Monica

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Monica, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 11 complaints

Installation is painful, with constant errors and warnings during setup2026-09-02
Notes aren't auto-saved, so a browser crash or closed tab loses everything typed2026-08-05
First prompt demands manual entry of all contacts with no import option2023-01-19
Maintaining a separate specialized tool adds friction, so the user stopped keeping it up to date2020-12-02
Adding information to contacts is too slow, with too much friction2020-12-02
Ticked checkboxes stay checked with no clear way to add contacts2020-12-02
Forced to pick Male or Female for every contact entered2019-12-21
Installing it requires changing the webserver config, which is unnecessarily hard2018-10-28
Edit link styled differently from Add links, took 40 seconds to find2017-06-06
Clicking Login on the main page triggers an endless redirect loop2017-06-06
Edit button is hard to spot, so user clicks plain text instead2017-06-06