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

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Post by robinhood »

psteinweber wrote: post #536

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…

Thanks a lot for your comment!

I love all your ideas you've mentioned there. I've created an issue about it: https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/118 . About the notifications, they all come by email at the moment. I'd love to have a Telegram integration too.

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

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Post by robinhood »

TimJRobinson wrote: post #527

This is amazing! I've been looking for a CRM that is "people management without a sales focus" for a while. Mostly I want a tool to keep track of people I meet at events and the skills they have as well as problems they are facing. Then later on I can connect people who are able to solve each others problems. Looks like this fits the bill, and being open source is great. Thanks for creating this.

My pleasure. Glad you like it :-D

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

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Post by pkulak »

lucb1e wrote: post #399
pkulak wrote: post #363

Really great idea. So, the first thing I did was add my wife, because that just seemed like the right place to start. But then I got into this situation where I was adding myself as the significant other. Is this intended? Is there any concept of "me"?

I half-assume, without looking at the application beyond the front page (I'm still going to), that you're kind of expected to know what your wife has been up to. It might not be a common use-case to select "Me" in the significant other field.

If this thing assumes that I don't need help remembering that stuff, then it has severely overestimated me!

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

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Post by robinhood »

bjt2n3904 wrote: post #512

Holy dependencies, Batman. I started to try and set this up, and spent five minutes letting composer, npm, and bower install things. Gave up when it errored out because Ubuntu 16.04's nodejs was too old.

This is why I use Homestead from Laravel actually. To prevent this kind of headaches.

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

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Post by shmolyneaux »

fnordfnordfnord wrote: post #322
AndrewOMartin wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd argue that Monica should also accept leaving out the gender field all together. I couldn't tell from the front page if it allows this already. I rarely need a reminder of my friends' gender, even if they have an non-gender-specific name. Do the same for marital status if it's not already optional.

What kind of info is it for keeping track of then?

If you know your co-worker's child is named "Sam" you don't want to say "son" if she's actually a girl.

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

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Post by vit05 »

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.

Do you hate any type of ads? I see great potential in having service app options that do not seem to me to be very harmful, but I may be wrong... For example, when I mark that I had dinner with my friend at a Japanese food restaurant that I really liked, I could not have an option to book a table using an app like resy.com. Or yelp to find a different one? Or when I note that the last time I was with a friend, it was in a movie theater and this week will launch its sequel, a link to redbox.com. Or in the case of a band show we like, link to ticketmaster?

It does not have to be something that makes it difficult to use, an icon at the end of the note could be enough.

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

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Post by plttn »

myhf wrote: post #480
vultour wrote: post #469

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My concern was that it seems like the person ID is shared with all users.

The first person I added was somewhere in the 2000s, rather than starting at 1.

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

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Post by estsauver »

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.

The distinction that's often used is "Sex" vs "Gender" to distinguish between the two different usages. Sex is biological Male/Female whereas Gender is the social roles a person is performing.
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