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Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by robinhood »

danmur wrote: post #76
robinhood wrote: post #37

Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler 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 :-)

Is the Chandler name a reference to the Chandler PIM?

No. It's a codename in reference to Monica and the Friends tv show. Chandler being the one who dates Monica (no spoiler). Right now we have two repos on Github, but we have to find a way to merge Chandler to Monica in the future so we don't lose those precious stars :-)

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by rtheunissen »

robinhood wrote: post #80
Xeoncross wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First, thank you for your work. I must admit though I was hoping that the rewrite would be in Go (or Rust) for the simple use case of a dead-simple binary deploy with a built in sqlite or rocks/level database that can handle as many users as you can throw at it on a $2-5 VPS instance.

In terms of simplicity, nothing beats PHP. It's easily deployable everywhere, everyone knows how to use this simple language, and the Laravel ecosystem is fantastic. But I understand what you mean.

I've been using PHP for a decade and recently started building APIs in Go. Everything about the process has been significantly simpler, from packages to testing to deploying and debugging. I don't think I can ever go back, and this is coming from someone who still loves PHP and works with both Go and Laravel daily.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by robinhood »

joshuahaglund wrote: post #79
Xeoncross wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First, thank you for your work. I must admit though I was hoping that the rewrite would be in Go (or Rust) for the simple use case of a dead-simple binary deploy with a built in sqlite or rocks/level database that can handle as many users as you can throw at it on a $2-5 VPS instance.

There's a Docker image for Moncica which seems pretty dead-simple https://github.com/monicahq/docker

As a matter of fact, Monica has an official Docker image here: https://hub.docker.com/_/monica

(I'm super proud to say that we have an official Docker image, official being the label the Docker granted us last year as they (Docker, the company) maintain it. There are not a lot of official Docker images, but we are part of it, and it's awesome)

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by Tao3300 »

erisian wrote: post #72

This project makes me feel sick.

Yeah, me too! When I got to the part

> Can you remember the names of the children of all your friends? Can you remember the wedding anniversary of your brother? Can you tell the last time you called your grand mother and what you talked about?

I freaked out because I can't remember any of that stuff. I have to keep my kids' birthdays in an app just so I can recall how old they are.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by robinhood »

erisian wrote: post #72

This project makes me feel sick.

Author of the project here. Sorry about this. Monica is not for everyone. I built it for me because I can't remember stuff. It's not my fault, I have a really bad memory and I think I'm somehow autistic. I would prefer that I didn't need it, and I hope no one will ever need it, but we do. So for a certain type of people, it's useful. Do you know that this tool is used in a lot of religious organizations? For prison visitors? For clubs and associations? It's good that some people find it useful for them.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by zach_garwood »

danmur wrote: post #76
robinhood wrote: post #37

Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler 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 :-)

Is the Chandler name a reference to the Chandler PIM?

It's a reference to Chanandler Bong.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by [deleted] »

robinhood wrote: post #81
danmur wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the Chandler name a reference to the Chandler PIM?

No. It's a codename in reference to Monica and the Friends tv show. Chandler being the one who dates Monica (no spoiler). Right now we have two repos on Github, but we have to find a way to merge Chandler to Monica in the future so we don't lose those precious stars :-)

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Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

rtheunissen wrote: post #82
robinhood wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In terms of simplicity, nothing beats PHP. It's easily deployable everywhere, everyone knows how to use this simple language, and the Laravel ecosystem is fantastic. But I understand what you mean.

I've been using PHP for a decade and recently started building APIs in Go. Everything about the process has been significantly simpler, from packages to testing to deploying and debugging. I don't think I can ever go back, and this is coming from someone who still loves PHP and works with both Go and Laravel daily.

I've been exploring doing some of my PHP stuff in Go and my opinion has been the complete opposite. PHP, I can just start composing a page; Go, I have to implement a router and serving static content.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by swyx »

robinhood wrote: post #35
muratsu wrote: post #17

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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.

Author of Chandler here. We are able to sustain the server costs, but we have full time jobs "on the side" because it's not sustainable. I don't know if it's ever will. Don't care :-) Raising capital would make this project a full time job, and put tremendous pressure on having to generate revenues. We don't want this pressure at all. We want to provide a nice and useful software because we are geeks and we want to d…

this comment sold me on trying out Monica. thank you for doing what you do.
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