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

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Post by robinhood »

billpg wrote: post #516
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…

How much will it cost? (Your service, not hosting my own copy.) If its free, how will you pay for your costs? (Ads? Selling my data?)

No ads, ever, I hate them. No reselling of data, that practice is the worst for me.

I plan to provide a paid version with an extremely generous free version. The paid version will contain some great features, and will probably be a couple of dollars per month.

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

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Post by r0muald »

I'm surprised no one has mentioned friends https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends a command line tool that does a lot of what Monica aims to do. A Ruby gem that will be "friendly" only to laptop users, but with a wide community and continued development.

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

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Post by blairbeckwith »

keithpeter wrote: post #161
LordKano wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your uncle sounds like an interesting man. I wish I could have known him.

I'd echo that sentiment. I'm also curious as to the format of the spreadsheet! How did Uncle add new events &c - just modify a cell or add a new row with some kind of key? I'm interested in tracking interactions with my adult education students...

Been thinking about this at the same time I've been trying to find a use for Airtable. It seems like a great product but I've never had an obvious use case until now. Seems like it could be a great fit.

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

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Post by jaclaz »

fmueller wrote: post #501
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.

>For example it can be important to know whether an individual can get pregnant or not. Out of curiosity, can you explain why you would want something like that?

You would then need a sub-item for the medical history, one can well be of the "right" gender (female) to become pregnant but be infertile nonetheless, whether from birth, due to some accident or due to the effects of another medical condition doesn't really matter.

And that would probably be the kind of information that you shouldn't be allowed to know, record and store online.

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

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Post by psteinweber »

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.

Or simply ask for the biological sex instead.

-> Possible answers: Male, Female, Intersex.

I find this way of asking being inclusive and in the same time simple to handle from a data/filtering standpoint.

Gender identification nowadays (vs. biological sex) can be used as a very creative and highly individual expression. And while that's is totally fine, it's not what I'd be interested in in the context of a CRM.

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

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Post by psteinweber »

Love it!

Feature requests and ideas are obviously not scarce today - I too have some ideas after playing with it for a bit:

- It would be great if there would be a place to set up a new activity that includes multiple people. So entering a birthday party with 15 people is a bit more practical than it is now. I first thought that's what the journal is about, but it doesn't seem have this feature (yet?). Like it is now, the journal seems not very useful at all to be honest.

- I'd love to set up relationships (SO, children, and more) between existing/full contacts, rather than the child and SO field setting up an "elaborate note".

- Do the notifications reach me in any way? Would be awesome to check a box if I want a reminder via email or browser notification

Even without those features I can see myself using this. Thanks!

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

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Post by loco5niner »

chenster wrote: post #423
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.

But not one uses FB. I got friends who are on Line and WeChat exclusively. Some part of the world don't have access to FB.

"Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded" - anonymous, but often attributed to Yogi Berra

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

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Post by NoGravitas »

derefr wrote: post #302
wccrawford wrote: post #270

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It becomes a problem when you've got people who are incredibly single-minded about something. I don't mind my coworker's weekly posts about car stuff at all, even though I have no interest whatsoever. And when he posts some progress on some car repair he's doing, I'm glad to see he's doing something he loves. But when my SJW friend posts yet another ridiculous over-the-top post about how all X are X, and somehow thin…

I have a slowly-brewing notion that it will eventually be a matter of etiquette, to ensure that any content your produce is properly tagged such that people can treat you as a subset of yourself. Eventually —hopefully—it will be seen as incredibly uncouth to intermingle personal, political, and pastime content into one feed with no ability to re-separate them. But that time is, sadly, not today. Until then, building…

One thing I've been noticing about Mastodon[0] is that it is incredibly easy to segregate your personal, political, and pastime posts, trivially by having multiple sites in multiple browser tabs, but even better with a client that supports multiple accounts. You can tie your different identities together through your profile, and import/export your subscription lists between instances. And everyone who follows you can follow only those of your identities that they are interested in.

[0]: https://joinmastodon.org/

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

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Post by quadrangle »

robinhood wrote: post #531
billpg wrote: post #516

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much will it cost? (Your service, not hosting my own copy.) If its free, how will you pay for your costs? (Ads? Selling my data?)

No ads, ever, I hate them. No reselling of data, that practice is the worst for me. I plan to provide a paid version with an extremely generous free version. The paid version will contain some great features, and will probably be a couple of dollars per month.

> No ads, ever, I hate them.

Thank you! We shouldn't trust anyone who thinks otherwise. It should be considered shameful to show paid advertising.

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