Show HN: Keep, an app that helps you love how you spend every dollar

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 11, 2014, 1:15 PM UTC

porker wrote: post #89

percentcer wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't done full time freelance so feel free to shoot this idea down, but I'm always curious as to why freelancers don't just put their income in a separate, harder-to-access bank account and pay themselves a regular, weekly disbursement from that.

I do put it in a separate bank account (a company account), but up to now I take drawings in chunks, maybe every 3 months. To make YNAB easier I am trying to take a chunk once a month, which feels very unusual. There is also other random income that's not income. In the UK it's common for savings account interest to be paid back into the linked current account. For me that's not income to be spent each month, that's…

Post by tamal » Fri, Jul 11, 2014, 3:22 PM UTC

porker wrote: post #89

percentcer wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't done full time freelance so feel free to shoot this idea down, but I'm always curious as to why freelancers don't just put their income in a separate, harder-to-access bank account and pay themselves a regular, weekly disbursement from that.

I do put it in a separate bank account (a company account), but up to now I take drawings in chunks, maybe every 3 months. To make YNAB easier I am trying to take a chunk once a month, which feels very unusual. There is also other random income that's not income. In the UK it's common for savings account interest to be paid back into the linked current account. For me that's not income to be spent each month, that's…

Post by BorisMelnik » Sat, Jul 12, 2014, 8:10 PM UTC

MrMeker wrote: post #14

Not a good choice for a name. Google Keep has been around for a while and does something similar: organization.