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The authors are rewriting this software under a new name. https://github.com/monicahq/chandler
Not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software) I suppose ^^.
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It's self hosted, so you could just run it on the local machine. It's a pity it uses MySQL because pgcrypto could enable you to make the database publicly visible.
Founder of Monica/Chandler here. We support Postgre too, and SQLite on Chandler.
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It's mentioned on their blog: https://www.monicahq.com/blog/a-new-version-is-coming > [...] Monica is an old code base now. Old in the sense that it’s 7 years old and it has been touched by hundred of contributors. There are some concepts in the code that we let through, because we either didn’t know any better back then or because we didn’t want to piss off contributors, that we don’t want anymore. The project has w…
Every re-write I’ve ever seen or been a part of, has either failed or taken way longer and a lot more effort than initially projected. Changing something is definitely not riskier, especially if you have tests and real users who are actively providing feedback as well as showing the edge cases. You can also focus on changing only the things that need changing, instead of having to redo everything just to change some…
Anyone have a review? Do you like Monica and Chandler better than Monday and Asana?
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It's mentioned on their blog: https://www.monicahq.com/blog/a-new-version-is-coming > [...] Monica is an old code base now. Old in the sense that it’s 7 years old and it has been touched by hundred of contributors. There are some concepts in the code that we let through, because we either didn’t know any better back then or because we didn’t want to piss off contributors, that we don’t want anymore. The project has w…
Thanks! Over the years I've seen several companies raise VC money for the personal CRM idea and fail. In a way, I'm glad they didn't raise outside capital and are able to sustain themselves while building something that they are clearly passionate about.
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Founder of Monica/Chandler here. We support Postgre too, and SQLite on Chandler.
This would be great stand alone on a phone.
We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife, yet to be released.
I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)
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It's mentioned on their blog: https://www.monicahq.com/blog/a-new-version-is-coming > [...] Monica is an old code base now. Old in the sense that it’s 7 years old and it has been touched by hundred of contributors. There are some concepts in the code that we let through, because we either didn’t know any better back then or because we didn’t want to piss off contributors, that we don’t want anymore. The project has w…
Every re-write I’ve ever seen or been a part of, has either failed or taken way longer and a lot more effort than initially projected. Changing something is definitely not riskier, especially if you have tests and real users who are actively providing feedback as well as showing the edge cases. You can also focus on changing only the things that need changing, instead of having to redo everything just to change some…
On the face of it what you say is true, but I've seen (and I'm sure many have seen) situations where the codebase was so bad - or the underlying technologies so ancient - that a rewrite was the only practical way to get things back on track again.
Did the rewrite take way longer than initially projected? Yes.
Was it a lot more effort than initially projected? Yes.
Was it painful medicine that nonetheless left the business in a better place? Yes.
I'm not sure why I would need this, especially now that I can codify my personal relationships in iOS and Android. https://www.pcworld.com/article/430990/how-to-teach-contact-...