Monica

Monica

Open source personal CRM.

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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.
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Régis
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
Jp Valery
@djaiss bien joué 😄 is there a mobile app scheduled ?
Régis
@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.
Jon Wood
@djaiss Since it's open source (I just assume the API would be), I'm sure folks here would love to help! :)
Ben Rosenthal
@djaiss Looks very cool! Any chance you could modify/make something similar for professional relationships?
Alexandre Mouriec
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.
Ben Tossell
@mrcalexandre @rrhoover yeah being able to update on the go would be key!
Régis
@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.
Alex Hoopingarner
@mrcalexandre I have been using Contactually.com they are great! Not sure if that's what you are looking for.
Joshua Pinter
@mrcalexandre @rrhoover @bentossell Hey Alexandre, take a look at www.ntwrkapp.com if you want a mobile app for a similar thing. Sounds like Régis is still working on an API for this and when it's ready I'll definitely tie into it so you won't have to re-enter any data later on.
Marek Dlugos
When we are in 2017 and need CRM to maintain relationships with our loved ones. 😶
Régis
@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.
Marshall
@marekdlugos We don't need one, but it makes it easier. What's wrong with that?
Hal Gottfried
@djaiss been trying to fill my need for this for years !!