Monica

Founder here. Thanks for posting this small project of mine to Product hunt. I'm actually surprised by the reaction of the community. I built this tool for me primarily as I struggled to keep track of the lives my loved ones, especially since I live abroad and far away from my friends and family. So far it helped me, especially for the reminders of the birthdays of my friends kids. I could have used an old fashioned calendar but well, as an amateur developer, you can't help but create yet another app. So I did, exactly a year ago. I've thought of giving up about a thousand times because I thought that it was useless - then I tried the product myself for real and as I saw some benefits, I continued working on it. I just posted that link on Hacker News yesterday for fun and the reaction has been amazing. People seem to need this which makes me super happy. The repository on GitHub also seems to gain quite some traction quickly. What can I say. Thank you all for giving me more motivation to move forward with this. I think the first steps are to solve the many many bugs the community has found (it's crazy to see how many bugs you have and you don't encounter when you are your only user), create an importer and build an API. Then, we'll see. Thanks for the upvote, and for trying the product. Regis

Like @rrhoover I was looking for a personal CRM and didn't find one. I also use Airtable as a personal CRM and it works well, but it's not built for personal relationships like @bentossell said. I am going to try and see if it works for my needs or not. Right now, the lack of mobile app might become a problem in the future if i use it a lot.

When we are in 2017 and need CRM to maintain relationships with our loved ones. 😶

@djaiss love this idea. I've been complaining to my co-founders for years that there isn't a P(ersonal)RM app. Glad to see someone put in the effort to build one. One of the things I've always thought about is how helpful facebook (it's data, at least) could be in helping here - Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. as well. I'm terrified to ask some of my friends when their birthday is, because, I should know by now... Have you thought about making some of the logging/input more automatic? My worry is, if I can't prioritize the little things for my Friends, can I expect myself to worry about inputting details for everyone? Would love to hear your thoughts here

This reminds me of a guy that Malcom Gladwell spoke about in his book "The Tipping Point", who handled all of his contacts the old school way. I've been looking for a tool like this for a long time -- and I'm aware it's hard to build (as all CRMs are, because you usually have your individual style of managing relationships). I just wish I could sync the contacts from my phone / emails (Outlook) / Facebook friends with Monica, so I didn't have to type them in manually. And yes, at some point be able to add them immediately from texts, calls etc.

Product looks VERY nice and potentially a killer app for crazybusy™ people. I signed up and started using it but I don't understand how to edit an existing contact 😅 PS: any plan on monetizing it?

I've been looking for something like this for a while...have considered hacking something together myself but never found the time. Really cool that it's open source to leverage the community for improvements. Can't wait to try it!