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Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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Absolutely love it. Does it support birthday, anniversary, and other special date reminders? Consider cribbing off of the Monica friends CRM [1] for inspiration. Any plans for an iOS version? [1] https://www.monicahq.com/

I made a personal CRM iOS app for myself and others. It supports these features besides special dates, which is on my road map. It’s basically a privacy and offline friendly UI around a SQLite db.

https://amicu.app/

Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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This is a cool idea. I constantly come across as a dick because a friend will message me, and I'll think about what to respond with, hesitate because I want to come up with the BEST response, then get distracted by another task, forget to text them back until the next day, etc. There are also people I only see every few months and have a blast with, then completely radio silence them for months until I see them again. I really have no idea how to keep up with people.

Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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Hello hackers. I wrote the app and I hope it can help others like me. I’m not very good at keeping in touch with friend and family. Also, my girlfriend likes little text messages here and there, and I’m not good at sending them. So “there’s an app for that,” right? No, there actually wasn’t. So I made one. I define the app as a smart device automation tool for text messages, calls and email that’ll help you stay in t…

I keep wondering what will happen if your girlfriend realizes “the app is doing it” - maybe explain to her that it’s hard for you to send those little messages. I think she’ll then appreciate it even more when you do send them.

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I do not like the name "CommuniqAI". Think about how a person would recommend this app to a friend. A: "Hey, check this out, it's an app called 'CommuniqAI', it's great". B: "How do I spell that?" A: "C-o-m-m-u-n-i-q..." B: "Sorry, I lost you, start over" A: "It starts the same as Communism, but ism it ends in q-A-I" B: "grrr, fuck it. I am going to install Signal or Telegram" Don't make it harder for people to recom…

The name is fine; "Communiqué, but with an AI instead of an é"

Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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Hello hackers. I wrote the app and I hope it can help others like me. I’m not very good at keeping in touch with friend and family. Also, my girlfriend likes little text messages here and there, and I’m not good at sending them. So “there’s an app for that,” right? No, there actually wasn’t. So I made one. I define the app as a smart device automation tool for text messages, calls and email that’ll help you stay in t…

Very nice! Congrats on launching. Pro-tip: do not let others know you have or use this. In general people will instantly devalue your outreaches, even though rationally that makes zero sense. You still think and care about them, but in a way that’s… you.

It is rational to devalue automatic communication. The birthday card you get from your dentist is not valued.

That said I have lost touch with a lot of friends I care about. The best friends are those you can pick back up without maintenance I think.

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Hello hackers. I wrote the app and I hope it can help others like me. I’m not very good at keeping in touch with friend and family. Also, my girlfriend likes little text messages here and there, and I’m not good at sending them. So “there’s an app for that,” right? No, there actually wasn’t. So I made one. I define the app as a smart device automation tool for text messages, calls and email that’ll help you stay in t…

I almost wrote a similar app (but in a much more limited version) to keep up with friends and family but, ironically, as an extrovert. I wanted to have their birthdays and the last time we spoke so I could keep up with them if our contact was slipping. Congrats on launching! I'll take a look at this to see if it fits my use case.

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Hello hackers. I wrote the app and I hope it can help others like me. I’m not very good at keeping in touch with friend and family. Also, my girlfriend likes little text messages here and there, and I’m not good at sending them. So “there’s an app for that,” right? No, there actually wasn’t. So I made one. I define the app as a smart device automation tool for text messages, calls and email that’ll help you stay in t…

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Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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I am sorry but I really think this is a place where we just don’t need “an app for that”. This of course if just my view, but if someone uses this to call me the value of that will be super low.

Stay in touch with those that mean the most to you...by automating your interactions with them with AI!

This is straight out of Silicon Valley.

Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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Disclaimer: I haven't installed the app. Reading the description and seeing the screendumps I get the impression that the app actually does the messaging for you. For me it would be much more valuable to get a reminder to contact people I love and care about. Time runs so fast, I forget it's been a week or two since I last said hello to that person. With a reminder I would be able to keep in touch with people, yet be…

By default, the app will not take any action and largely act as a helpful reminder, and I highly recommend this type of use.
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