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| ====== Monica (HQ? Chandler?) ====== | ====== Monica (HQ? Chandler?) ====== |
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| [[https://www.monicahq.com/|Monica]] (MonicaHQ?) is a personal relationship manager (PRM) (think CRM but for personal life) that claims to solve several things with managing interpersonal relationships for introverts and general people. It's [[https://github.com/monicahq/monica|open-source]]. Apparently, about 1400 people are paying something like $9/month or $90/year for their "paid service", which really seems to be a patreon-style development funnel. | [[https://www.monicahq.com/|Monica]] (MonicaHQ?) is a personal relationship manager (PRM) (think CRM but for personal life) that claims to solve several things with managing interpersonal relationships for introverts and general people. It's [[https://github.com/monicahq/monica|open-source]]. Apparently, about 1400 people are paying something like $9/month or $90/year for their "paid service", which really seems to be a patreon-style development funnel. Similarly, there are maybe 60 patreon members? |
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| It's a PHP web app, and it can be self-hosted. However, self-hosting requires at-minimum a database and some way to send mail if you want full functionality, which seems non-ideal. | It's a PHP web app, and it can be self-hosted. However, self-hosting requires at-minimum a database and some way to send mail if you want full functionality, which seems non-ideal. |
| Generally, I feel a lot of confusion with this app/service. | Generally, I feel a lot of confusion with this app/service. |
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| See [[https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/6626|issue #6626]] also. | See [[https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/6626|issue #6626]], and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1buq3uw/alternative_prm_to_monica/|a reddit thread]] on alternatives. [[https://clay.earth/|Clay]] might be better, if pricey? It also doesn't seem like this company has a long duration of existence. There's also an [[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/personal-crm-software-uphabit-dex-google-spreadsheets/601531/|article from The Atlantic]] on Clay and its companion PRMs. |
