Post #131848

2026-01-13 15:14 UTC

I’ve been using various contact managers but they all feel like sales tools, so I built Nametag to track the people I actually care about - friends, family, colleagues. It maps relationships, tracks birthdays, and visualizes your network as an interactive graph. Self-hosting highlights: Docker Compose setup - PostgreSQL, Redis, Next.js app. One command to start No email service needed - Accounts auto-verify, works completely offline Unlimited contacts - No artificial limits (hosted version caps free tier at 50) Complete data ownership - Your relationship data stays on your infrastructure Optional email - Can configure Resend if you want birthday/reminder emails No phone-home - Runs entirely on your network if you want AGPL-3.0 licensed - Full source access Features: Track people with flexible attributes (name, birthday, contact info, notes) Map relationships between people (family, friends, colleagues, custom types) Interactive D3.js network graph visualization Custom groups for organizing contacts Birthday reminders (if you configure email) Dark mode, i18n (English and Spanish for now, but more are coming) Mobile-responsive Tech stack: Next.js 16 (TypeScript) PostgreSQL + Prisma ORM Redis for rate limiting D3.js for graph visualization Tailwind CSS Quick start: git clone https://github.com/mattogodoy/nametag cd nametag # Edit .env with your secrets docker-compose up -d Database migrations run automatically on first start. Access at localhost:3000. There’s also a hosted version at nametag.one if you don’t want to self-host (helps fund development). GitHub: github.com/mattogodoy/nametag Happy to answer questions about the setup, architecture, or deployment!

Replies (17)

@femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-13 17:07

This might work for my poly group. We always wanted to visualize how we are all connected.

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@Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 2026-01-13 15:56

Quick question, when hosted plan says up to 50 people, is that you can add 50 people to remember or 50 people can access one database?

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@cravl@slrpnk.net 2026-01-13 22:12

For small personal deployments, is SQLite support planned? It's crazy performant and I have to imagine it would work for up to 500 contacts at the very least, which should cover the majority of deployments. Making Redis optional (otherwise using a basic in-memory KV store of some kind) would also be cool.

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@thurstylark@lemmy.today 2026-01-13 17:52

A+ for custom connection types. Polycules rejoyce!

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@fastfinge@rblind.com 2026-01-13 21:33

Any way to sync with contacts on mobile? I’d love one source of truth.

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@jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2026-01-14 11:03

Does it have caldav/carddav capabilities? That's key to keep it all there.

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@petersr@lemmy.world 2026-01-13 19:18

I remember using Monica years back for something similar. Quickly lost the habits of using it since it was a lot of work updating and it didn't feel like it was worth the effort.

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@bootloop@lemmy.world 2026-01-13 23:20

Congratulations on the launch! Could this also be used as a genealogy tree? I've been wanting for a long time to create mine but the options I found were too expensive and I wasn't up to create it from scratch (too long and not future proof).

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@Lemmchen@feddit.org 2026-01-13 15:37

This looks fun. I think I'm going to try that. I've also just randomly noticed that the link on alternative.to doesn't work for whatever reason: https://alternativeto.net/software/monica/?toid=nametag--never-forget-a-name-again

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@dieTasse@feddit.org 2026-01-14 07:35

Great scott! That's heavy.

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@eli@lemmy.world 2026-01-13 18:36

This looks great. I'm running a Teable instance, but sometimes it feels like it is "too much" sometimes. I think I'll deploy this for fun to check out. I don't see anything specific here for things like gift ideas or favorite flowers/colors? Like custom tags/categories/attributes. I'm using Teable to track things like that, but I love the visualization here, reminds me of my obsidian mind map lol.

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@njordomir@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 05:06

Looks good. I've considered a personal CRM for some time and have been using Obsidian a little bit. Having said that, I am open to something more tailored to the task. A question: what would it look like if someone wanted to export their data out of this tool later? Do I need to be a programmer to migrate away or is it relatively simple?

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@jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 2026-01-13 18:04

This looks cool, interested to see how this stacks up against Monica & if there are plans for a mobile app

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@Rutrapio@piaille.fr 2026-01-13 15:27

[@SomeDudeFromSpace](https://lemmy.ml/u/SomeDudeFromSpace) I'm sooo gonna try this ! Thanks !

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@autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2026-01-13 15:48

No reason this should need a server.

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@SomeDudeFromSpace@lemmy.ml 2026-01-14 09:38

Yes! That's one of the main features of this project :)

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@SomeDudeFromSpace@lemmy.ml 2026-01-14 16:24

Thanks! I hope it fits your needs

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