I've been looking for this for a long while!
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
#472Yet another cloud based system for insecurely storing very personal data that I won't ever be using.
It says open-source in the first half of the title.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
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The problem is it explains to the wrong audience -- the overlap in the Venn diagram of "people who know what CRM means" and "people looking for a lightweight, open-source personal tracking application" feels like it'd be pretty small. Since the app has a person's name anyway, I'd suggest abandoning acronyms entirely and making up something that sounds like a job title: e.g. "Monica, your Personal Assistant." (Which i…
That makes sense. Definitely. I bet most people outside of hacker news have no idea of what a CRM is.
I've been on HN for years and I had to look it up. I think it's the wrong metaphor.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#474Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#475Yet another cloud based system for insecurely storing very personal data that I won't ever be using.
It says open-source in the first half of the title.
Open source won't keep your data confidential by itself. Are they going to port it to run offline, or exclusively sync via encrypted blobs?
It's not the technology, it's the philosophy.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#476Yet another cloud based system for insecurely storing very personal data that I won't ever be using.
Insecurely?
You store your data on their server. It has logins and passwords to control whether someone talking to their server over the internet should have access to your data. So yeah, massively insecure.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#477Founder 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…
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…
There are some mobile applications that do exactly the same as this service: Ntwrk, CJournalLite, Super Social.
Disclaimer, I created the last one.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#478Is 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.
The only thing dystopian about this is the service eventually selling off the data and others data mining you even more detailed.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#479It was recently pointed out by a prominent member of the community that developers should stop naming personal assistants after women, because it's not a woman's job to help you out.
Does the same apply to this? Should the author change it to a more neutral name?
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
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Some comments: It's weird seeing the kid number pushed so hard on the dashboard. I'm in college, so that's not really a feature that applies to me. I'm not a fan of the date picker, an actual calendar popup would be better IMO. If people are getting unique IDs, it should much rather be a GUID rather than what appears to be an incrementing index.
What's wrong with an incrementing index?
An incrementing index suggests comparison. If you are closer to friend #35 than you are to friend #8, it can feel strange to be exposed to that kind of numbering.