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Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

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Re: Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

#101
Wow, this sounds an awful lot like the exact app I want. Was thinking about how to build it, but wasn't sure what services could be integrated.

Tell me if does this:

- Connects with FB, WhatsApp, Messenger, LinkedIn, and Gmail

- Checks the message history for each person

- Optionally coalesce users based on simple heuristics (similar name)

- Give you a list of people according to last contact

- Tells you the my turn / your turn of each conversation

Re: Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

#103
Shit. Companies with "my idea" keep getting into YC ... I always feel that my ideas are too crazy but then I see companies with exactly my idea getting into YC. I should just start building them out I guess ...

Looking forward to what you guys build, Dex!

Re: Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

#104
post #94

It seems you have fullstory.com tracking all input & mouse events. Can you confirm? Every few seconds, a large payload goes to fullstory with all details: 47: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day blank"]]} 63: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day", [93, 2], "15", 96]]} 71: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day", [93, 2], "23", 96]]} 72: {Whe…

How would any website or application these days work _without_ full-blown analytics tracking the hell out of every user?

Re: Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

#105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using Monica for a couple of years now and I'm very happy with it for my personal network. It's a great tool to remind me who is connected to whom and what to ask about before attending a party. The online version is here: https://app.monicahq.com/register

Any thoughts on the security model for the hosted service?

We stopped using them at our workplacedue to compliance. they have a lot of issues and not interested in fixing them

Re: Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

#106

Shit. Companies with "my idea" keep getting into YC ... I always feel that my ideas are too crazy but then I see companies with exactly my idea getting into YC. I should just start building them out I guess ... Looking forward to what you guys build, Dex!

Are you me?

do you want to pair up on something and mash something out over the course of a few weekends?

Re: Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

#107
A suggestion that I also proposed to the Monica's founder (with no reply, though) - make it possible to organize contacts around interests. In real life there almost always is some kind of common interest that you share with people - computer games, politics, cars, cooking, whatever. However with different people you have different shared interests.

Re: Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

#108

Wow, this sounds an awful lot like the exact app I want. Was thinking about how to build it, but wasn't sure what services could be integrated. Tell me if does this: - Connects with FB, WhatsApp, Messenger, LinkedIn, and Gmail - Checks the message history for each person - Optionally coalesce users based on simple heuristics (similar name) - Give you a list of people according to last contact - Tells you the my turn…

I would really like for the version of the product to move towards something like this -- a big struggle with relationship management now is some degree of fragmentation.

Some of the integrations you mention (FB/WhatsApp/Messenger/LI) are hard to do since these companies don't expose API access (and we'd have to ask for user credentials, which aren't always straightforward!). I'm very curious -- would you be open to sending your credentials to Dex to enable these integrations?

Re: Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

#109
post #20

How do you plan to make money? Right now everything seems to be free. I'm asking because I hate to be surprised after investing time to curate a CRM.

There is a free tier now; we'll be building out the features of a premium tier ($7.99 / month) for other features. Since data is meant to be private and never shared, we're following a subscription model.

Thanks. So the features we see now will always be free or might some of them change to paid only?

Re: Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

#110
post #94

It seems you have fullstory.com tracking all input & mouse events. Can you confirm? Every few seconds, a large payload goes to fullstory with all details: 47: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day blank"]]} 63: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day", [93, 2], "15", 96]]} 71: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day", [93, 2], "23", 96]]} 72: {Whe…

How would any website or application these days work _without_ full-blown analytics tracking the hell out of every user?

By using a business model that doesn't require raiding the customer's personal information.
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