

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

+1 This would be great!

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

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Post by zeronight »

francis-io wrote: post #131

Something self hosted, but with integrations with gmail would be very useful for me (and something I would donate too). Push/pull from google calendar, push/pull emails from a contact, grouping people, sending unique emails to each member of a group. That kind of thing.

Its on Github and is easy to selfhost. And yes I agree, adding "import from FB would be awesome"

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

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Post by tajen »

robinhood wrote: post #308
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.

Use electron. It's what powers Slack for desktop: Youbuild an HTML app and it shows in a desktop window.

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

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Post by cosinetau »

confounded wrote: post #357
cosinetau wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This product is dangerous to privacy. It's easy to imagine how this data could be exploited if Monica is sold to Facebook, Google, etc. How are you working to guarantee my data is protected from any manner use outside my own?

As these things go, the privacy policy is excellent, and can be read in under a minute: https://monicahq.com/privacy.html

That is not a good privacy policy. Founder needs to talk to a lawyer, or the EFF.

For instance:

> Monica runs on Linode and I'm the only one, apart from Linode's employees, who has access to those servers.

This speaks to nothing about future use, which is what my question specifically asked.

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

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Post by Improvotter »

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…

It would be neat if there was a demo. For this kind of stuff I'd rather not give my information till I know what I'm in for completely.

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

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Post by HeavyStorm »

karmelapple wrote: post #212
nolok wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a unix/linux crontab, for repetitive task. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron It's minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week In this case, repeat every 19th of july at midnight.

This is why I like HN, and why it continues to be a much-higher-quality place to visit on the web than many other forums: there were no snarky replies, no "I can't believe you don't know cron" - just multiple friendly, helpful replies explaining exactly what this format is. What a good community.

Actually my first thought was - that guy was a smart-ass showing off. Of course many people wouldn't know a crontab line - Windows (and I guess Mac - never had one) don't have such magical tools.

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

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Post by pwenzel »

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…

I wouldn't mind being able to import a file from my Google Contacts. I've been using that as my friends-and-family CRM for over a decade now.

Also, this may sound stupid, but how do you delete a contact?

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