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Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
- tryitnow 9y agoQuick 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.
- sigi45 9y agoYes! This! Exactly! tx. wait, what?
- cat199 9y agoAlso food products. I identify as lemon jello, personally.
- AndrewOMartin 9y agoI'd argue that Monica should also accept leaving out the gender field all together. I couldn't tell from the front page if it allows this already. I rarely need a reminder of my friends' gender, even if they have an non-gender-specific name. Do the same for marital status if it's not already optional.
- fnordfnordfnord 9y agoWhat kind of info is it for keeping track of then?
- AndrewOMartin 9y agoWhat you did, where you went, that thing they said they have coming up, the names of their kids, big things in their kids future, birthdays, bands they said they liked, places they said you should visit, where they live, where they have lived, institutions they've worked at, why their granddad is notable, minor celebrities they're related to, areas of science they're interested in, games they said they'd like to play. Stuff that was part of the conversation that you might want to recall next time you're speaking to them, or that might make you contact them.
- shmolyneaux 9y agoIf you know your co-worker's child is named "Sam" you don't want to say "son" if she's actually a girl.
- AndrewOMartin 9y agoIf you don't know your co-worker's child's gender, or know it's neither "male" or "female", you don't want to be forced to choose.
- owlmirror 9y agoWhy not? What if you have children and get invited to their birthday party? You would want to choose appropriate presents and greeting cards. It's a tool to help you keeping track of information you don't want to keep track of in your head. My coworkers children are the perfect example for that. Something I do not really care for but something that would make a huge difference.
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- robinhood 9y agoDefinitely. My bad. The kind of stuff you don't think about when you are your only user. I'll add that, as well as the possibility to not indicate gender at all.
- fnordfnordfnord 9y agoThe gender field will have to be changeable as well, since people might come out or change after they join, or after a record is created.
- cyrus_ 9y agoInstead of "gender", you should make it "preferred pronoun".
- springogeek 9y agoI'd like both actually :)
- gwbas1c 9y agoThere's a difference between accepting people for what they are, and getting carried away. A field for "other" or "it's complicated" is plenty.
- jlebrech 9y agoit's opensource
- fmueller 9y agoI think he/she should leave the gender there but add an additional field "identified as gender" or something like this. I mean it should still be possible for me to categorize people by their physical gender/sex. For example it can be important to know whether an individual can get pregnant or not.
- jaclaz 9y ago>For example it can be important to know whether an individual can get pregnant or not. Out of curiosity, can you explain why you would want something like that? You would then need a sub-item for the medical history, one can well be of the "right" gender (female) to become pregnant but be infertile nonetheless, whether from birth, due to some accident or due to the effects of another medical condition doesn't really matter. And that would probably be the kind of information that you shouldn't be allowed to know, record and store online.
- estsauver 9y agoThe distinction that's often used is "Sex" vs "Gender" to distinguish between the two different usages. Sex is biological Male/Female whereas Gender is the social roles a person is performing.
- owlmirror 9y ago>Sex is biological Male/Female whereas Gender is the social roles a person is performing. Only in the framework of some fringe theories. Most people do not make that distinction because they believe that there isn't one.
- brango 9y agoWhat do they refer to themselves as? What other genders would you add?
- psteinweber 9y agoOr simply ask for the biological sex instead. -> Possible answers: Male, Female, Intersex. I find this way of asking being inclusive and in the same time simple to handle from a data/filtering standpoint. Gender identification nowadays (vs. biological sex) can be used as a very creative and highly individual expression. And while that's is totally fine, it's not what I'd be interested in in the context of a CRM.
- tabeth 9y agoLooks neat. As an aside, why is it named after a woman? I'm genuinely curious.
- robinhood 9y agoThanks. Well, I built this website because I didn't have a spouse at that time, and I suffered socially from this, not being able to remember important things about my friends (call it selective memory or what not). My partner used to be the one who always reminded me these kind of things. It's an hommage to her.
- tertius 9y agoI like that, our significant others usually fill in gaps where we lack. My wife has stellar memory, mine, not so much.
- rconti 9y agoHuh. I was sure it was a, uh, racially-tinged joke from knowyourmeme.
- rconti 9y ago(incidentally, NOT a joke)
- MrQuincle 9y agoNot relevant to your product, but that's the sweetest thing I've read since a long time on HN. Good luck!
- shubhajeet2107 9y agoI thought it was monica from Friends TV show, she used to remind people to do things all the time !
- Curious42 9y agoMonica from Friends was high maintenance
- robinhood 9y agoFounder 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 that much users and traffic.
- muzakthings 9y ago1) Does it integrate with my calls from my iOS / emails from gmail? So that I can sort by "least recently connected"? otherwise writing notes each time and looking it up gets tiresome. 2) is there a mobile app? 3) how much will it cost monthly? 4) how are reminder sent?
- robinhood 9y ago1) No 2) no 3) nothing 4) by email :-D
- djaychela 9y agoin reference to 4) any chance of adding something like pushbullet? https://docs.pushbullet.com/ https://docs.pushbullet.com/
- espo 9y agoA similar service is Pushover. They have an e-mail gateway that allows you to send e-mails to your custom Pushover e-mail address and have it be converted into Pushover notifications. Each user has a @pomail.net address assigned when their account is created, and additional addresses can be created with custom options for each one such as a default sound. Highly recommend it.
- Splatter 9y agoI love the idea of a personal CRM. However, I hate the idea of duplication of effort. If you can't create interfaces to these other apps, then perhaps make sure you create an interface to IFTTT with enough control that would let me aggregate my data (phone calls, emails, etc.) to folks in Monica without user intervention.
- fil_a_del_fee_a 9y agoI like it! I definitely could use something like this. I am GLAD that you mention "It’s for your eyes only.". Very important feature.
- positivecomment 9y agoThanks for making this open-source. It seems to use Homestead for deployments and Homestead apparently needs a VM. Is there a way to make this work without a VM or have a docker file maybe?
- robinhood 9y agoWell, I use Homestead because it's much more convenient. But you can use anything that you want, as long as you have PHP and mySQL. MAMP, for instance, XAMP, or really whatever. Have you heard of Valet (https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/valet https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/valet) ?
- positivecomment 9y agoNo I'm very alien to the PHP ecosystem. Valet seems to be Mac-only. I'm a happy Windows user who has some Linux servers to play around. It would be very nice to have a step-by-step manual installation guide, then who knows, maybe you would get a pull-request with a Dockerfile! :)
- robinhood 9y agoThis is where I need the community. I'm just a small Laravel amateur developer who doesn't know much about Docker I love simple solutions and Laravel seemed to me the easiest way to build something simple, and more importantly, easily maintainable, which is the most important for me.
- positivecomment 9y agoThat's what I meant, I would contribute a dockerfile, which people may use to run the application with one command. Would standard Laravel instructions to deploy an app[1] help me here or do you need additional steps? [1]: Maybe something like https://medium.com/laravel-news/the-simple-guide-to-deploy-laravel-5-application-on-shared-hosting-1a8d0aee923e https://medium.com/laravel-news/the-simple-guide-to-deploy-l... (first thing I could find)
- TheWindUpPirate 9y agoLooks interesting. Definitely something that could be useful. Issue I have is getting my data in to the system. Would be good to be able to pull contacts from a CSV / Google account / Facebook account.
- tertius 9y agoSecurity. Make me feel safe when adding very personal information about people I meet. (Btw. I've been considering building something like this myself, I meet so many people that I want to recognize and remember what they told me about themselves. Memory fails me almost every time unless I really put the effort in. Right now I just make a note after every interaction using Simplenote, better than nothing.)
- robinhood 9y agoThe security aspect is also very important to me. I'm trying to do my best to make it secure by following best practices, and this is also one of the reasons I've open sourced it actually, so the community can help make it better and check that I don't do nasty stuff with it.
- positivecomment 9y agoDo you have any plans to integrate with contacts on any device/platform? It may allow you to automatically save calls and manage metadata in sync with an established system.
- robinhood 9y agoI've been thinking about this. First step would be an API. Second step would be to either me learn Cocoa, ObjC or .NET to do this on the phones/desktops apps, etc..., or let the community do it.
- jakecraige 9y agoTools like React Native and Electron are pretty popular these days to build cross-platform apps and such. Since you know web stuff and I'm assuming JS, those might be a good option to explore so you could maintain them without having to learn the entire toolchain of building for various platforms
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- 1123581321 9y agoNice project. Keep in mind I'm just a tire-kicker on HN, but it would be neat to have dynamic periodic reminders similar to spaced repetition learning algorithms except you rate the strength of the relationship after each session. Strong ratings mean you can see them a little less frequently; weak means you should see them (a little) more frequently. Ideally this would let you maximize the number of maintainable acquaintances. Unfortunately (for some), it would also prevent any from getting too close. :)
- robinhood 9y agoThanks for the idea. How would you rate the strength of the relationship? A star mechanism?
- 1123581321 9y agoYes, I'm imagining 1-5 stars with text descriptions to help ratings be consistent, similar to how software like http://mnemosyne-proj.org/features http://mnemosyne-proj.org/features handles ratings.
- robinhood 9y agoIsn't it weird though to put stars on people?
- 1123581321 9y agoYes, it is weird. :) It's just a fun idea I've had that requires some kind of 'friends CRM' such as the one you've developed.
- Raphmedia 9y agoSnapchat does it. http://emojipedia.org/snapchat/ http://emojipedia.org/snapchat/
- winkle 9y agoOther CRM tools I've used will allow you to create groups/categories of contacts and set the recurrence to contact people in that group. You could similarly rate the group instead of individuals. Then the user could re-evaluate based on the group (friends, colleague, family, etc)
- YPCrumble 9y agoThis is very cool! My question is, is this really free? If so, how and why? It seems like it was a ton of work to build and presumably you could monetize it somehow - is that just something you're planning to do later on? If it gets a lot of users, how will you pay the (albeit small) server costs? I'm curious. Thanks again for building it!
- robinhood 9y agoIt's free for now. I wanted first to see if there is an interest. The product is open source, so it'll be free forever anyway. I like the GitLab approach - free for everyone, but perhaps put some way to monetize this. I just have NO idea how. I honestly didn't think about it, because I wanted to have a side project that would be useful for people, and I don't know if people need this.
- fnordfnordfnord 9y agoI think some may fear it for one of the natural monetization routes for a product like this, selling the personal info to marketers, intel-companies, credit agencies, etc.
- robinhood 9y agoOh, and server costs is Linode (love Linode) on their 10$ monthly plan. This kind of product does not need expensive server anyway, it's pretty basic.
- bshimmin 9y agoIt seems to me like the kind of thing where a 30 day free trial followed by a small monthly fee ($5? I don't know, something in that ballpark perhaps) might work - if people enjoy using it and become dependent on it during the trial, at least a portion of them will be okay with paying afterwards.
- noxToken 9y agoThis seems like something I may use. I have terrible memory, so I never remember birthdays, anniversaries or even my own doc appointments. Tangentially related: I wonder what the fallout is for the average person who may get discovered using this. I could see someone catching flack for having software send them reminders of things that "should be important enough to remember". Then again, what's wrong with using technology to help me enrich my relationship with others?
- robinhood 9y agoThat's something I've struggled with while building the v1. I wondered if it was moral to use technology to help me have better relationships. I'm the kind of guy who hates Facebook and all the bad things the technology has brought into our lives. And yet, ironically, I do something like this. But the motivation behind is genuinely pure: I really want to be better at remembering things about the ones that I love.
- cr0sh 9y ago> I really want to be better at remembering things about the ones that I love. Marketing idea: Those with failing memory (for whatever reason) and/or their caretakers.
- robinhood 9y agoI submitted the site to Reddit 9 months ago, and there seemed to be an interest for people with difficult social skills, actually.
- bastih 9y agoLooks like this is a service only for very young people? Got this wonderful error while trying to add my father. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ijdfvwtua5nwy6p/Screenshot%202017-06-06%2016.53.14.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ijdfvwtua5nwy6p/Screenshot%202017-...
- jakecraige 9y agoUS style dates, you probably want 03/18/1965
- Jedd 9y agoYou, certainly I, definitely want ISO8601 dates -- ie. yyyy-mm-dd
- robinhood 9y agoLocalization is important - I might need to change date format depending on the language you select. Currently Monica supports both French and English.
- wsinks 9y agoJust force people to use GMT and European style dates! :D
- robinhood 9y agoOops :-D Submit a pull request Thanks for the bug notice, I'll fix this. https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/16 https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/16
- rrggrr 9y agoIMHO: You want to pivot this product, now, to compete with ourfamilywizard.com. OFW is a great concept but the site runs slow, its search and reporting is erratic and basic, and the UI can be difficult. It is, however, the only game in town for managing divorced families and its about $200 per year. It also features: - Timestamped and hashed communications and records. - Lower price point than OFW. - More intuitive reporting. This will NOT have widespread appeal under its current use, and will be tough to make money from.
- wink 9y agoCall me cynical, but I find the term CRM pretty wrong. Yes, I understand what it does, people have been keeping track of this stuff (if I read the intro page correctly) for ages, and still I find this borderline creepy and overengineered. Disclaimer: I am using e.g. Facebook's "On this day" feature to reminisce about old stuff with friends, I also keep birthdays in a calendar. Maybe just the professional spin puts me off :)
- robinhood 9y agoI understand what you mean. I don't like it either, but I've yet to find another way of explaining quickly what it does. A CRM for friends is very explanatory. But I dislike the creepiness of it.
- wink 9y agoAlso maybe it's a not-a-native-speaker thing, but your use of "Manage significant others" gave me a good chuckle because all I could think of at first how it can help to hide your affair from your spouse. :)
- robinhood 9y agoAh ah - well. Definitely a non native speaker thing. If you want to help fine tune the marketing site, it's open source too. https://github.com/monicahq/monicahq.github.io https://github.com/monicahq/monicahq.github.io
- emwjacobson 9y agoTo be fair, as a native speaker it still confused me off the bat, haha.
- jholman 9y agoMaybe it's not hidden. :)
- smacktoward 9y ago
- jon_black 9y agoNice idea. Any chance you could fix the privacy policy link?
- robinhood 9y agoOf course. In order to open source the product, I had to separate the marketing app from the code of the main app, and I forgot to update the link. Doh. Thanks for noticing, here is the link: https://monicahq.com/privacy.html https://monicahq.com/privacy.html
- joshstrange 9y agoLove this idea, the things that would really make it a no-brainer for me would be ability to upload multiple photos for a contact (or in a note) and a native/hybrid app. I could probably deal with the webapp on my phone but an app with push notifications would be ideal IMHO.
- robinhood 9y agoWhy multiple photos for one contact? I get the importance of one photo, but why multiple? Yeah, if only I knew how to create mobile apps, I'd do it in a hearbeat. One more thing I need to learn.
- joshstrange 9y agoI can speak highly of Ionic for developing hybrid mobile apps using HTML/JS/CSS
- jakecraige 9y agoCool product. I've used calendars in the past to maintain this kind of thing but a product has many more features than a calendar so I'm into it. A mobile app would definitely be nice for this kind of product at some point. Push notifications for reminders / an easy entry system, integration with contacts, calendar, etc. Either way. Thanks for this cool product, and OSS-ing it.
- robinhood 9y agoThanks. Definitely. I also love the idea of OSS-ing a product. At least people will be able to contribute, or read the code and see that I have no plans in doing nasty stuff with their data at all.
- CrossWired 9y agoLove the idea, would like to see: * Imports from Facebook or CardDav, one at a time is horrendous. * Relate contact to Social Facebook/LinkedIn/Meetup? * Add activity from LinkedIn/Facebook other social sites to contacts * Native App
- zokier 9y agoInteresting. Would it make sense to integrate this to various social media, so that you could see your contacts profiles or recent activity, or maybe even integrate messaging?
- robinhood 9y agoYeah, one of my idea would be to have a Chrome extension where you would see the private notes about the contact you are currently seeing on Facebook, for instance.
- LarryPage 9y agoYes but can I easily redirect my inlaws?
- robinhood 9y agoRedirect to... what? Unless it's a joke I don't understand :-/
- livingparadox 9y agoIts a joke. Based on the trope of people having a poor relationship with their in-laws.
- _RPM 9y agoI find this utopian. Another strange thing: "Manage significant others". Maybe it's just me, but I have exactly 1 significant other.
- robinhood 9y agoNot your significant other per se - the significant others of all your contacts, combined
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- cperciva 9y agoIs anyone else getting a dystopian vibe from the idea of "managing" friends and family? I can definitely see this service being useful, but that branding makes me feel very uncomfortable.
- robinhood 9y agoI 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
- macawfish 9y agoLots of people use planners and datebooks to remember important dates (like your high school best friend's upcoming wedding!) And lots of people use journals or diaries to take notes or keep memories. These things are less about "managing" and more about cultivating relationships and memories. "Organizing" is a word with less controlling vibes. Maybe start there and take a journey through the thesaurus? http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/organizing?s=t http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/organizing?s=t
- robinhood 9y agoOhhh that's a very good idea. I disliked the notion of management, and organization makes much more sense. Thanks a lot!
- SomeHacker44 9y agoCRM? No... PRM... Personal Relationship Management. :)
- robinhood 9y agoIs there such a thing? If there is, I'll switch the wording in no time :-D
- amagasaki 9y agoYou have built such a thing! :-D
- wsinks 9y agoDon't worry about things not being a thing. You're making the thing
- tobych 9y agoOkay, that made my day. Quotable.
- SomeHacker44 9y agoRobin Hood has now officially thinged that PRM thing, sayeth Hacker News™.
- chenster 9y agoThat's what I thought. Not a new concept. Google it.
- DaiPlusPlus 9y agoYup - looking through the brochure website just made me think "Private-instance of Facebook" - and the reminders and notifications seem like something Apple's Siri will eventually do when they progress further on their "Proactive" functionality. What's frustrating is that Outlook (you know... the big, old Enterprise-y PIM system) already supports a lot of the functionality present in Monica, such as keeping track of birthdays, anniversaries, personal notes, related calendar events, and so on - you can also arbitrary link different contacts together to define relationships (not the same thing as "linking contact cards" to aggregate a single contact's data). Many things about Outlook frustrate me - in this case it's how Contacts management is now frozen in time - but it's also heartbreaking that Outlook was a genuinely innovative (and performant!) PIM system in its early days, but there hasn't been any innovation in Outlook's PIM functionality in the past 10 years (seriously - the feature-set for Contacts, Tasks and Notes is literally unchanged since Outlook 2007 - and even then the only significant change was adding contact photos). It wouldn't take much, besides some courage, to update Outlook's Contacts experience to be more up-to-date with the functionality provided by modern social-media platforms - it's just so close. But because it's now so entrenched it's very unlikely we'll see any significant change until someone pulls a Slack on Outlook (a-la Slack vs Lync) to prompt Microsoft into trying to compete - assuming we're not doomed to yet another Electron app. shudder If anyone in the Desktop Outlook team is reading this - especially if you work on Contacts, please fix my biggest gripes with Contacts: 1. Make Outlook fast again. It shouldn't take 2-4 seconds to switch between Mail, Contacts and Calendars. 2. Don't make new recurring Calendar Events for Contact Birthdays and Anniversarys - why can't you have 'virtual' events in their own special calendar layer like all other systems do (even Windows 10 Calendar does) - so I don't get multiple event reminders for someone's birthday (from the 'real' calendar events that Desktop Outlook creates combined with the 'virtual' events from Windows 10 Calendar). 3. Give me more control over Contact Photos - show me the file-size, let me crop them. I don't like having to switch to my phone to edit contact photos. 4. I have contacts with more than 3 email addresses, more than 2 mailing addresses, and more than 1 mobile phone number - why is this limitation still a thing? 5. Retain a history of all Contact fields over time instead of requiring me to maintain "backup" contacts that contain older details.
- rsync 9y agoI built one of these for myself in 1995 and have been happily using it ever since. Here's the source code: 0 0 19 7 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: john T. birthday" me@mydomain.com 0 0 1 8 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: MAKE xmas hotel reservations NOW for good pricing..." me@mydomain.com
- anonu 9y agoYou make your xmas hotel reservations on January 8? :) That's thinking ahead...
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- rak00n 9y agoCould you explain how it works? I wonder what 0 0 19 7 * means.
- joyeuse6701 9y agoThis is a CRON Job and the notation indicates the time and frequency that an action should take place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
- niklasrde 9y agoHave a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#Overview. In short: At 00:00 hours on 19/07 (i.e. July 19) execute that command. The * means 'regardless of what day of the week it is'.
- anonu 9y agoIsnt this what facebook does? Except facebook is actually way more fun to use. Sure - they take all my information and sell it to the highest bidder. But I get cool "personalized videos" in return, for example. And all my friends are already on there - so they can do most of the CRM data input for me.
- robinhood 9y agoThis is exactly what I don't want this product to become: Facebook. Facebook is social. Monica is NOT social. It's only for you. It's like your personal diary, except online. It's made to store things that shouldn't be seen by anyone. It's to manage YOUR personal relationships. It has nothing to do with a social community.
- menacingly 9y agoFor me, that distinction was clearly expressed in the link and product info
- caleblloyd 9y agoNah, Facebook shows you political and clickbait snippets with links to off-site ad heavy articles and also does autoplay videos of dogs. On rare occasions, it notifies you that somebody got engaged or had a baby, but that's about the only similarity to Monica as far as I can tell.
- Allower 9y agoFacebook, fun to use? wtf
- mangandini 9y agoIt would be nice to have an option to set relationship (wife, son, daughter, friends etc) so in the future maybe I can even watch my genealogical tree or just select to see my family or friends
- robinhood 9y agoI will do it :-D https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/19 https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/19
- lcall 9y agoI like this idea. :) We could even collaborate if interested. For the very same purposes, plus to organize everything else I want to, I wrote and use OneModel (AGPL), creating inside it a calendar with ticklers, lists of gift ideas or other ideas for activities, etc, all sorted by when I want to see them or how I can most easily find them in a hierarchy. I have created a sort of structure for things I might to remember about each person (journal of past interactions, contact info, etc etc) that I also use for my dealings with some businesses so I can revisit who said what when, if needed. And it can auto-provide the structure in for future persons or organizations I add to my contact list, but only when wanted. Same with anything else I want to track. And it creates a soft of personal journal for me as a side-effect, by exporting everything created (or archived) for date ranges, so my odd random notes fit in also. It lets you optionally mark things as public or private, export things as .txt outlines or an .html mini-web site, and (hopefully) soon exchange info with others if desired. Self- or my-hosted. Unfortunately, OM also lacks a nice video and installation is still manual (some postgres config instructions then "java -jar...") until interest warrants a real installer. I use it for everything (no mobile support yet) and it is extremely efficient for a touch typist, and easy to learn as everything is on the screen in menus generated context-sensitively on the fly. Many details, download, FAQs and future plans at: http://onemodel.org http://onemodel.org .
- lcall 9y agoIf we did collaborate, your strength would probably include UI & web work. OneModel's might include its powerful and flexible internal structure and REST api that I am finishing (on the github "wip" branch). Just some thoughts, as I don't know your's internals at all of course.... Forgive me if I'm being presumptuous.
- oever 9y agoonemodel looks good. I'd love it as a knowledge graph editor that focuses on information from a personal standpoint. Would be interesting to map the data model to RDF. Java has many good RDF libraries such as Jena.
- lcall 9y ago
- bravura 9y agoI would like a minimal CRM for super-connectors. People like investors, promoters, etc. who traffic in relationships, and develop social capital from making introductions. When trying to make an introduction, it's exceedingly hard to search your extensive network under certain criteria. Particularly if you want "fuzzy" matching, i.e. not just restricted to a specific geography or tag (e.g. "entrepreneur"), but looking for nearby geographies and tags. [edit: Facebook has recently disabled Graph search features and it is exceedingly difficult even to figure out which of your friends is in a particular city.]
- wsinks 9y agoGood to know about Facebook. I want what you want. I'd love to know if you ever find something! Main question - how do you profit from being a super-connector? Or do you never directly profit from it?
- Arkdy 9y agoYou might be interested in _friends(1)_ which is a cli implementation of something similar :) I really liked how it showed you simple stats on your interactions and did some clever text analysis so you could make entries as regular sentences. (1) https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends
- robinhood 9y agoOh wow!!! Thanks so much for the link, it looks amazing.
- mattkevan 9y agoLooks really good! Am going to sign up and have a look later this evening. Just noticed the privacy policy link on the sign up form 404s. Links to https://app.monicahq.com/privacy https://app.monicahq.com/privacy instead of https://monicahq.com/privacy https://monicahq.com/privacy
- robinhood 9y agoThanks! Indeed, that's a bug, but I don't want to fix production now because so many people are using the app right now. I'll fix it tomorrow when HN won't care anymore :-D
- danielvf 9y agoMy uncle died suddenly this year. He was unbelievably caring - and not just to family - but to everyone he ever met. His funeral was jam packed with everyone from homeless people to executives of multi-billion dollar companies. I always thought that his ability to always have you, and whatever you had last talked about with him, on his mind at any moment was some kind of supernatural gift. I was surprised to find out at his funeral that he actually kept an excel spreadsheet of everyone he met and what they needed and were going through. He reviewed this constantly. It didn't lessen his genuine love for everyone, just let him be a little more super human.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoThis is exactly what Facebook should be. An augmented agent to help us be more helpful and empathetic to friends and family. I'm sorry for your loss. Your uncle sounds like a great human being.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoThis is what a lot of us who don't hate Zuck's guts actually do use FB for.
- kbenson 9y agoIt's not that I hate Zuckerberg that I find it hard to use Facebook, but that I trust them less than the other super-presences outs there (justified or not), and I dislike how it changes my perceptions of some of my friends. The constant posting of inane shit starts to look less like keeping in touch and more like an addiction to my eyes. I still like those people, and enjoy their company, but being constantly exposed to their posts feels like being in their living room as they crack open that 8 AM beer after waking up. It gets uncomfortable, but it's also not something I'm sure it's my place to butt into, since to this point it appears mostly harmless. It is the best tool to keep in contact we currently have though, so I do pop in every week or two to check on notifications. The times I go longer I end up missing events friends have put together and not notified in other ways about, so I try to remember to check in fairly regularly. I only hope they don't swing their attention towards those of us that shun the feed any time soon, and try to find a way to tweak our reward response for that as well (or at least in a more effective way. I'm sure they've put at least some attention to it).
- bayonetz 9y agoTangent: anybody have recommendations for a "CRM" for tracking your activity when you are job hunting? What stage you are at, people you've talked to at company, what version of resume they have, etc. Typically I've just duct taped one together with folders, spreadsheet, and Evernote. Always at the back of my mind that there could be something better perhaps. Normal CRMs seem to general and complicated from my limited perusing. Someone should make this. I'd pay for it!
- hdhzy 9y agoThis looks very polished. If only every MVP had such a good UX/design. Personally my calendar with contact notes work pretty well so I won't be using Monica but it was a pleasure trying it out.
- francis-io 9y agoSomething self hosted, but with integrations with gmail would be very useful for me (and something I would donate too). Push/pull from google calendar, push/pull emails from a contact, grouping people, sending unique emails to each member of a group. That kind of thing.
- zeronight 9y agoIts on Github and is easy to selfhost. And yes I agree, adding "import from FB would be awesome"
- dsschnau 9y agoThe privacy policy page is a 404: https://app.monicahq.com/privacy https://app.monicahq.com/privacy Is this a thing you pay for as a user or is this a thing like fb where user data is sold?
- robinhood 9y agoYeah I'll fix the link as soon as I can push to prod without interrupting the traffic thanks to being 2nd on HN today. None of this. You don't pay for a user, and I don't sell data to anyone. I'll introduce paying features later this year, but I have no idea which ones, and it WONT be about limiting the number of contacts. Also, I'm like all people on HN, I hate the notion of selling data WITH A PASSION.
- beager 9y agoGreat privacy policy but it's not linked properly from your signup page: https://monicahq.com/privacy https://monicahq.com/privacy Excited to try this, it's a Thing I've been wanting to have for quite some time now. Hope you won't mind the occasional feedback.
- robinhood 9y agoThanks. Well... I WANT FEEDBACK. The more feedback, the better, so please, please, send me emails about what you want to see in the product.
- thomyorkie 9y ago> Just hanged out. Just FYI, this isn't typical usage. People say hung instead of hanged in this instance.
- jzymbaluk 9y agoTypically the word "hanged" is used in the context of an execution ie "she was hanged from the gallows for her crimes"
- brightball 9y agoNeed to get that privacy policy link working. Love the idea of the project and it's definitely something I struggle with (especially when I get wrapped up in thinking about project problems) but when you have a "Try" link to enter a lot of personal information your Privacy Policy link needs to be explicitly clear.
- robinhood 9y agoI understand. The fix is ready, but I don't want to push it to production as I have a lot of users logged in right now thanks to HN. I'll do it as soon as the traffic drops.
- wsinks 9y agoIt appears that facebook sign in doesn't work and gives me this error: http://imgur.com/a/R0C9E http://imgur.com/a/R0C9E
- robinhood 9y agoThanks for noticing, and, indeed. I broke this last week - sorry about the inconvenience. Can't fix it today anyway, way too many people trying out the site, I don't want to touch production right now :-D
- wsinks 9y agoJust reporting - I understand how things go when you're one person. Interesting idea, but I would benefit so much from auto import. I don't think I've missed it.. Thanks for promoting your stuff!
- CitizenKane 9y agoThank you so much for this! It's something that's been kicking around in the back of my head for ages, but it was never a big enough priority for me to tackle. I'll definitely be checking it out!
- vladletter 9y agoSeriously...
- vivekahuja 9y agoThis is great! Just signed up and poked around. FWIW, right now I just use a combination of Evernote and a Trello board to keep track of personal tasks and projects; I could see a "PRM" tool like this supplanting or complementing those other tools. I hope you keep building. Feel free to reach out if you want some user feedback in a few weeks.
- robinhood 9y agoI will definitely keep building, especially since I see how much interest there is for a tool like this. Feel free to signup to the newsletter (that I actually never sent), I'll post updates on it regularly.
- xchaotic 9y agoIt looks like you're using monotonically increasing numbers for people, I couldn't exploit it straight away, looks like users have added around 900 people so far.
- robinhood 9y agoWhat's wrong with that? It's just a counter :-D
- DonCarlitos 9y agoGreat idea. Good luck. I did notice a few grammatical and spelling errors on the homepage. Easily corrected. And, the content reads like a non-English speaker wrote it. Also easily remedied. The initial page needs to reflect the creativity of the idea and the professional nature of the developers. I could help, as could many others...
- robinhood 9y agoIndeed :-D Non native speaker here, hence the errors probably. Good thing: it's all open source, and all on GitHub, so... :-D https://github.com/monicahq https://github.com/monicahq
- rocktronica 9y agoThis looks great, and I see the utility of it. Really, honestly, well done. May I ask what made you settle on the name "Monica" instead of something more gender-neutral?
- gyrgtyn 9y agoI have some org-mode files that kind of do this. I never open them or my agenda anymore, so they don't help, but they're there. I guess I need to hook org-mode to twilio or something?
- guest 9y agoI use Lewinsky to manage my favorites on www. p o r n h u b .com
- dflock 9y ago"Here are everything you can do with Monica" -> "Here is everything you can do with Monica"
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- latortuga 9y agoIs there a way to mark someone as being related to me (e.g. Significant Other == me)? Also, related, could Significant Others be set as "People" as well? Thanks for this, I see myself using it quite a lot.
- robinhood 9y agoOh! Well... good point. There is no such things at the moment. What you want seems to be relationships between you and the contact, or between contacts?
- hughes 9y agoHope you don't have any friends or family older than 50! Entering birthdates prior to 01/01/1967 is not allowed.
- robinhood 9y agoYep. So sorry about that, but a fix is ready to be shipped for that, but I don't want to interrupt the prod right now, way too much traffic from HN :-D
- TACIXAT 9y agoGreat work! I had a similar idea and built https://socialite.ooo https://socialite.ooo. It's been a bit neglected as I was finishing up grad school. It has a heavy focus on events and locations to tie everything together.
- JCharante 9y agoI don't see how this is anything more than a wiki with a really nice skin.
- robinhood 9y agoWiki = most web apps = interface to a database. So in a sense, it's all the same, just another way to look at it. So,no, it's not really different. Except perhaps that a wiki doesn't send you emails for reminders?
- ganessh 9y agoPrivacy page returns 400 :(
- voidmain0001 9y agoYou spoke about how to monetize Monica. Based on the number of comments requesting a mobile app, perhaps that's the launch point. I would use Monica's browser interface for bulk data entry, but I would use Monica on a mobile for push reminders since that's how I get my reminders/appointments now via Google Calendar. So, keep the browser interface free, but charge for the mobile app.
- lohengramm 9y agoI would expect charging for storage. Let the user try whatever he wants for free -- both the mobile app and the website, but after some point, say one month of average usage, one faces a limited storage problem, solvable with an account upgrade.
- vxNsr 9y agoLove this! Definitely gonna be using it from now on! Adding a way to import contacts would be super cool, though I like the idea of slowly going through all my contacts and making sure data is current, etc (something I haven't done ever, since I first got my phone 10 years ago). Only thing I just noticed is that when I try to add a gift idea, it conks out, with a: "Whoops, looks like something went wrong." message. But I really like this and will be messing around with it!
- robinhood 9y agoDamn. Sorry for this error. I will check the log to see why this happened. About the contact import, yes it's high on the list :-D https://github.com/monicahq/monica/projects/1 https://github.com/monicahq/monica/projects/1
- inbetween 9y agoMaybe you should call it "PRO" - Personal Relationship Organizer :) Or "Monica PRO".
- eevilspock 9y agoWhy would I want trust even more personal data to a web service? Why couldn't this be an app on my phone that synced securely with other instances of the app on my other devices?
- robinhood 9y agoYou don't need to trust me. You can host it yourself locally if you want, it's open source. https://github.com/monicahq https://github.com/monicahq
- lsjroberts 9y agoLooks great and useful! One small UX issue I've just hit - I missed the "edit" button in the "Personal Information" box when viewing a contact for a few moments. Kept trying to click the "Birthdate is not set" etc text.
- lsjroberts 9y agoOh also, there are >16000 countries in the select box on the edit person page.
- veritas3241 9y agoThis makes me so incredibly happy. I've wanted something like this for a long time but it was never important enough to make happen beyond some janky spreadsheets. I'll definitely keep using it and contributing. Nice work!
- robinhood 9y agoThanks a lot for your comment :-D If you do use it, let me know what you dislike so we can improve the product.
- akanoxx 9y agoOh man, I really need this hahahah :)
- gdfer 9y agoI find it interesting that people use the need for a CRM like this to make two opposing arguments: 1) If you need something like this to better communicate with friends/family, you must not genuinely care about them 2) If you use something like this to better communicate with friends/family, it shows that you actually do genuinely care about them The former assumes if you care enough you should be able to do it on your own without assistance from a CRM/app, the latter does not make that assumption and gives you kudos for using the tools available to make you better at caring for others
- danr4 9y agoAt first glance this looks awesome. I'll set it up tomorrow on my personal server. I saw in the github repo you've asked people not to try and make money using the code. If you really intend to build a sustainable business off this, I suggest you change the license to something stricter than MIT.
- robinhood 9y agoYeah, good point, somebody pointed out this on the github repository. Do you have any idea of which license I could use instead?
- danr4 9y agoAt first glance this looks awesome. I'll set it up tomorrow on my personal server. I saw in the github repo you've asked people not to try and make money using the code. If you really intend to build a sustainable business off this, I suggest you change the license to something stricter than MIT.
- tompetry 9y ago@robinhood it won't let me save birthdays before 1967? Need to add people born in the 50's and 40's :)
- nilved 9y agoedit: was wrong, see replies.
- veritas3241 9y agoFrom the github[0] > If you prefer to, you can simply clone the repository and set it up yourself on any hosting provider, for free. I'm just asking that you don't try to make money out of it yourself. [0] https://github.com/monicahq/monica https://github.com/monicahq/monica
- elliottcarlson 9y agoMIT might be the wrong license to have on this then
- nilved 9y agoThanks for bringing that to my attention! That's fantastic and I think they should put more focus on this option on the homepage.
- jciochon 9y agoYep, if this data isn't stored on my machine then I won't be going anywhere near this. You're basically asking me to post not only my own, very personal information, but now all of my friends and family?? No thanks.
- saamm 9y agoI've been using Tinyblu [0] for this, which seems to be simpler/have fewer features. 0: https://tinyblu.com/ https://tinyblu.com/
- phantomlord 9y agoI would be very much interested in developing an Android app for this one having developed a couple of them myself. Are you interested in tag teaming?
- robinhood 9y agoWhile I don't know what tag teaming is, I would need to develop an API first and foremost to let you actually do that. I'm planning to create an API in the coming weeks.
- sinistersnare 9y agoWhy a web-app instead of a local application? Why does this need to be connected to the internet, when it doesnt interact with anything? Is it because you want to be able to sync to other devices, such as a phone app in the future?
- dabernathy89 9y agothis is a strange question. most users of a tool like this would expect it to be available from different computers and devices, like virtually any other website they need to create an account for. and you'd certainly want this data backed up.
- robinhood 9y agoBecause I just know web stuff. I did some .net like 15 years ago, but now I just know PHP and HTML, basically. Moreover, I'd love to create an app too, which would require an API, which requires to be available online.
- tajen 9y agoUse electron. It's what powers Slack for desktop: Youbuild an HTML app and it shows in a desktop window.
- lucb1e 9y agoWell I'm glad this isn't .NET, or almost as bad, Electron. I think web is a fine choice, provided it's open source and self-hostable for those who care.
- UweSchmidt 9y agoWhat's wrong with .NET? Even if you don't like programming with it you'd get a native application.
- lucb1e 9y agoThat I don't use Microsoft Windows.
- radarsat1 9y agoI love this. I want to stick it on an RPi and keep it on at all times.
- robinhood 9y agoIf you do find yourself in a position where you do need to do specific things related to Rpi in order to make this work, feel free to submit a pull request with instructions, so others can also install it as well. https://github.com/monicahq/monica https://github.com/monicahq/monica
- johnchristopher 9y agoPro-tip: put your link to the newsletter, github and your twitter profile in the header of your site :). Clearly states if it's open source, self hostable or a service.
- robinhood 9y agoExcellent point. Thanks, I can see how that will help. I'll update the site.
- agentgt 9y agoThe biggest problem I have with any productivity, life improvement tools, todo lists, etc is not the tools themselves but getting past the apathy and lethargy of not using said tools. That is I just can't create good habits or care enough to use them even though I know I could really improve my life if I did. I would imagine its sort of like exercising (albeit I actually do do that). Some never do it, some do it no matter what but the mass majority get on and off the wagon. We do it for a short post New Years'-eve-like period and then just eventually stop. I need some way to force good habits like a drug (and yes I know about James Clear who blogs about this).
- tajen 9y agoSorry to be that guy, but isn't there a huge legal issue? In France, the CNIL requires a declaration of any file, especially if you keep information about people in it, whether it's a spreadsheet or in good old punch cards. Such files can only be maintained for specific purpose; notably keeping tabs on what people want or their secrets can be used for bribes and leverage. An Excel file on your computer won't get you arrested because of leniency, but if we start issuing such software, the defense is less solid than for Torrent software. i.e. What happens if a database is leaked?
- tombot 9y agoI 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 <title> 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 and put the second name in. Hope you can find a way to add Paid features you keep this going over the long term.
- robinhood 9y agoThanks a lot! Excellent idea about the <title> tab. I've created an issue about it (https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/45 https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/45). For the other stuff, it was already on the pipeline. Thanks :-D
- chenster 9y agoThe real question is now - would you pay for this?
- robinhood 9y agoThe title page of a person now displays the name of the person you are looking at.
- gumby 9y agoBTW I use BusyContacts for this on my Mac.
- vinothgopi 9y agoHow about an option to organize family as a family tree? That's something I'm looking for currently.
- vslira 9y agoI've looking for something like this for years! Thanks!
- robinhood 9y agoYou are welcome. Feel free to tell me how we can improve the product.
- theknarf 9y agoTried to signup with facebook and got the error: "The redirect_uri URL must be absolute"
- i-machine-learn 9y agoI see that you have changed the tagline to "your social memory" due to feedback from users. However, the language is really unclear and grammatically incorrect - it's a sentence fragment. Some possible solutions: * Introduce a verb "Build your social memory" * Introduce Monica "Your social memory, now handled by your digital assistant Monica" * Some combo of the above "Build your social memory through your digital assistant Monica" I'd also recommend separate each question on separate line and left align them for readability. I'd iterate on this language as it's the most important content on your page since it's the first thing user's see. You might also want to pull some of the content that is below the fold to this section. Great idea!
- pkulak 9y agoReally great idea. So, the first thing I did was add my wife, because that just seemed like the right place to start. But then I got into this situation where I was adding myself as the significant other. Is this intended? Is there any concept of "me"?
- lucb1e 9y agoI half-assume, without looking at the application beyond the front page (I'm still going to), that you're kind of expected to know what your wife has been up to. It might not be a common use-case to select "Me" in the significant other field.
- pkulak 9y agoIf this thing assumes that I don't need help remembering that stuff, then it has severely overestimated me!
- rl3 9y ago>Here are everything you can do with Monica >Manage significant others I really hope the writers of Silicon Valley are taking notes right now.
- confounded 9y agoThis looks superb, thank you for building a great product with a non-hostile privacy policy. Before trusting my data/time with something, I generally like to understand the motivations of the creators. Do you intend to run this as a profit making business, or just as an open source project? Do you have thoughts/opinions on monetization? How do you intend to continue to develop it in the medium/long term?
- robinhood 9y agoI intend to run this as a profit making business on the long run. How, I don't know yet. I don't like the idea of restricting the number of contacts you can have. Probably a paid plan for advanced features. I'm on this application for the long run - and this is also one of the reasons I've open sourced it: if I lose interest, the community will be in charge of developing it further. The current license permits it.
- a13n 9y agoI have been looking for this / thinking about building this for YEARS. I tried to sign up but got some kind of FB "redirect uri" error.
- zuck9 9y agoMe too. The redirect_uri URL must be absolute
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- jvln 9y agoThanks for saving my time. I planned to write one for my self this year. Is it open source?
- bbaumgar 9y agoYes, link [1] is in the footer of the homepage. [1] https://github.com/monicahq/monica https://github.com/monicahq/monica
- gklitt 9y agoIf you're more into the terminal, a coworker of mine made a nifty tool that does similar things but works with Markdown files and a CLI. For example: $ friends add activity Got lunch with Grace and George. https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends
- nojvek 9y ago> Dear app developers: stop naming your personal assistants after women. Stop thinking women’s jobs is to help you out. It’s not. > Stop writing copy like “Here is everything you can do with Monica” and “I’ve created Monica to help these people”. From a Monica I follow on twitter.
- shostack 9y agoInteresting to note that a scheduling assistant I've been testing (X.ai) offers both an Amy and an Andrew assistant. I've definitely made a conscious decision to use Andrew because of potential negative reactions to using Amy. It does make me wonder about the choice of Apple and Amazon to use female names.
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- will_pseudonym 9y agoThank you for building this. I have been wanting to build something like this for myself for some time. I'll check it out and see what I like for sure!
- weisser 9y agoReally lovely. I signed up and will use this as soon as there is an ability to import Google/email contacts.
- neil1 9y agoIt would be great if you could add city as a form field and allow searching by city. I'd love to pay for this/contribute as well. I was just about to build something similar (but less pretty)
- robinhood 9y ago404 comments. I'm doomed.
- patrickgordon 9y agoI am in the process (Slowly) of making something similar https://simplerm.co https://simplerm.co Monica looks way more feature complete though! Nice work.
- shostack 9y agoAn app might be asking a lot, but a responsive design to allow mobile usage would be a big help. Or at least something that could hook into IFTTT or something so I can easily add info on the go via email, twitter, or something. For example, let's say I'm at a party and meet some people I want to log. Mobile input is really key there because I may have been drinking and won't remember that info in the next 15 minutes.
- progrocks9 9y agoLove it. This seems to be the answer to a question that Facebook forgot completely. To help you improve your social life with the people you really care about. Not just distract you with irrelevant information. Keep it up!
- robinhood 9y agoThanks a lot for the kind words.
- chrismorgan 9y agoBug report: https://app.monicahq.com/register https://app.monicahq.com/register links to /privacy which is a 404 because of the subdomain.
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- hayden592 9y agoI really like this and we actually thinking about trying a CRM earlier today. Hopefully, I can find sometime to contribute. The ability to import contacts would be super useful. I might be able to get to it this weekend who knows...
- a1371 9y agoGreat work yo! One thing: the privacy link on your sign up page is broken. You probably want to fix this as soon as possible. Isn't it odd nobody mentioned that?
- jszymborski 9y agoThis is fantastic (and I'm not just saying that because it's based out of Montreal). I don't realistically see myself ever using an instance of this that isn't self-hosted on a server I physically own, but there is obviously quite a bit of fair-will expressed in the no-non-sense Privacy Policy which I greatly respect.
- q1t 9y agoCan I specify myself as a SO for other person in my list? :)
- angry_octet 9y agoYet another cloud based system for insecurely storing very personal data that I won't ever be using.
- vSanjo 9y agoInsecurely?
- angry_octet 9y agoYou store your data on their server. It has logins and passwords to control whether someone talking to their server over the internet should have access to your data. So yeah, massively insecure.
- vultour 9y agoIt says open-source in the first half of the title.
- angry_octet 9y agoOpen source won't keep your data confidential by itself. Are they going to port it to run offline, or exclusively sync via encrypted blobs? It's not the technology, it's the philosophy.
- vultour 9y agoMy point was that you have the code so you can host it yourself.
- 5_minutes 9y agoI've been looking for this for a long while!
- danellis 9y agoIt was recently pointed out by a prominent member of the community that developers should stop naming personal assistants after women, because it's not a woman's job to help you out. Does the same apply to this? Should the author change it to a more neutral name?
- disqk 9y agoThis could also be named "Gary", like Gary Walsh (character) from the TV series Veep. Though it also has to carry tampons and tissues ;) Not that Monica's not a good name, obvious throwback to a certain character on TV from the late 90's. (or maybe I'm watching too much TV and experiencing hammer-nail syndrome...)
- thecrazyone 9y agoThis (monica) is so manual that I signed up and got put off. I don't feel the tool giving me a leverage. It increases my effort. I want more value for same effort that I already put in (or better, for lesser effort). Case in point, 1) offer to import my contacts from my phone, email, FB, linkedin, etc. I'm not typing that sh*t in. 2) Pull call logs from my phone, I'm not manually entering that either. Are you crazy? 3) Birthdays from FB 4) activities from other apps. Like movie together from bookmyshow (a popular app where I live), etc
- dev_256 9y agoLink to Privacy Policy from login page is broken https://app.monicahq.com/privacy https://app.monicahq.com/privacy
- sebiol 9y agoCorrect url: https://monicahq.com/privacy https://monicahq.com/privacy
- darylteo 9y ago"You know good and well that's not what they're saying." http://imgur.com/ffRSyJ0 http://imgur.com/ffRSyJ0 Couldn't help myself. I'm sorry.
- wikibob 9y agoLooks so much like JIRA that I had to check it wasn’t an Atlassian side project. Who did the visual design?
- alexintosh 9y agoI like the idea, it's supped buggy tho. I've been trying this for less then 30 minutes and I already landed to different error page. Right in this moment I'm stuck into the "Whoops, looks like something went wrong." page while trying to access /dashboard
- capex 9y agoGreat idea, but I would've much preferred a mobile app for this, which could sync my contacts automatically, log my calls to each contact and let me enter notes. The desktop app seems good but seems like a lot of work for the user.
- robinhood 9y agoI totally agree. I'll get there :-D
- tripu 9y ago“You know all those birthdays you forget? And when you last called your grandmother? When you last had coffee with that ex-colleague? Who did you lend that book to again?” I solve all these (first-world) problems easily with Remember The Milk [ https://www.rememberthemilk.com/ https://www.rememberthemilk.com/ ] — an underestimated tool, IMHO, to which I am loyal. The four examples above are one-liners in RTM: Congratulate Alice on her birthday ^23 Nov *yearly #birthday Call grandma ^tom *monthly Coffee w/ Bob? ^1 Jul *monthly #colleague #coffee Get “War and Peace” back from Charlie ^in a month Accounts are free; “pro” gives you just a few non-essential goodies (colours, Outlook sync, reminders on your phone, etc).
- kaushalmodi 9y agoI have a similar comment, just using Todoist instead.. I switched from RTM Pro to Todoist Premium few months back.
- bjt2n3904 9y agoHoly 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.
- jommi1 9y agoThis seems useful for Tinder (ha ha)
- tshanmu 9y ago"Signing up signifies you’ve read and agree to our Privacy Policy." https://app.monicahq.com/privacy https://app.monicahq.com/privacy is 404 :)
- schemathings 9y agoJust signed up to take a look. If you're gonna have gifts as a category, maybe hook up to https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/search https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/search ??
- TimJRobinson 9y agoThis 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.
- robinhood 9y agoMy pleasure. Glad you like it :-D
- r0muald 9y agoI'm surprised no one has mentioned friends https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends a command line tool that does a lot of what Monica aims to do. A Ruby gem that will be "friendly" only to laptop users, but with a wide community and continued development.
- psteinweber 9y agoLove it! Feature requests and ideas are obviously not scarce today - I too have some ideas after playing with it for a bit: - It would be great if there would be a place to set up a new activity that includes multiple people. So entering a birthday party with 15 people is a bit more practical than it is now. I first thought that's what the journal is about, but it doesn't seem have this feature (yet?). Like it is now, the journal seems not very useful at all to be honest. - I'd love to set up relationships (SO, children, and more) between existing/full contacts, rather than the child and SO field setting up an "elaborate note". - Do the notifications reach me in any way? Would be awesome to check a box if I want a reminder via email or browser notification Even without those features I can see myself using this. Thanks!
- robinhood 9y agoThanks a lot for your comment! I love all your ideas you've mentioned there. I've created an issue about it: https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/118 https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/118 . About the notifications, they all come by email at the moment. I'd love to have a Telegram integration too.
- webjames 9y agoHey robinhood - Are you considering packaging this up as a standalone iphone app?
- robinhood 9y agoYes! This is a second step though - the first one is to create the APIs first.
- grimmdude 9y agoAm I the only one who thinks Ja Rule's line in The Fast and the Furious: "Monicaaaaaaa!"
- dplgk 9y agoI look forward to trying this out. This idea has been on my mind for a few years now. Never built it of course :)
- robinhood 9y agoMe too, until now :-D
- dplgk 9y agoHere's a main feature I was looking for. I think I can solve it via "Notes" on a person but I'd love it has a main feature. I think it's similar to the SO and Children boxes. It would be great to be able to add friends of a contact... so people that you've met once or twice (at your friend Steve's birthday party, for example), you don't know them enough to add as contact but you want to remember their name and where they work, etc. And it's essential that they are somehow connected to the person you know so you can look them up easily next time you go to Steve's party.
- robinhood 9y agoThat's a great idea Thanks! https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/117 https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/117
- supersan 9y agoDo you have any plans on making a mobile app? Reminders are most useful on mobile only.
- moccachino 9y agoI saw this the other day and it looks like something I need! But I have been periodically checking it since to see if a crucial (for me) feature is added. Which is: Do you have plans to add the ability to put "real" people as SOs or children? I recently found your roadmap on Github and didn't see it there. In any case this is super cool, thanks for building it and sharing it :)