Just bought to test but after payment goes back to a broken link ( goes to .app domain instead of .com )
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Show HN: Budget Kanban – Visually manage finances in Kanban boards
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Re: Show HN: Budget Kanban – Visually manage finances in Kanban boards
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not particularly out-of-line for budgeting software, at least if it keeps your data private. But yeah, trial would be nice. I still sort of hope for a good FOSS budgeting software for Apple's devices but I'm currently using Copilot (not the AI front-end) and like it so far. EDIT: I would say the issue with budgeting software is that overall it's not going to be something that offers hockeystick growth for inve…
I like the creativity of the new form factor. My son and I are working on a spending journal which puts forth a new kind of form factor for tracking expenses. Our emphasis is less on the accounting angle and more on the behavioral side. We use the journal for self-evaluation of individual spending decisions and as a tool to communicate spending intent within our household. It turns out that between myself, my wife an…
That's a good way to teach kid the psychology of finances. Good luck Dlarsen! Keep innovating :D
Re: Show HN: Budget Kanban – Visually manage finances in Kanban boards
#53This looks like way more work than just using a spreadsheet. Kanban don’t seem like the right abstraction for financial planning. How does this actually prevent budget overrun when nothing is automated? It seems like the data is only accurate if someone correctly enters it and drags the boxes into the appropriate columns. The app looks nice, but this feels like a solution in search of a problem. You could easily pivo…
Yeah this. After futzing with Excel for over a decade, I switched to GNUcash and the budgeting didn't work, then two other commercial products which didn't work, then I tried to design a product which would solve the problem and that didn't work either. So here I am back on a spreadsheet. The problem is sometimes things aren't ideal or simple to represent. A spreadsheet forms no restrictions so you can ad-hoc futz wi…
Thanks for the feedback cjk2! I'm curious which industry you work on?
Re: Show HN: Budget Kanban – Visually manage finances in Kanban boards
#54Well... Nice UI but... I track my finances with org-mode and Beancount/Fava for UI and well it's far more clear for me, not only because the current state of things but because the "new views" I can easily make. Kanban was born to help mass produce mechanical parts, and for that's is very effective, but to follow or design things, like many do today, it's not good at all IMVHO...
Happy for you to find the tool that works for you :)
It's not a critic to Budget Kanban devs, it's a critic to modern UIs and to single-entry bookkeeping in general.
A small example: let's imaging you auto-import your groceries thanks to some supermarkets that offer csv export of tickets. If you track expenses you do not know nothing beside a total amount or at maximum a total amount per vendor. If you track in double-entry you can slice your transactions as much as you want: you have the total amount of groceries, the total amount per vendor, but potentially the total amount of cheese, meet, salad and so on. The total amount of cheese regardless of where you bought it I mean. Automagically you have your stock and also a diary balance of what you eat. All on the same data.
Budgeting up front is the same, you can create nth accounts and "move money" between them, with all balancing options at hand.
No UIs can compete with autocompleted text and views eventually generated from it, entirely user-constructed, with graphs of any kind, statistics and so on.
Finally there is a bottomline: tracking finances, notes, ... are long-term stuff, switching tools in most cases, especially switching modern tools, is a nightmare. Text can be manipulated easily and any workflow in the end might be bend easily, UIs are a different story, switching even if you have some export-then-import ability mean also learn a new workflow adapting yourself to the tool instead of the contrary. So far NO ONE on Earth have succeeded crafting something as flexible as text an UIs built out of it.
Re: Show HN: Budget Kanban – Visually manage finances in Kanban boards
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#56I found the "Sign up for free" option too misleading for my preferences: it leads you to create a project, which immediately leads to a payment page. I guess I did "sign up for free", but I'm not sure what signing up got me. Kudos on getting my email —— I hope I don't get any marketing materials I didn't consent to.
Understood, the message can be confusing, so I'll take it down. Originally, it was meant for individuals invited to a board by someone else, allowing them to sign up without creating a board. If it's causing confusion, I'll make sure to clarify it. If you'd like, I can delete your account. Just use the feedback widget on the site to let me know which account you want to be deleted. Also, rest assured, I don't send an…
I just wanted to acknowledge how wholesome your answer was, and thank you for it.
(Hopefully you get acquired sometime soon, and then "you"'ll be sending marketing materials :P -- like it or not.)