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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 fmueller »

tryitnow wrote: post #200

Quick 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.

I think he/she should leave the gender there but add an additional field "identified as gender" or something like this. I mean it should still be possible for me to categorize people by their physical gender/sex.

For example it can be important to know whether an individual can get pregnant or not.

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

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Post by robinhood »

adambowles wrote: post #488
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…

Found a bug: adding a debt with a contact will always say "You owe $x" regardless if you select "You owe contact" or "Contact owes you"

Thanks for finding this! https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/84 will take care of this.

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

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Post by tripu »

“You know all those birthdays you forget? And when you last called your grandmother? When you last had coffee with that ex-colleague? Who did you lend that book to again?”

I solve all these (first-world) problems easily with Remember The Milk [ https://www.rememberthemilk.com/ ] — an underestimated tool, IMHO, to which I am loyal.

The four examples above are one-liners in RTM:

  Congratulate Alice on her birthday ^23 Nov *yearly #birthday
  Call grandma ^tom *monthly
  Coffee w/ Bob? ^1 Jul *monthly #colleague #coffee
  Get “War and Peace” back from Charlie ^in a month
Accounts are free; “pro” gives you just a few non-essential goodies (colours, Outlook sync, reminders on your phone, etc).

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

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Post by robinhood »

bbcbasic wrote: post #462
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…

Why did you decide to make this a site rather than a desktop app? This is a private database as I see it, so there is no need for it to be online. And keeping it offline would be good for privacy, and would make it easy for anyone to download and install, rather than the more complex install needed for a web application (or letting someone else host and sacrificing privacy).

Because I just know web technologies. Also, because having a web app will allow me to create an API, which will allow to use a mobile app for this, which totally makes sense.

If you care about the privacy, you can also host this yourself :-D

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

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Post by robinhood »

capex wrote: post #494

Great idea, but I would've much preferred a mobile app for this, which could sync my contacts automatically, log my calls to each contact and let me enter notes. The desktop app seems good but seems like a lot of work for the user.

I totally agree. I'll get there :-D

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

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Post by coldtea »

kinkrtyavimoodh wrote: post #156
toomuchtodo wrote: post #120

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This is exactly what Facebook should be. An augmented agent to help us be more helpful and empathetic to friends and family. I'm sorry for your loss. Your uncle sounds like a great human being.

This is what a lot of us who don't hate Zuck's guts actually do use FB for.

Unless FB facilitates this use (which it doesn't -- back in the day, maybe) then whether one hate's Zuck's guts or not is not really relevant.

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

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Post by Piko »

robinhood wrote: post #502
adambowles wrote: post #488

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Found a bug: adding a debt with a contact will always say "You owe $x" regardless if you select "You owe contact" or "Contact owes you"

Thanks for finding this! https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/84 will take care of this.

Should be fixed with https://github.com/monicahq/monica/pull/86 ;)

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

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Post by nerflad »

munchman wrote: post #279
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #225

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Question: Where does the name come from? Is it another female assistant in the vein of Siri, Alexa, etc.?

not saying this is where it came from, but this is where i imagined it came from http://i.imgur.com/JCnWZqR.jpg

First thing I thought of as well. I think it's hilarious but I imagine someone will eventually have a problem with it.

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

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Post by scaryclam »

stavros wrote: post #430
scaryclam wrote: post #343

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Please, please remove it. I actively avoid sites with fb logins, as it appears others in this thread do as well. Your idea can stand on its own without that sort of crutch.

Why? Just don't log in with it if you don't like it, why does it specifically have to be removed?

Wherever you see the "login with facebook" button, you have FB tracking you. This is why lots of people avoid sites that have this button. It adds very little and puts a lot of people off. Why keep it around on an OSS project if it's going to do nothing of real value and will put off both users of the CRM and people who would like to host a CRM but don't want the FB affiliation?

I get that you might like it, that's fine, but it's not serving any good purpose here. Google login would be more widespread if you must have a 3rd party button. Yes, Google track as well and yes, that's also going to put people off, but if you feel the need to have one at all, get a more useful one. Or better yet, remove them all, have local user registration and put a hook in place for developers to plugin other buttons using different contrib repos. Then you can have both without polluting the core project with 3rd party deps.

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

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Post by springogeek »

cyrus_ wrote: post #453
robinhood wrote: post #244

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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.

Instead of "gender", you should make it "preferred pronoun".

I'd like both actually :)
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