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

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Post by joshlemer »

robinhood wrote: post #239
anigbrowl wrote: post #229

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The product is super cool and useful, although I hope you won't limit it to being a single-user thing because it could actually evolve into an amazing social tool. But I would really lose the word 'manage', it kind of suggests that personal relations are just another kind of task which is apt to make the people being related to feel devalued because they're not important enough to be given space in someone's day-to-d…

You know what I meant. I didn't imply poetry meant nothing. Of course not. But I see SAAS more and more describing their product in ways that are too marketing to me. I prefer to go straight to the point. Regarding the gender, I don't know what to think about this. It's not by any mean a way to degrade women. I will definitely consider choosing another name because I understand how some people could be offended by th…

For what it's worth, I don't see what all the fuss is about the name. In fact, I like it. Do these same people complain about other software named after people, like Cassandra, Linux, MySQL, Haskell etc...

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

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Post by robinhood »

anigbrowl wrote: post #339
robinhood wrote: post #239

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You know what I meant. I didn't imply poetry meant nothing. Of course not. But I see SAAS more and more describing their product in ways that are too marketing to me. I prefer to go straight to the point. Regarding the gender, I don't know what to think about this. It's not by any mean a way to degrade women. I will definitely consider choosing another name because I understand how some people could be offended by th…

Of course I know what you meant, but I'm trying to give you some free branding advice that would substantially increase the likely uptake for your tool.I am not a marketing oriented person either, but successful businesses often spend about the same money/effort on marketing as they do on product development. That's certainly the magic formula in the film industry - 50% on the production and 50% on the ad campaign.

I agree and thanks a lot for your comment. I know I should be much better at marketing, it's nearly the most important criteria for a software to succeed.

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

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Post by robinhood »

liamcardenas wrote: post #330
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…

Thank you so much! I've been looking for something like this (and even contemplated making this myself despite not having any spare time to do so). My one concern: Can you please make all of your contact information downloadable and backupable. My biggest fear would be putting so much precious data in your app and then having you guys go under... then I would lose everything. Also, I don't want vendor lock-in for som…

This is planned according to the roadmap (https://github.com/monicahq/monica/projects/1). This is crucially important to me as well, so I'll make it happen. Thanks.

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

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Post by rconti »

rconti wrote: post #93
robinhood wrote: post #3

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Thanks. Well, I built this website because I didn't have a spouse at that time, and I suffered socially from this, not being able to remember important things about my friends (call it selective memory or what not). My partner used to be the one who always reminded me these kind of things. It's an hommage to her.

Huh. I was sure it was a, uh, racially-tinged joke from knowyourmeme.

(incidentally, NOT a joke)

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

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Post by robinhood »

pyedpiper wrote: post #296
canes123456 wrote: post #8

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Sign up with facebook is not working for me. Perhaps because I have two factor on. Also, consider adding an import feature from gmail, vCard, etc Finally, why include male/female binary as the only required field besides name. Seems a little odd

not working for me either. made an issue (#39) on the repo.

I disabled Facebook login/signup entirely for now, in order to not frustrate users.

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

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Post by robinhood »

confounded wrote: post #386

This looks superb, thank you for building a great product with a non-hostile privacy policy. Before trusting my data/time with something, I generally like to understand the motivations of the creators. Do you intend to run this as a profit making business, or just as an open source project? Do you have thoughts/opinions on monetization? How do you intend to continue to develop it in the medium/long term?

I intend to run this as a profit making business on the long run. How, I don't know yet. I don't like the idea of restricting the number of contacts you can have. Probably a paid plan for advanced features. I'm on this application for the long run - and this is also one of the reasons I've open sourced it: if I lose interest, the community will be in charge of developing it further. The current license permits it.

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

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Post by robinhood »

progrocks9 wrote: post #442

Love it. This seems to be the answer to a question that Facebook forgot completely. To help you improve your social life with the people you really care about. Not just distract you with irrelevant information. Keep it up!

Thanks a lot for the kind words.

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

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Post by vnchr »

robinhood wrote: post #440
rkuykendall-com wrote: post #436

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Two feature requests that would make this a killer app for me (yes, I would pay): 1. Import names from Facebook (is this included if I had used Fb to register?) 2. Generate random individual to reach out to, weighted or sorted by when I last contacted them.

Thanks a lot. 1. This is not possible. Facebook does not give me those information through an importer. So it won't happen unless they change their mind. 2. Interesting. I had something similar in mind, I think you'll be pleased when it'll be out.

What about a mobile device contact import? Facebook and other platforms update those contacts. That could be your social network workaround.
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