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Re: Show HN: Simple Budgeting

#11

This seems great, but growing up among Yiddish speakers, this word has a very different connotation. Just worth being aware of.

Not just yiddish, it's also common slang in many parts of the US to mean a very stupid or incompetent person. So yeah, terrible branding IMHO

Re: Show HN: Simple Budgeting

#12
Suggestions:

- a default set of categories would be useful

- I don't always add expenses immediately, so being able to change the date would useful.

- the ... in the overview window prompts you to delete a budget! seems dangerous

- ditto on another comment, there's no way to edit an expense.

- It might be interesting to setup Income and then allocate budgets based on % of income to automatically calculate budget targets.

Nice work.

Re: Show HN: Simple Budgeting

#13
Expense tracking seems to be a trend recently! I myself use HelloExpense [1] (just a happy user) and I recently developed a small tool to analyse my expenses. It handles a simple csv format (from the hello expense export, but could be generalised). I thought I might share it in this thread. If people are interested, I put a demo at https://expenses-analysis.herokuapp.com/

About your website: I would have liked to get info without registering. The explanation is short, and the only links are to sign up or sign in.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.helloexpen...

Re: Show HN: Simple Budgeting

#14

This seems great, but growing up among Yiddish speakers, this word has a very different connotation. Just worth being aware of.

I'm not even Jewish and "putz!" is usually what I shout when I'm driving in heavy traffic.

For all the emphasis we put on design principles and naming conventions, we collectively suck at naming our products.

Then again, maybe that name is genius.

Re: Show HN: Simple Budgeting

#15
What percentage of people have the discipline to use this app, but lack financial discipline?

Website: "You want new clothes, an iced coffee, but does it fit your budget?"

Oh the irony if the user were to get ads for new clothes and iced coffee...

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post #11

This seems great, but growing up among Yiddish speakers, this word has a very different connotation. Just worth being aware of.

Not just yiddish, it's also common slang in many parts of the US to mean a very stupid or incompetent person. So yeah, terrible branding IMHO

It’s a common swear word in Brazil too

Re: Show HN: Simple Budgeting

#17
A little off-topic, but really wondering; am i the only one annoyed by the fact that 9 out of 10 apps these days are:

1. cloud based/harvesting as much data as possible and/or 2. subscriptions

I prefer apps like for example Omnifocus [1], that give you:

1. the ability to client-side encrypt your data so your data won't be sold/misused, and 2. instead of making profit of selling your data, simply let you pay a larger amount upfront for it instead. Thus, you also know exactly what features you're paying for - as opposed to subscriptions...

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/omnifocus-3/id1346190318?mt=...

Re: Show HN: Simple Budgeting

#18

This seems great, but growing up among Yiddish speakers, this word has a very different connotation. Just worth being aware of.

I'm not even Jewish and "putz!" is usually what I shout when I'm driving in heavy traffic. For all the emphasis we put on design principles and naming conventions, we collectively suck at naming our products. Then again, maybe that name is genius.

Wait till you learn what this means in Greek :D Hint: definitely NSFW

Re: Show HN: Simple Budgeting

#19

A little off-topic, but really wondering; am i the only one annoyed by the fact that 9 out of 10 apps these days are: 1. cloud based/harvesting as much data as possible and/or 2. subscriptions I prefer apps like for example Omnifocus [1], that give you: 1. the ability to client-side encrypt your data so your data won't be sold/misused, and 2. instead of making profit of selling your data, simply let you pay a larger…

What does a subscription business model have to do with selling of data? That would be correlated with an ad model.

Re: Show HN: Simple Budgeting

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not even Jewish and "putz!" is usually what I shout when I'm driving in heavy traffic. For all the emphasis we put on design principles and naming conventions, we collectively suck at naming our products. Then again, maybe that name is genius.

Wait till you learn what this means in Greek :D Hint: definitely NSFW

Is it similar to the word "bro" in mandarin? :P
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