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Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by kilroy123 »

Ritepaw wrote: post #18
kilroy123 wrote: post #7

Congrats on the launch! I love the focus on local data only. I've tried several different CRMs to help remind me to keep track of friends, family, and acquaintances. The problem I have is I have thousands of contacts from tons of different sources and from over the years. From Google, old phones, LinkedIn, Apple, and people in emails who aren't contacts. I would love an app that could consolidate all my contacts into…

You sound like a great person to do a user interview with :) Would you be willing to answer some questions in a private chat or call?

Feel free to email me. Details in my profile.

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by wodenokoto »

I used to have an app that could display my iphones contact list in reverse chronological order.

That was very helpful for "what was the name of that guy I met yesterday at that conference?

The app I used has long since been abandoned, and the niche seems littered with scammy apps.

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by petesergeant »

ben0x539 wrote: post #50
Ritepaw wrote: post #2

Some implementation details: The whole app is built in Flutter. It was a first time experience for us. Everything went pretty fast and smooth and the Flutter documentation is amazing! There are tons of resources out there that helped us solving our problems. We just needed to be a bit careful about the plugins. Some were pretty outdated or even unmaintained. But we made sure we encapsulated every plugin so we can eas…

> For now, our app is client-side only. There is no server. Which is nice. Cause it removes complexity and we can leave all the data on our users' phones. That's a relief, when I saw this in the OP I got pretty worried: > Here is what you can do today: > > * Tell us who the people are that matter most to you A company specifically wanting to know that sort of thing sets off some alarm bells!

This feels a bit like complaining a health app wants your medical data though. How else is a personal CRM going to work other than by data about your social graph?

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by wolframhempel »

As someone who puts way less effort than I should into maintaining lasting relationships with people I don't see on a regular basis, this is a great product. Having said that, I feel that "Dear Jo, thank you for being part of *MY* story" (emphasis mine) is the most narcissistic/solipsistic wish imaginable.

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by [deleted] »

wolframhempel wrote: post #85

As someone who puts way less effort than I should into maintaining lasting relationships with people I don't see on a regular basis, this is a great product. Having said that, I feel that "Dear Jo, thank you for being part of *MY* story" (emphasis mine) is the most narcissistic/solipsistic wish imaginable.

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Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by TeMPOraL »

ben0x539 wrote: post #52
Ritepaw wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Time to learn German then ;-) Good find! Let us get this fixed.

I'm German, that's why I was spooked! I'm not in Germany and nothing on my system should be set to German so I was worried you might be applying some sort of mind-reading analytics tech.

Even the order of entries in the Accept-Language header, as per browser settings? That's usually the source of half the problems I have with websites suddenly defaulting to an unexpected language.

(The other half is websites suddenly displaying in Norwegian; it started after I was in Oslo for a few days and, while there, had to re-activate Skype from the website. Even a decade and two jobs later, on completely unrelated computers, some websites will suddenly display in Norwegian, for reasons completely unknown.)

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by TeMPOraL »

CatWChainsaw wrote: post #66
morning-coffee wrote: post #37

If "relationships matter" and you need an app to remind you of that, I'd posit you have a larger problem than any app can solve. Consider putting down the device and connecting with your peeps in the real world every once in a while.

Sibling comments are rather affronted at this, but I happen to agree that leaning into technology to reclaim what we lost to technology in the first place is not actually solving a problem, it's slapping a bandage on and juicing up with some morphine. Technology can't give a person more than the set amount of time, energy, and attention they have by virtue of being human. We're cramming more and more into our lives,…

But optimization is exactly what you called for - subtracting things, rearranging things. Because the issue is that we have little choice in how much stuff we have to cram in our lives. That's the social problem of technology: it's a ratchet.

Consider a clock. Why do you need to know what time is it, with minute accuracy? Because you need to synchronize in time with other people. Why do you need that? Because everyone else does that and it's now a basic part of how society functions. You owning a clock is a default expectation.

How did it came to be this way? The first clocks invented weren't very useful for this (they were for navigation at sea, though), because approximately no one had them. But then someone put clocks on church towers and someone else miniaturized them, and at some point we crossed from it being a convenience to it being necessity.

Same story with calendars, todo lists, having a phone at home, having a phone in your pocket, having a bank account. Emerging additions to this list include having credit/debit cards, having smartphones, having social media accounts. Individually, we can do little about it; at some point, resisting costs more than giving in.

Re: Show HN: A “CRM” for personal relationships

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Post by ben0x539 »

petesergeant wrote: post #84
ben0x539 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For now, our app is client-side only. There is no server. Which is nice. Cause it removes complexity and we can leave all the data on our users' phones. That's a relief, when I saw this in the OP I got pretty worried: > Here is what you can do today: > > * Tell us who the people are that matter most to you A company specifically wanting to know that sort of thing sets off some alarm bells!

This feels a bit like complaining a health app wants your medical data though. How else is a personal CRM going to work other than by data about your social graph?

I don't mind putting data in the app. I don't want to tell the people running it anything.
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