Ben Tossell

Monica - Open-source CRM to keep track of your friends and family

Monica is an open-source personal CRM - or Personal Relationship Management system.

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Marc Olivier Lapierre
Awesome! I've been looking for something like this for a while. Hoping for a mobile app somewhere down the line :)
Régis
@marclap first things first: an API. Then, mobile app :-D
Joshua Pinter
@djaiss @marclap In the meantime, take a look at www.ntwrkapp.com for a simple iOS and Android app for this. And once Régis gets his API built, I'll absolutely tie into it.
Alfred Beckman
Great idea! Tried it for a few minutes and this is what I'm missing top of the bat: 1. Possibility to invite my wife so that we can keep track of these things together. 2. Possibility to add a relationship between me and a contact (like "My daughters friend Leia's father Anakin").
Régis
@salmiak that makes total sense. 1 is something we need to investigate, 2 is posted here https://github.com/monicahq/moni... :-D
David Senate
Love this product, lacks a function to upload contacts as .vcard
Régis
@david_senate I agree. It'll come.
Luiz Cent
This looks great @djaiss, I am always scared to use these tools because what happens when they are no longer updated/worked on? I used to have a Nimble account with thousands of relationships and notes and Jon from Nimble decided to delete accounts with no notice. At least with my spreadsheet I own it.
Régis
@luizcent well. The tool is open source and you can install it on your own server - so in any case, you can still host it forever and you will be in control. I plan myself to work a long time on it and the community is already healthy with dozens of contributors and hundreds of pull requests. So, while I don't know the future, there is a good chance that this tool is not going to go away. Moreover, you can export your data anytime you want and import it on your own instance.
Luiz Cent
@djaiss you the man. I'll start using this soon. Are there any tutorials for installing it on my own server? Thanks!
abasa aka pfazer
monica...I see what you did there Regis!
Jordan Hosmer
This is awesome - gotta try it out! I've been hacking together a mix of spreadsheet, twilio, and sendgrid. (similar to botwick https://www.producthunt.com/post...)
Régis
@jordanhosmer that's interesting. I'd love to know more about your setup.
Larsen Pedersen
I really like the idea of this, but I miss the opportunity to make associations between different people. I've added my brother, his wife and their kids individually - and I would like to associate them. I know I can add children and significant others, but it would be nice to just pick from people that I've already added.
Régis
@larsenpedersen keep in mind that the product is still very young and this feature will come for sure 😀 https://github.com/monicahq/moni...
Larsen Pedersen
@djaiss I fully understand :) - I was just eager to add everybody and didn't know about the github :D
Moh
Nice work !! love it
Régis
@deen804 thanks so much!
Simon Hilton
Wow. Great idea. I have been trying to solve this problem for a while now. Best I could do was to email remind myself using a follow up service.
Dustin Daniels
I like the idea, but I would like to see it easier to add existing contacts into it. I like the idea that is independent of social networking, but if you would allow users to import from a .vcf or even .csv file. Most of us already have this data in FB or our contact list already. Seems overly burdensome adding this all by hand again. I see you are going to work on an importer, which is great. But for now, I can't upvote just yet. Mobile app would be a definite dealmaker for me, as I already get too many emails. Years ago I got rid of birthday reminder emails for just that reason.