I'm a happy self-hosted Monica user, I like that I have alerts set to remind me of birthdays and other events, and that there's a place to list, e.g. everyone who got a Christmas card from me last year. I recommend it to people.

I'm agnostic about a rewrite, I never used Chandler and as far as I'm concerned it's perfectly serviceable for me the end user as it is. I rarely use the UI. I have been contemplating interacting with it more agentically, maybe having a bot update the record that I had a beer with someone instead of doing it by hand, but I like that it's focused.

I have started musing about how I might bridge it to other systems, like the people I have resolved from faces in my Immich photos, but I neither want or expect Monica to do this for me.

How did you spin up the self-hosted instance?

Seems the self-hosting documentation is a bit... lacking. Both "self-hosting" buttons on the main page send me to "#".

It seems interesting, even though I'm more of the roll your own school of thought here because there could be some very sensitive data in this system.

https://docs-monicahq.vercel.app/docs/start/installation