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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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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.
If you don't know your co-worker's child's gender, or know it's neither "male" or "female", you don't want to be forced to choose.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
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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.
"The paid version will contain some great features, and will probably be a couple of dollars per month."
Forgive my ignorance, but with the code under the GPL license, how can you offer exclusive features?
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#574Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#575Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you know your co-worker's child is named "Sam" you don't want to say "son" if she's actually a girl.
If you don't know your co-worker's child's gender, or know it's neither "male" or "female", you don't want to be forced to choose.
Why not? What if you have children and get invited to their birthday party? You would want to choose appropriate presents and greeting cards.
It's a tool to help you keeping track of information you don't want to keep track of in your head. My coworkers children are the perfect example for that. Something I do not really care for but something that would make a huge difference.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
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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.
>Sex is biological Male/Female whereas Gender is the social roles a person is performing.
Only in the framework of some fringe theories. Most people do not make that distinction because they believe that there isn't one.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
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Just tried setting it up, pretty simple assuming you're comfortable with Linux. You need MySQL/MariaDB, PHP >= 5.5.9 (see composer.json, require section for version requirements - worked with 7.1.x for me), node/npm, and composer (typically installed from getcomposer.org) Otherwise, directions at https://github.com/monicahq/monica#setup-the-project work with one exception: I'm not familiar with laravel in particular,…
Thanks for this. I think I can probably make the instructions better so you can install it easily.
Edit: Just saw at Github that you are planning all that. https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/30
so nevermind
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Could you include in the instruction a way to set it up on a standalone apache or nginx machine without homestead, docker and all that firlefanz. I would like to just run it on my rusty cabinet server. ---
Great work though.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#578Founder 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…
The first thing I looked for was data export and import. I have an export from google contacts I'd like to import to get started quickly. I would also like to know that I can get my data out to use in other applications (a table for the activity logs joined on the relationship's ID, a table for the relationships, etc.). The "Edit" link under "Personal Information" should also be Blue, like the "Add" links under the o…
Same here - especially for export. I'm hesitant about pouring in hours and data into this if it's locked in one place unable to be pulled or migrated.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#579Founder 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…
The first thing I looked for was data export and import. I have an export from google contacts I'd like to import to get started quickly. I would also like to know that I can get my data out to use in other applications (a table for the activity logs joined on the relationship's ID, a table for the relationships, etc.). The "Edit" link under "Personal Information" should also be Blue, like the "Add" links under the o…
Same here - especially for export. I'm hesitant about pouring in hours and data into this if it's locked in one place unable to be pulled or migrated.
Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#580Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"The paid version will contain some great features, and will probably be a couple of dollars per month." Forgive my ignorance, but with the code under the GPL license, how can you offer exclusive features?
Just like any other company that has a community edition and a paid version. (See owncloud or nginx)
As author he is at liberty to publish his own product under whatever license he wishes.
And if he wants to sell a "enterprise" version under a proprietary license he is free to do so.