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Re:Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people y... by mike503 on Saturday June 04, 2016 @12:12AM (#11834869)
I actually have created many personal sites for different audiences and track it. Save their urls, pictures, and other relevant attributes (based on the audience)

This excited me until I saw it was so basic. Mine isn't a scalable solution currently and I would be surprised if people wanted to store the level of detail I do in the cloud. Seems more suitable for a self-hosted project.

Definitely needs the ability to add fields. And then make them searchable. And ideally peace of mind knowing its encrypted end to end, including image content. A hosted service would be a honeypot otherwise.

Re:Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people y... by Gys on Saturday June 04, 2016 @04:37AM (#11835537)
I would never use this without it having an export option.

I do not have to login or something. So how can I access the info from another device ?

Re:Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people y... by figgis on Saturday June 04, 2016 @04:54PM (#11837972)
Sign up.

"Can I download a backup of my humans database?

Yes! Just click "Settings" at the top and you'll be able to download a full backup of your humans."

It also works offline and sync when online again.

Re:Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people y... by imalex on Friday June 03, 2016 @02:42PM (#11832319)
I was just thinking about this yesterday! I went with https://app.simplenote.com instead. Your app probably won't be compelling until you add more specific features that beat a generic note-taking app.
Re:Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people y... by curuinor on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:38PM (#11833461)
I found that a cronjob did 80% of the job, actually: the pain point is not in remembering the things about them, it's remembering their existence.
Re:Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people y... by tedmiston on Saturday June 04, 2016 @02:19PM (#11837327)
> Robert Tables

> Database Engineer at Oracle

> [email protected]

Nice one. I'm surprised you let him into your database.

Re:Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people y... by throwaway2016a on Friday June 03, 2016 @04:26PM (#11833008)
Evernote Hello was pretty nice for this but it got discontinued.
Re:Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people y... by FourierTformed on Friday June 03, 2016 @02:06PM (#11832060)
Don't humans have faces?
Re:Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people y... by wckronholm on Friday June 03, 2016 @02:31PM (#11832239)
It's a neat idea, and yea, support for adding a photo would be nice.

Is there a way to do self hosting? There's no indication whatsoever about what happens to the data that users might enter, and many would see this as a privacy concern.

Is the source code available somewhere?