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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 bbaumgar »

robinhood wrote: post #348
alexeldeib wrote: post #345

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Probably a big investment, but my immediate thought is I'd love a mobile app. The mobile site was better than nothing, but if you had a slick mobile app, I would use it constantly . So many times I forget little things that I would love to jot down in exactly this type of product. e: On birthdays, might be nice to be able to add day/month but no year. I'm working through adding some of my contacts into this and notic…

If only I knew how to make one... I will first create an API in the hopes that someone creates a mobile app for this.

I'll be watching your github repo / release notes pretty closely - will try and make a simple people / event entry + reminder only mobile app for my personal use (and for others, if there's interest).

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

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Post by cperciva »

robinhood wrote: post #252
LordKano wrote: post #222

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My first thought was that it can be subpoenaed. For example: if, unbeknownst to you, two of your friends were involved in some kind of criminal conspiracy and you had spoken/met with both of them near the time it was known that they had met, an enterprising prosecutor could use your record of having met with them to accuse you of having taken part.

Hum. Is there anything I can do to prevent that?

You can encrypt data on your side and only decrypt it when your users sign in. This is the approach SimpleTax uses in Canada.

Send me an email and I'll be happy to go into more detail. (I'm on a plane which is hopefully taking off soon, so I don't have time to write more right now.)

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

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Post by confounded »

infinite8s wrote: post #397
confounded wrote: post #368

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- "No knowledge" (e.g. decrypted on the client) data storage. Very very difficult to do well. - Make it easy for people to host data independently of you. Either by running your app on thier server (related to discussion above about for Heroku/Sandstorm, but a regular VPS is probably preferable), or using your client to read data stored in some generic format, e.g. an existing CardDav server, or even just Dropbox, wi…

Even if people self-host, if a prosecutor suspected you had data about them meeting they could probably subpoena your server.

That's true of any server or any data. The point is that you control it.

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

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Post by nojvek »

> Dear app developers: stop naming your personal assistants after women. Stop thinking women’s jobs is to help you out. It’s not.

> Stop writing copy like “Here is everything you can do with Monica” and “I’ve created Monica to help these people”.

From a Monica I follow on twitter.

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

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Post by laingc »

HeavyStorm wrote: post #379
karmelapple wrote: post #212

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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.

Mac has cron. It's pretty standard on *NIX systems.

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

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Post by oever »

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

Here's a non-boring video. It has some good product taglines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2UPoHJAOSQ

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