Also wanted to leave my email address in case anyone wants to reach out: jen@lunchbag.dev
Show HN: Lunch Money, a personal budgeting tool with multi-currency support
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#42looks like too many people wanted to check it out - Plaid is returning a 429
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#44Why should I use a service hosted by someone else for something this important? Not only will I (besides losing money) have to worry about not being able to access my data, but especially about somebody else accessing it.
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#45This looks really cool! I'm not sure if I wanna register myself on this service yet so I haven't seen a lot of it but I'm curious: How is my transaction data imported? Are there APIs for that or do something else? (Sorry if this is explained somewhere on the site already.)
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#46I'm on the phone right now, it's not clear in the bit of the site I can see. But is it possible to run it on the desktop, entirely offline?
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#47I really like where this is going. It looks like a much more polished version of my own personal solution for this problem. The one thing I really dislike is the way transactions are brought into the system. I get that it's preferable to outsource that to entities that specialize in it, like Yodlee/Plaid/whatever, but when I get to that IFRAME asking me to enter my banking credentials... sorry, I just can't bring mys…
I hear you loud and clear. Allowing manual import of transactions via CSV is very high on our feature list! Using a service like Plaid to automatically import transactions was a great way to attract our first users and validate our product. Going forward, we definitely want to also support more ways of importing transactions.
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#48YNAB user here - this looks great and I love new tools :) but what differentiates this from YNAB besides non-envelope budgeting method? also nice - the ability for a partner/spouse to collaborate on the same budget which is also a nice plus Lunch Money has if there is an "last edited" feature and collaboration as a 1st-class thing (YNAB is stubborn on this point)
To your point about collaboration, we track who did what, but we don't go as far as having a complete edit history. It seems like a good idea though, I'll add that to our backlog. Thanks for the feedback!
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#49This looks like what I for my own financials, only more done ;). I like the graphs, although I am confused by the example where you are under budget, but the line is still red.
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#50I'm on the phone right now, it's not clear in the bit of the site I can see. But is it possible to run it on the desktop, entirely offline?
It's a web application, it won't do you much good if you're offline unfortunately. That being said, our mobile app will be optimized for offline usage!