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Bonds
Remember everything about the people who matter.
6 followers
Remember everything about the people who matter.
6 followers
Bonds is a self-hosted personal relationship manager built with Go & React. Track contacts, birthdays, notes, reminders, and life events — all in a single binary you deploy in seconds. Inspired by Monica, rebuilt for speed.
Hey, cool app—made an account and it looks promising at first glance.
I built something similar before, inspired by David Rockefeller's Rolodex. Love how straightforward his template was.
Bonds feels a bit busy for my taste.
Quick search on Rockefeller's Rolodex might spark ideas. Could be a nice SaaS/Marketing angle too, if you're interested down the line.
Well done!
@capryoung Thanks for trying it out! 🙏
Great reference — Rockefeller's Rolodex is legendary for its simplicity. I totally get the "busy" feel — Bonds is intentionally feature-rich because it's designed to be a full personal relationship manager, not just a contact list. Things like multi-vault isolation, CardDAV/CalDAV sync (so your contacts show up in Apple Contacts/Thunderbird natively), recurring reminders via email/Telegram, life event tracking, document management, and even cross-vault relationships — these all add surface area, but they're there because real relationship management goes way beyond names and phone numbers.
That said, Bonds has a template system — you can customize exactly which modules appear on each contact page (Settings → Personalize → Templates). So if you want a clean, Rolodex-style view with just names and notes, you can totally strip it down to that.
Making the default experience feel less overwhelming is definitely something I want to improve though. Appreciate the feedback — it's exactly the kind of thing that's hard to see when you're deep in building.
And the SaaS/marketing angle is an interesting idea — might explore that down the road! 😄