Show HN: Penny, an easy way to track your spending
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Re: Show HN: Penny, an easy way to track your spending
#2Are you looking to expand into the UK any time soon? I would be interested in using it.
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#3Why would I migrate from Mint to this?
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#4this was posted not too long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9942202
Though i can't tell if anything has changed since the last posting
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#5Looks useful and neat, but remember kids: if you're not paying for it, you're the product.
Some of their competition: http://linxo.com (used it for 5 years now), http://bankin.com (used once, preferred linxo).
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#6Although it looks great, I still have no idea if it supports different types of accounts (loans, banks, etc.) or even if it supports my bank.
Looking around I don't see a list of supported accounts or account types. Is it hidden somewhere?
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#7Why would I migrate from Mint to this?
Because Mint has been horribly broken and useless from the day Intuit bought it. Currently I use an excel spreadsheet in lieu of my now-inactive Mint account. Because even nothing is better than mint.
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#8Are you serious!? Every Paragraph in their Privacy section reads like:
"We totally won't collect your data; and definetly won't store them, BUT we kind of do something similar and you just have to accept that"
Nobody should ever use this BS!
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#9Why would I migrate from Mint to this?
Mitch here, one of the co-founders.
I don't want to throw Mint under the bus: I used it for ~6 years before starting to work on Penny and it's a great tool for people that enjoy spreadsheets and crunching numbers (myself included). That said, it can be pretty intimidating to just to about everyone else. Penny requires a lot less effort on your part, since the number crunching is all done behind the scenes to generate cool insights.
To answer the specific question of why _you_ might switch: Mint hasn't really improved beyond the addition of more ads in the past four to five years. It's painfully slow (at least for me) and still has not learned that my gym membership is not software.
Re: Show HN: Penny, an easy way to track your spending
#10Although it looks great, I still have no idea if it supports different types of accounts (loans, banks, etc.) or even if it supports my bank. Looking around I don't see a list of supported accounts or account types. Is it hidden somewhere?
I had it easier: "Penny is currently only available in the United States" on the app store already made it clear that it's not for me ;)