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Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

#521

Quick note to the founders: You need to add more genders. A lot of early adopters in the Bay Area have friends who are non-binary or are non-binary themselves. I don't want to be forced to mis-gender people who don't identify as male or female.

What do they refer to themselves as? What other genders would you add?

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

#523

Founder here. Here to answer any questions you might have. The site is not perfect, it's not mobile optimized, there are probably bugs, there is a gazillion features missing, no APIs but it's a labour of love, open-source and I hope it will help people other than me. I want to grow this product but I need to know what you need, people. Edit: sorry for the bugs I see on my server popping here and there. Didnt expect t…

as someone who built a similar product (but for networking), i will reveal a very hard-earned lesson about CRMs that don't target sales & marketing: no one cares. everyone will tell you what a great idea it is, and how useful it could be, but no one wants to do any work to that end. it just doesn't solve a real pain for enough people to build a business around (given the product you present on the home page). however…

Well, who said robinhood wants to build a business around it? For what it's worth, I care about the topic, but I would never want to use a hosted service for something like that. So his decision to build an open source app is the only way to do it.

But as I am using my own Nextcloud and XMPP Server I would like to see a simpler setup/update procedure.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

#524

Holy dependencies, Batman. I started to try and set this up, and spent five minutes letting composer, npm, and bower install things. Gave up when it errored out because Ubuntu 16.04's nodejs was too old.

Many open source options are only commercially viable because of these types of difficulties!

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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I think this product is Fantastic. One of the main jobs I hire FB for is Birthdays, looking forward to using this: Few tiny feature requests: - Make the of the page the person you are looking at, really helps with multiple tabs. - Filters for Gender & more options for non-binary Gender would be great. - Just been adding a bunch of contacts, a tiny help would be when pasting a name into first name, to split on space a…

The title page of a person now displays the name of the person you are looking at.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

#526

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I know :-/ Sorry about this, I'm trying to find the best way to explain what it does, without using a boring video that sucks, or poetic terms that say nothing. If you have any idea, please, please let me know :-D

"Your social memory" works much better than "manage your friends and family". So take this as a complaint about the HN headline, not about the site itself.

I wouldn't have clicked through if it said "your social memory". That sounds like some NGO talking about causes.

But this I instantly understood.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

#527
This is amazing! I've been looking for a CRM that is "people management without a sales focus" for a while. Mostly I want a tool to keep track of people I meet at events and the skills they have as well as problems they are facing. Then later on I can connect people who are able to solve each others problems.

Looks like this fits the bill, and being open source is great. Thanks for creating this.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

#528

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Question: Where does the name come from? Is it another female assistant in the vein of Siri, Alexa, etc.?

not saying this is where it came from, but this is where i imagined it came from http://i.imgur.com/JCnWZqR.jpg

Wait, I still don't get it. Can you explain?

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

#529

Founder here. Here to answer any questions you might have. The site is not perfect, it's not mobile optimized, there are probably bugs, there is a gazillion features missing, no APIs but it's a labour of love, open-source and I hope it will help people other than me. I want to grow this product but I need to know what you need, people. Edit: sorry for the bugs I see on my server popping here and there. Didnt expect t…

Why did you decide to make this a site rather than a desktop app? This is a private database as I see it, so there is no need for it to be online. And keeping it offline would be good for privacy, and would make it easy for anyone to download and install, rather than the more complex install needed for a web application (or letting someone else host and sacrificing privacy).

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Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

#530

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Why did you decide to make this a site rather than a desktop app? This is a private database as I see it, so there is no need for it to be online. And keeping it offline would be good for privacy, and would make it easy for anyone to download and install, rather than the more complex install needed for a web application (or letting someone else host and sacrificing privacy).

Because I just know web technologies. Also, because having a web app will allow me to create an API, which will allow to use a mobile app for this, which totally makes sense. If you care about the privacy, you can also host this yourself :-D

Also because there are many times when you may not be in front of your own computer but you have your phone with you.
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