[HN Gopher] Show HN: Personal Data Management Dashboard
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       Show HN: Personal Data Management Dashboard
        
       Author : volmarg_reiso
       Score  : 80 points
       Date   : 2021-04-12 16:32 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | aftergibson wrote:
       | Uhh PMS?
       | 
       | Might want to consider other acronyms.
        
         | benatkin wrote:
         | There are plenty of three-letter acronyms that are used despite
         | being overloaded with something worse.
        
           | aftergibson wrote:
           | I never implied worse or bad. It's just a commonly used
           | acronym that's distracting from the message.
        
             | [deleted]
        
           | groby_b wrote:
           | Yes. There are also plenty of people who are OK with being
           | insensitive, or with offending half their userbase. And
           | that's their choice.
           | 
           | But at the same time, giving the author a heads-up that they
           | might inadvertently sort themselves in that group is, I
           | think, a kindness.
        
             | bachmeier wrote:
             | It's more along the lines of BOOGER or URINE than being
             | insensitive or offensive. Some names are good and some are
             | not. A name like that is not.
        
               | groby_b wrote:
               | Eye of the beholder, no?
               | 
               | As a woman, my first reaction to something being named
               | "PMS", I'd book it in the "insensitive" category. I know
               | lots of other women will too. We've heard a few too many
               | PMS remarks from men to not have a reaction.
               | 
               | It's not just insensitive if it's insensitive to _you_.
        
               | bachmeier wrote:
               | I stand corrected. I've never heard anyone consider it
               | insensitive, but if so, the name is that much worse.
        
         | tenebrisalietum wrote:
         | Personal Life Manager.
        
         | mathgladiator wrote:
         | Partition Management Service....? I don't get it.
        
         | jhgb wrote:
         | Yes, at the very least "project management software" and
         | "property management software" are already commonly using that
         | acronym. Someone else already mention the more appropriate
         | "personal knowledge base".
        
         | edoceo wrote:
         | How about PKB - Personal Knowledge Base
        
           | aftergibson wrote:
           | Yeah, an improvement I reckon.
        
         | eyeball wrote:
         | Double bad with the choice in clip art.
        
       | benatkin wrote:
       | I like that it stores passwords. I don't think it's an especially
       | good idea to use a simple piece of software like this, but I
       | don't think it's a good idea to use some popular commercial
       | password managers either, and at least this is open source and
       | self hosted.
       | 
       | I recommend using 1password though. It has issues but is a solid
       | piece of software that syncs to multiple devices.
        
         | sascha_sl wrote:
         | I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Yes? No? Yes?
         | 
         | Bitwarden has the advantage of being both self-hostable and
         | being available hosted, and I found it to be similar enough to
         | 1password to not substantially interrupt my workflow. In fact I
         | was missing the URL matching feature in 1password (and their
         | ages-old version of the public suffix list too).
        
         | gen220 wrote:
         | If you're already a UNIXy kind of person, you might want to
         | check out https://www.passwordstore.org/.
         | 
         | If you're comfortable in the UNIX world, it's easy to migrate
         | from all the big players, it's trivial to host the encrypted
         | passwords on gitlab.com or git@tunnel-to-your-lan.com.
         | 
         | To me, the key differentiating feature, that made it better
         | than bitwarden + co, is that it implements nothing on its own,
         | it's just a wrapper around git, gnupg, etc. This also means
         | that, 10 years from now, if you want to migrate to a hosted
         | solution, you can (since everything is plaintext at the deepest
         | level, migration-out should be easy).
         | 
         | It has mobile clients / multiple-device-sync, too. And it's
         | easy to manage, because it's just git under the hood.
         | 
         | I hadn't heard of them before doing some deep searching in this
         | space recently. It's a product with zero marketing budget, but
         | a good-sized community, so you wouldn't hear of it unless you
         | were googling search terms in the space.
        
       | camillomiller wrote:
       | PMS is, to me, pre-menstrual syndrome. The acronym choice was
       | probably not the best.
        
         | always_left wrote:
         | GSW is known as golden-state warriors (basketball), but my mom
         | worked in the ICU and would remind her of Gunshot wound.
        
           | bigbossman wrote:
           | That's what being a Warriors fan was like until 2013
        
       | alfonsodev wrote:
       | Nice idea!
       | 
       | It would be awesome to link with Apple Health, since it already
       | aggregates a lot of personal information.
        
       | twobitshifter wrote:
       | The app itself looks great and I agree with the need to free your
       | data. I don't know what your long term goals for the project are,
       | but I would suggest a different art style for the landing page.
       | The tiny head people are generic and overdone at this point and I
       | don't think it really jives with the style of the app or the
       | logo.
        
       | deftnerd wrote:
       | This looks very promising. I use several self-hosted solutions to
       | handle several of the things this provides.
       | 
       | The one thing that will keep me using Monica instead of this is
       | the ability to access my contact info and their birthdays using
       | CardDav and CalDav. CalDav for the Calendar would also be very
       | useful.
        
       | asidiali wrote:
       | This is incredible, I have been looking for something like this,
       | congrats on such well done work!
        
       | candiddevmike wrote:
       | If you're looking for something similar that does budgets,
       | recipes, calendars and more (also self hosted!) checkout
       | Domestica: https://about.domestica.app.
       | 
       | It's designed for families and couples, more of a "household data
       | management" solution.
       | 
       | Also, since this is HN, I'm looking for a marketing cofounder.
       | And if any VC is interested, we are looking to raise our first
       | funding round. Contact info is in my profile.
        
         | movedx wrote:
         | This looked really promising at first, but then I realised it's
         | self-hosted-with-crippled-features.
         | 
         | This thread on Reddit was enough to put off:
         | https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/m9nfsi/self_hos...
        
       | philote wrote:
       | I would suggest putting the description of what PMS is at the top
       | of the page rather than the very bottom. My pet peeve is
       | homepages of products that don't actually tell what the product
       | is in concise terms. This looks like a great project but I almost
       | ignored it due to not seeing the description at first.
       | 
       | EDIT: Also, you have a typo in "Powered by Symfony and
       | Typscript"... missing the "e" in "Typescript".
        
       | karlicoss wrote:
       | Nice work!
       | 
       | > The end goal is to have an application running on terminal or
       | raspberry 24/7 plugged into my home network, without access to
       | internet.
       | 
       | As far as I understand you're using it as the primary interface
       | for all your data, but in case you want to import some external
       | data sources too, you might be interested in a project I started
       | [0]. You can take periodic snapshots of you online data, and then
       | use it as a fully offline programmatic API to integrate with
       | other services, and potentially use in your dashboard as well.
       | Perhaps if you glance at the diagram [1] it might become clearer
       | how it fits :)
       | 
       | [0] https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI#readme
       | 
       | [1] https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html#fs
        
       | ijustwanttovote wrote:
       | Great idea, 'PMS' = weird name. I can definitely see a market for
       | this.
        
       | dvdkon wrote:
       | > It's very important to use strictly given NodeJs version. There
       | were already few reports that after JS recompilation the project
       | started to act strange. After further analyse it came out that
       | this was caused due to using the latest available Node.
       | 
       | I hate to bring node-bashing to this thread, but this further
       | cements my dislike for the platform. I don't know why, but this
       | happens much more often with node than Python or most other
       | languages.
        
       | wj wrote:
       | Nice. I modified Dashing to do something kind of similar many
       | years ago. Dashing then got discontinued and I didn't have time
       | to extend it as much as I wished. Still own the domains I bought
       | for it.
        
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