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Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by euphemize »

mapgrep wrote: post #37

How do I enter expenses? I was hoping the app description would tell me that. It doesn't seem to be on the web page or app store page. The pain of budgeting is in tracking outflows, at least for me. I make a combination of debit, credit, and cash purchases, and even just through those three channels it's easy to lose track of what went where. As you note in your app description, people typically give up "tracking exp…

+1 to this too. Not mentioning this very clearly somewhere at the top automatically leads me to believe (perhaps wrongly) that you haven't addressed this problem.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by daemonk »

pseudometa wrote: post #15

I love this. The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous. Anyone can make lots of crapy apps. Creating a well designed app with valuable functionality and propper marketing/support web pages takes time and skill. Kudos.

Executing an idea and following through to completion is hard enough. I think anyone who has made an app whether it is 1 quality app or 30 mediocre apps should pat themselves on the back for breaking through a barrier that not many people actually go through.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by Iftheshoefits »

rplnt wrote: post #17

> Requires Android > 4.0 and up This cuts out pretty big portion of the userbase, doesn't it? Around 25% according to developers' dashboards[1]. I'm also interested in how this makes money? Or how it could make money. I'm not sure ads are viable alternative for apps you don't need to engage a lot with (i.e. games, readers, ..). 1. http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

The 25% (or so) of Android users who are cut out by this likely aren't going to be terribly concerned with budgeting for themselves, and probably can't afford to pay for anything anyway.

I begin all of my new Android projects with compatibility for 4.0 and later only, because my target market doesn't include people with small budgets buying budget smartphones with years-old OS versions, because they're less likely to do what I want them to: pay me money.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by melling »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #41
pseudometa wrote: post #15

I love this. The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous. Anyone can make lots of crapy apps. Creating a well designed app with valuable functionality and propper marketing/support web pages takes time and skill. Kudos.

The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous. Anyone can make lots of crapy apps You're being very mean towards a fellow human being who is likely still an active HN participant and might read your comment. It's also mistaken. ~99.9% of people can't.

He doesn't need to be mean, but we as a community should probably be more excited about quality over quantity. Software that has an impact should be the goal.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by elwell »

pseudometa wrote: post #15

I love this. The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous. Anyone can make lots of crapy apps. Creating a well designed app with valuable functionality and propper marketing/support web pages takes time and skill. Kudos.

I hope there was plenty of prototypes over the course of the year. A year seems dangerously long to work on an app without testing it with users / the market.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by Sujan »

melling wrote: post #64
sillysaurus2 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous. Anyone can make lots of crapy apps You're being very mean towards a fellow human being who is likely still an active HN participant and might read your comment. It's also mistaken. ~99.9% of people can't.

He doesn't need to be mean, but we as a community should probably be more excited about quality over quantity. Software that has an impact should be the goal.

We as a community should probably be more excited about doing vs. talking (about doing and then not doing for no reason).

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by ianlevesque »

Zikes wrote: post #60
ianlevesque wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm making it a webapp. If you look at my profile you'll see I do tons of mobile work but I think something like this is better suited to a computer than a phone.

For mobile integration I highly recommend a CalDAV[1] feed. This sort of budgeting really makes a calendar view essential, and CalDAV integration with the phone's own calendar seems ideal. Beyond that, some minimal mobile access would be nice for things like adding/modifying recurring events, updating the balance, or entering a new one-off debit/credit. I stress this because I think for a lot of people budget applica…

That's neat I hadn't considered CalDAV. There'll be a mobile stylesheet at least, I want that for my own use.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by chadcf »

x3ro wrote: post #56
chadcf wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The ones that require me to input the data are just too much work. I've been using YNAB (You Need A Budget) for a few months, and it makes you input everything. I initially resisted and thought the same thing as you. However I forced myself to try it because so many people recommended it so highly. It is at it's core a glorified spreadsheet, but it's a very well designed spreadsheet with great support and a solid b…

I was about to try this too, but it wants to know my location, phone call information, storage access and whatnot :(

Download the desktop version. The mobile one is not a full fledged app, it's mostly a convenience to record transactions and check budget amounts on the go. 99% of the time I use the desktop app.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by tudorconstantin »

DLarsen wrote: post #38
tudorconstantin wrote: post #18

Is there the possibility to create a budget for the family? So that both me and my wife will spend from the same budget? Do you know of any android/web app that can do that?

You essentially just want the app on each device tied into the same account?

i want a common budget (family budget) which to be accessed by me and my wife, so that we're also able to see which one spends more.
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