What does HackerNews think of monica?
Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and business relationships.
The entire "Github doesn't give back" argument is wrong. For "free", Github lets me host our code, run thousands and thousands of hours of free CI (and we are aggressively using it), host releases and docker images, and lets us manage thousands of issues. Also, Copilot is free when you are eligible to it, so we are fortunate enough to not have to pay for it as well.
Yes, they monetize our attention and train Copilot with the code, but the only argument which can't be used against this company is that they don't give back.
Dex is the YC company, https://getdex.com/about/
Monica is the open source tool, https://github.com/monicahq/monica
EDIT: Yeah, I saw it here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270001).
"You may call it cheating but considering my poor memory, I call it caring."
With regards to bookmarks.
* Websites you regularly read can stay as pinned tabs. If that costs too much RAM, bookmark them.
* Websites you read irregularly, can be put in bookmarks.
* Websites you'd only read once can be put in some kind of logging application such as an RSS reader, OneTab, etc.
I also believe something like Monica [1] can help with some issues. For example, say you're saving up items to buy as a present for your beloved one. With Monica, you could just link these in the CRM to the specific person, organized, and you also get to see what they got from you in other events. In that sense, I suppose "Deal with" is rather broad.
Open source developers don't have many ways to be recognized for their work. One of these marks of recognition is the number of stars of their repositories. It’s a vanity metric, yes, definitely – but it’s somehow important to represent if this hard work has an impact or not.
This is why I’ve built a simple system to monitor repositories on GitHub and warn me by email when my repositories reach certain milestones [2]. After a few weeks of dog fooding my own system, I think it’s ready for public use. It’s free, there is no tracking whatsoever and I just hope other GitHub users will find it useful.
Oh, and it’s open source and released as MIT.
[1]: https://github.com/monicahq/monica [2]: https://github.com/djaiss/egonotifier/blob/master/app/Helper...
> If you prefer to, you can simply clone the repository and set it up yourself on any hosting provider, for free. I'm just asking that you don't try to make money out of it yourself.