Monica is an open-source web application to organize the interactions with your loved ones. I call it a PRM, or Personal Relationship Management. Think of it as a CRM (a popular tool used by sales teams in the corporate world) for your friends or family.
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
@jpvalery merci :-D It wasn't until yesterday where people really asked for it. Priority now will be to do an API to allow the mobile app to be created.
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.
@mrcalexandre@rrhoover@bentossell I agree that the lack of mobile app is an issue. This has been raised a lot on the massive Hacker News thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...). The first things I'm going to focus on are importing capabilities, then API, then mobile.
@marekdlugos yes, in 2017, when people are actually moving from one country to another really often, making it super hard to keep track of those friends in different countries, friends you care deeply about, but don't see every day, every month or even every year, but matters a lot nonetheless :-D This is my reality, but I can see how it might be criticized.
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