Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThe moment you or your friends have kids, there are a lot of infrequent interactions with people and the names (and ages) really matter. I guess the killing feature for me would be remembering names of parents if my kids schoolmates. You end up calling people "the mother of $KID" for KID in kids in classOf($my_kids).
Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife, yet to be released. I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)
While i love self hosted products, am i the only one often disappointed by the backend tooling _behind_ the self hosted app? This is no fault of the app devs (Monica in this case), because it just doesn't feel like there are many (any?) good self hosting backends. Namely data storage. Example, to run Monica locally you have to run a MySQL server. This seems .. a lot, for the average user. It also exposes hardening issues, backup concerns, upgrades…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 673
- Total comments
- 271
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-05 | Monica – Open Source Personal CRM | jpdus | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-12-21 | Monica: Open-source personal CRMFirst breakout · Best thread | jandeboevrie | 372 | 129 |
| 2021-04-18 | Show HN: Monica Self Hosted Personal CRM | crecker | 9 | 5 |
| 2021-05-03 | Monica: Personal CRM Done Right | b5 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-11-14 | Monica: Open-source personal relationship managerHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | taubek | 286 | 137 |
| 2026-03-05 | Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones | rickcarlino | 1 | 0 |