Founder of Monica and Chandler here. It's so easy that the rewrite (aka Chandler) has taken Alexis and me 11 months so far, as a side project, and working most

Founder of Monica and Chandler here. It's so easy that the rewrite (aka Chandler) has taken Alexis and me 11 months so far, as a side project, and working most nights and weekends (check the number of commits). I know that Monica appears to be easy, and Chandler also, but it's not easy. Making a clone for yourself is easier, although not that easy if you want to replicate all the features. Making a clone for an entire community, which hosts Monica in tens of different configurations, means having a robust CI, a pipeline to package and deploy Docker images, a solid API, and so on and so on. I thought building a project like Monica was easy at first, but 6 years in, I can confidently say: it's really not.