Technically Facebook is a personal CRM.
If the person in question is mark zuckerberg
Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
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Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#22I'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 (or until my 80286 running DOS became obsolete, whichever came first).
Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#23So what can you do and can't using iOS and it's contacts, reminders, calendars, etc?
It's like - I don't want a TODO app when I can create simple Note with checkboxes.
Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#24I'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…
Luckily it's AGPL 3.0 licensed, so you can happily host it yourself, potentially at a much lower cost.
Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#25Offering this as a hosted instance is tantamount to conspiracy to enable identity theft, and worse. These things just shouldn't be chucked into someone's S3 bucket or SQL database.
Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#26To 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 software have made it in a way that the hosted solution would be preferred by potential users.
Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#27So what can you do and can't using iOS and it's contacts, reminders, calendars, etc? It's like - I don't want a TODO app when I can create simple Note with checkboxes.
The tooling you describe isn't relational. Furthermore, Monica has found great success in helping users with social challenges, maybe with ADHD. The workflow you describe isn't an ideal solution addressing that challenge.
Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#28I'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…
There's always people who aren't prepared to pay the asking price. Maybe they should charge more, especially if it means there's a sustainable business that isn't going to get sold and shut down.
Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#29So what can you do and can't using iOS and it's contacts, reminders, calendars, etc? It's like - I don't want a TODO app when I can create simple Note with checkboxes.
The tooling you describe isn't relational. Furthermore, Monica has found great success in helping users with social challenges, maybe with ADHD. The workflow you describe isn't an ideal solution addressing that challenge.
I would say it's more ideal than Monica. Monica is a separate app from the ones you usually use, using a separate database, with more latency before first input, and more button presses before you can actually store anything. These are all bad features if you're trying to augment short-term memory. I'm not a fan.
(Moreover, Contacts is absolutely relational, in any sense that matters. There's a Relations field. It's stored in a sqlite db.)
Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
#30Just build your own with Airtable for free, and export to CSV if you want to bail out!
They even have an example: https://airtable.com/templates/marketing-and-sales/exp7KcHbb...