Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

Re:Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your frie... by wegs2 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:27PM (#25272921)

I'd totally pay for something like this, but not $90/year. I'd pay $90 per year for an all-in-one-service to replace Google, but with open source and privacy.

It seems like a tough business model, to try to sell a one-off utility like this. Over a 50 year lifetime, that's $4,500.

It feels like in the eighties, I'd pay $20 (which is $40 in today's dollars) for a shareware tool, and it'd do this for the rest of my life (or until my 80286 running DOS became obsolete, whichever came first).

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Re:Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your frie... by chrysoprace on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:35PM (#25272971)

Luckily it's AGPL 3.0 licensed, so you can happily host it yourself, potentially at a much lower cost.

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Re:Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your frie... by j3th9n on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @07:29AM (#25275746)

I could host it for you for €49/year: joostwebhost.nl . You'll get email with it too, all running on open source software. :-) I mainly focus on WordPress hosting now, but I will add this to my services too.

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Re:Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your frie... by kristianp on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:48PM (#25273043)

There's always people who aren't prepared to pay the asking price. Maybe they should charge more, especially if it means there's a sustainable business that isn't going to get sold and shut down.

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Re:Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your frie... by wegs2 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:01PM (#25318311)

Profit = number of users x number of sales

(Minus costs, which are low for a web service)

There's a point that maximizes profit, and my point was that $4,500 might be a bit beyond that for a personal CRM.

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Re:Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your frie... by dyeje on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:57AM (#25273653)

You can host it yourself for free.

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