Every time I see some open source project in PHP I get excited, then see "Laravel" and leave to never return.
Domain model coupled with framework and active record... Sorry, unable to contribute :|
Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There's a (repeating) notion in this thread that keeping up with people is somehow linked to how much you care about them. I care deeply about many people I meet, personally, but I don't think the two are necessarily correlated. I wholeheartedly agree. There’s a similar resistance towards books like “How to win friends...”, like you’re a sleazy car salesman for trying to improve your social skills. It’s like harpin…
I think the resistance towards that particular book is because the full title is "How to win friends and influence people". The last part in particular is what makes it sound sleazy. It would be very different if the book had just been called "How to make friends".
> It would be very different if the book had just been called "How to make friends".
I think it is the other way round. People criticize it because "How to make friends" is the first and more prominent part of the title, while the book is not primarily about that. "How to influence people" fits the content much better than "How to win friends" but "influence" isn't the most appropriate word either and I guess that would not have sold the book nearly as well as its actual title.
Apart from that I think there is nothing to criticize about the content, it might be trivial to a degree, but it is solid and ethical advice, if I remember it correctly.
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#133To anyone who’s been self hosting this for sometime — has it been stable, usable and relatively pain free through updates? The hosted plan for $90 a year is way too expensive for me. The reason I ask this question is to figure out if it’s worth trying or not. On another forum, I’d asked about self hosting Ghost (the publishing platform) and someone said that it’s a pain to keep up with it and that the makers of the s…
been hosting it for years and it has been stable
Can confirm, even on a RPI zero w, happy as a clam for years
Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#134Some folks are big on using Roam Research as your personal CRM.
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#135Every time I see some open source project in PHP I get excited, then see "Laravel" and leave to never return. Domain model coupled with framework and active record... Sorry, unable to contribute :|
Personally, I feel Laravel is amongst the top reasons why PHP is so vibrant. The amount of innovation that sprung from Laravel and it’s close ecosystem is amazing, LiveWire, Inertia, Alpine.js, Tailwind just to name a few.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you feel about desktop apps that sync to google drive? I just made scrumsheet.app and a friend mentioned that I should do the same for a personal CRM. Do you trust Google with the data or do you really prefer it to be offline-only?
Software or apps including their own cloudsync are a layering violation. I already have tools to sync my filesystem, just make sure your software writes to a logical location on disk and tools already used will sync.
I highly agree. One of the most frustrating things is when an application provides "cloud-sync" to google drive or iCloud but tools like syncthing or nextcloud that sync local files can't be used.
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#137Every time I see some open source project in PHP I get excited, then see "Laravel" and leave to never return. Domain model coupled with framework and active record... Sorry, unable to contribute :|
Having seen the average quality of open-source PHP projects that don't use Laravel, I think it might be a necessary evil.
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#138I recently developed my own app to solve the same problem, I call the Personal CRM a “PRM” (link here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prim-relationship-manager/id14... ) The privacy comments elsewhere in the thread resonated with me, but I think self hosting is too large a barrier for most users. I decided to build Prim by leveraging iCloud’s local/cloud CoreData storage. This approach ensures I never have access to u…
I tried the app, it crashes quite frequently, but seems like a very neat integration with iOS and I would consider using it if I could understand how data mobility is handled per my other comment.
Thanks!
Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the resistance towards that particular book is because the full title is "How to win friends and influence people". The last part in particular is what makes it sound sleazy. It would be very different if the book had just been called "How to make friends".
> It would be very different if the book had just been called "How to make friends". I think it is the other way round. People criticize it because "How to make friends" is the first and more prominent part of the title, while the book is not primarily about that. "How to influence people" fits the content much better than "How to win friends" but "influence" isn't the most appropriate word either and I guess that wo…
I only read a few chapters of the 1981 revision, but the author always made sure to emphasize that all the tools and techniques were boosters for good intentions, not a replacement for them.
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#140I'd totally pay for something like this, but not $90/year. I'd pay $90 per year for an all-in-one-service to replace Google, but with open source and privacy. It seems like a tough business model, to try to sell a one-off utility like this. Over a 50 year lifetime, that's $4,500. It feels like in the eighties, I'd pay $20 (which is $40 in today's dollars) for a shareware tool, and it'd do this for the rest of my life…
I could host it for you for €49/year: joostwebhost.nl .
You'll get email with it too, all running on open source software. :-)
I mainly focus on WordPress hosting now, but I will add this to my services too.