Am I the only one who thinks Ja Rule's line in The Fast and the Furious: "Monicaaaaaaa!"
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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It's not excellent. Nothing about data security, encryption at rest, and a whole load of things that would be covered by GDPR (yes the service is registered in Canada, but GDPR standards should be the benchmark now for what is considered acceptable for anything). This is an intriguing idea as a concept but feels like it isn't a sufficient focus. The privacy page hasn't been updated in 18 months either, yet the releas…
Just as a data point, this is the first time I ever heard about GDPR. Not sure it's "the minimum acceptable standard for anything".
If you have users in the EU/EEA then you _will_ have to comply, or risk a fine of up to €20,000,000 or 4% of your _global_ turnover (whichever is larger).
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#543I look forward to trying this out. This idea has been on my mind for a few years now. Never built it of course :)
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
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This is what a lot of us who don't hate Zuck's guts actually do use FB for.
Yeah, but if you have 10 or more friends your 'wall' gets littered with all kinds of useless information. Unless you unfollow and explicitly tell to not to show any of their likes and other random information.
I do exactly this and have no problem with FB. I only friend people I actually know and care to have interactions with, and I kick anyone who's posts are overall more worth my time than not off my feed. This means my feed is actually worth scrolling through (and takes maybe 10 minutes every couple days to get through) and if I want to see what's going on with some particular person who isn't on my feed, I can go to their page and skim through.
I don't get all the hate on FB. Sure, the default is mess, but that's what most people want, and if it's not what you want, there are means to control it and still have a powerful communication tool. A tool is what you make of it, and it's really not hard to make use of FB in a sane way.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#545Here's a main feature I was looking for. I think I can solve it via "Notes" on a person but I'd love it has a main feature. I think it's similar to the SO and Children boxes.
It would be great to be able to add friends of a contact... so people that you've met once or twice (at your friend Steve's birthday party, for example), you don't know them enough to add as contact but you want to remember their name and where they work, etc. And it's essential that they are somehow connected to the person you know so you can look them up easily next time you go to Steve's party.
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This product is dangerous to privacy. It's easy to imagine how this data could be exploited if Monica is sold to Facebook, Google, etc. How are you working to guarantee my data is protected from any manner use outside my own?
> How are you working to guarantee my data is protected from any manner use outside my own? From the README on Github: "We provide a hosted version of this application on https://monicahq.com . If you prefer to, you can simply clone the repository and set it up yourself on any hosting provider, for free. I'm just asking that you don't try to make money out of it yourself." So to guarantee the privacy of your data, se…
THIS! I had privacy concerns, but you just blew them away. If I can host this in my own server, I'm sold. HUGE THANKS!
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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.
There's the workaround of exporting it from Facebook and then uploading it to Monica. You'd just need to parse the exported files.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#548Here's a main feature I was looking for. I think I can solve it via "Notes" on a person but I'd love it has a main feature. I think it's similar to the SO and Children boxes. It would be great to be able to add friends of a contact... so people that you've met once or twice (at your friend Steve's birthday party, for example), you don't know them enough to add as contact but you want to remember their name and where…
That's a great idea Thanks! https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/117
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#549My uncle died suddenly this year. He was unbelievably caring - and not just to family - but to everyone he ever met. His funeral was jam packed with everyone from homeless people to executives of multi-billion dollar companies. I always thought that his ability to always have you, and whatever you had last talked about with him, on his mind at any moment was some kind of supernatural gift. I was surprised to find out…
Idea: A web site / app where you write what you and your friends have/need, then via social-graph and match-making, you are introduced to other people via friends of friends, and on a set date you do the exchange, so you receive the apples from person A and send your oranges to person B. I used goods in this example, but it should be all but goods or money, it should be like favors, jobs, dates, fishing friend, etc.
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as someone who built a similar product (but for networking), i will reveal a very hard-earned lesson about CRMs that don't target sales & marketing: no one cares. everyone will tell you what a great idea it is, and how useful it could be, but no one wants to do any work to that end. it just doesn't solve a real pain for enough people to build a business around (given the product you present on the home page). however…
Well, who said robinhood wants to build a business around it? For what it's worth, I care about the topic, but I would never want to use a hosted service for something like that. So his decision to build an open source app is the only way to do it. But as I am using my own Nextcloud and XMPP Server I would like to see a simpler setup/update procedure.
you might be right. the few comments i read by robinhood seemed to indicate a desire to make it the core of a SaaS business but maybe not.
that this was designed with self-hosting in mind is a nice nod to privacy though.