Do you have a demo or some more insightful screenshots of what the app is? Even if I wanted to sign up to the site, I'd have to fill in a bunch of stuff to actually have a meaningful overview of the UI.
I appreciate you have two-way contact syncing with Google Contacts which is a big thing that's lacking in monica.
I also appreciate the Chrome Extension you mentioned. Is there deeper integration there, eg. do you allow me to back up / view data on my facebook friends through Dex?
What I looked for in Monica, and simply did not find, was a true single-source-of-truth for all my contact interactions, be those on Facebook, Twitter, Discord, SMS, Hangouts …. It's less a matter of wanting to keep in touch with people (I love being able to set reminders for specific things, but lacking a good UI I just end up making those in Google Calendar), and more a matter of being able to quickly find things I may have discussed with someone.
For example I talk to my girlfriend through all three of Messenger, Discord and SMS, and I'd like to be able to have a single history to sift through should I look for something she told me (groceries to get, an address / door code to remember, a photo she sent …).
Again, to me the selling point of these kinds of personal-service websites are to offload parts of my brain to software that is more efficient at the task. Notion does a great job being a generic note-keeping / database app. Calendar does a great job at helping me remember everything time-bound events. A personal CRM should do a great job at helping me remember everything there is to remember about another person / a relationship with that person.
Re: demo / screenshots, I totally get this. Honestly the landing page hasn't been a huge concern, but I'll take your feedback that you actually want to see the feedback first; we'll make changes.
The Chrome Extension unfortunately doesn't do a deeper integration -- we're looking into how to make this happen! You're absolutely right that a personal CRM needs to be a single source of truth -- the hard part is getting data in the actual product!
Do you consider messaging history as mentioned to be in scope? I'd love to be able to quickly refer to emails, convos etc. And the best CRMs do let you keep track of people based on conversations.
I get you that getting the data in is difficult though. A lot of API work. This is one thing where if you were open source and had a plugin / provider API people could contribute. I certainly would.
Emails is definitely a straightforward thing to do. SMS is also pretty possible. For really interesting use0cases like Messenger, the difficulty becomes more of collecting and storing user permissions. I recently came tooling like https://github.com/Schmavery/facebook-chat-api
I appreciate you have two-way contact syncing with Google Contacts which is a big thing that's lacking in monica.
I also appreciate the Chrome Extension you mentioned. Is there deeper integration there, eg. do you allow me to back up / view data on my facebook friends through Dex?
What I looked for in Monica, and simply did not find, was a true single-source-of-truth for all my contact interactions, be those on Facebook, Twitter, Discord, SMS, Hangouts …. It's less a matter of wanting to keep in touch with people (I love being able to set reminders for specific things, but lacking a good UI I just end up making those in Google Calendar), and more a matter of being able to quickly find things I may have discussed with someone.
For example I talk to my girlfriend through all three of Messenger, Discord and SMS, and I'd like to be able to have a single history to sift through should I look for something she told me (groceries to get, an address / door code to remember, a photo she sent …).
Again, to me the selling point of these kinds of personal-service websites are to offload parts of my brain to software that is more efficient at the task. Notion does a great job being a generic note-keeping / database app. Calendar does a great job at helping me remember everything time-bound events. A personal CRM should do a great job at helping me remember everything there is to remember about another person / a relationship with that person.