The problem: We all have hundreds of contacts scattered everywhere, but can we remember when we last talked to an old friend? Their birthday? How we met them?

The solution: Nametag helps you track people, map how they're connected, and visualize your network as an interactive graph.

Features:

Track people with flexible attributes (birthdays, contact info, notes)
Map relationships (family, friends, colleagues, custom types)
Network graph visualization showing how everyone connects
Custom groups for organizing contacts
Birthday and contact reminders
Dark mode, internationalization (EN/ES)
Mobile-responsive

Tech stack:

Next.js 16 with TypeScript
PostgreSQL + Prisma ORM
D3.js for graph visualization
Redis for rate limiting
Tailwind CSS
Docker Compose deployment

Why AGPL-3.0?

I chose AGPL instead of MIT/Apache because I want to ensure that if someone modifies and deploys Nametag (especially as a hosted service), they have to contribute their improvements back to the community. Personal relationship data is sensitive - users should always have the right to inspect and modify the code handling their data.

Dual model:

Hosted SaaS: https://nametag.one/ (free tier: 50 people, paid from $1/month) - sustains development
Self-hosted: Unlimited contacts, complete data ownership, free forever

The SaaS helps fund development, but self-hosting is a first-class citizen with no compromises. Auto-verified accounts, no email service required, works completely offline.

Contributing:

Looking for contributors! Areas where help would be awesome:

Additional language translations (currently EN/ES)
Graph visualization improvements (performance with 500+ nodes)
Mobile app (Native would be great, but also open to React Native or similar)
Export/import formats (vCard, CSV, etc.)
Documentation improvements

GitHub: https://github.com/mattogodoy/nametag

I'd be happy to hear any suggestions you might have. Have a nice day!

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[–] Arigion@feddit.org 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We all have hundreds of contacts

What? Really? Can't relate.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have over 800 and I'm not even a salesperson or anything like that; that's mostly from exchanged emails over the years

[–] thomasshikari@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“Here’s my email” isn’t any kind of a relationship though. 800+ contacts means you need to go through and delete unnecessary/unused contacts. Of which there are hundreds.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

of course most are not used, that is fine, I don't understand why anyone would bother deleting "unused" contacts

[–] thomasshikari@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My reply definitely seems more rude than I meant it, upon re-reading. Apologies! To each their own. I think the thought of having 800+ contacts just seems overwhelming and cluttered to me. I’d go crazy if I had that many lol

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

no problem. I can see that, at the same time, the directory of the place I work at has 20x that number and finding someone is never an issue, so I also don't bother cleaning up my local list.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

I have about 8, and it's too much.

[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Looks nice, thanks! I've had my eye on Monica for a while but always bounced off it rather than bothering to add MySQL to my stack, so I appreciate you're picking postgres. What other differentiations from Monica would you highlight?

[–] SomeDudeFromSpace@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Thank you!

Monica is where I started at. I was really hoping that it would cover my needs, but after some time of using it I found it too complex for what I really needed. Also, I was missing the network graph, which might be useful or not, but it's fun :)

Also, when I tried self-hosting it I found a lot of problems when trying to make it work, and at the end I gave up. It feels like the project is a bit outdated.

Honestly, what I wanted is Monica to cover my needs, so I didn't have to start an alternative, but here we are 😆