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

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Actually my first thought was - that guy was a smart-ass showing off. Of course many people wouldn't know a crontab line - Windows (and I guess Mac - never had one) don't have such magical tools.

Mac has cron. It's pretty standard on *NIX systems.

Yeah but is superseded by launchd. So although it has cron, it's not running by default for many years.

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

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What's wrong with .NET? Even if you don't like programming with it you'd get a native application.

That I don't use Microsoft Windows.

You're behind the times. .NET Core makes true cross-platform apps (at least Windows, Macs and Linux).

Though the only way to create cross-platform desktop apps with .NET Core is Electron, so yes, not good.

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

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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…

I really love the idea of this but it seems incredibly arduous to keep it updated. Everytime I do something, call someone, have a conversation, learn something new, have lunch, etc - it all has to be tracked.

I suppose this is the price to be paid if one wants to track all of those things, but much like many other CRMs there are integration points that could make this far less work for the consumer.

Thoughts or plans on this?

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

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The product is super cool and useful, although I hope you won't limit it to being a single-user thing because it could actually evolve into an amazing social tool. But I would really lose the word 'manage', it kind of suggests that personal relations are just another kind of task which is apt to make the people being related to feel devalued because they're not important enough to be given space in someone's day-to-d…

> personal relations are just another kind of task which is apt to make the people being related to feel devalued because they're not important enough to be given space in someone's day-to-day consciousness. You seem to indicate that this devaluation is a sort of false accusation to which we should not make ourselves vulnerable. Yet, that subordinate clause rings true to me as an independent statement. Why should I l…

Get a neurotypical person to explain to you.

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

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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.

Heh, I thought fb allowed that for "apps" (you would have to add Monica as an fb app)?

If not, maybe support fb "archives"?

https://m.facebook.com/help/131112897028467

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

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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…

This would most likely mean that an ad script will drop a cookie, scrape the page and dump your data into some DMP for others to buy.

This very much undermines the value of a privacy-focused service.

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

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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…

A useful feature for me would be to tag people in photos. That's how I cue my memory when I forget someone. The photos also have the time and location, so I can place it on my calendar.

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

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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 f…

If you're concerned about tracking then are you using an ad blocker? Then the FB integration has no affect on you.

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

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This seems super handy. I am kinda interested in seeing if I can get it to run on Sandstorm.io. Then I don't have to put a lot of effort into managing hosting for it, but it seems like it'd be handy and I'd probably use it if I could host it that way. And if you want to let people use your open source thing without having to manage it as a service, there's some nice perks: https://sandstorm.io/developer

Wow, I'm now a fan of Sandstorm!

Have a look at cloudron.io as well

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

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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.

1.28 billion daily active users on average for March 2017 [https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/]

would greatly disagree with your statement. It may not be the answer for everyone, but it could be that tool for a large chunk of the world's population.

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