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Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
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Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
#222The good: the interface is very slick, nice work, you obviously put a lot of work into this tool.
The bad: I was immediately turned off that I was presented with an up-sell to premium on the very first on-boarding step and it was for a color theme... Not only that, but I couldn't find any information on what the pricing was until significantly further into using the tool, another major turn off.
The ugly: Not being transparent about premium up front feels deceptive and makes me very weary of giving you any of my data.
Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't mind the number of steps, at least is not asking for creating a user before trying. But I'd replace the theme selection with currency selection, much more relevant.
Great point! Currency selector coming soon. Would you recommend demoting the theme selection to like a last step in the onboarding process? Or not showing it at all during onboarding and leaving it for users to find on their own?
Introduce features to users as they continue to use the tool. They don't need to know everything as soon as they start using it, and you want to have the ability to introduce new features later on anyways!
Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both the site guidelines and the FAQ explain that this is not allowed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html The HN community considers it spamming and guards its integrity rather zealously.
Making an account to post something and coincidentally having friends who on their own decided to make accounts to comment is against the rules?
It's not coincidentally.
Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
#225I wish this was offline, this stuff is a little too personal to have hooked to identifying information. This looks great for those who don't have issues with that though.
Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
#226Looks interesting, but based on the privacy policy terms of data usage, transferability, and so forth, I can't in good faith test with real financial data: https://projectifi.io/privacy-policy.html Everytime I see a tool that shouldn't need to be hosted remotely as a service and could reasonably be deployed to the client where they have more control over their data (not as a service), it's a non-starter for me. I get…
I agree. The trend of handing over all your data ( especially your financial data) to some nebulous service isn't exactly my favourite. Which is why I built https://ufincs.com , a nebulous service where you hand over all your financial data! Yes, that was a joke. In reality, uFincs is more of a stop-gap between what you seek (native app where you own the data) and what the status quo is (web-based app where your data…
This looks like exactly something i've been after! I used to use an iOS app but really missed becuase able to access it on windows....but the pricing just seems way too high. Its more expensive than a photoshop sub...
Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
#227Love it, subscribed with the 60% off. Fantastic & beautiful tool, can't wait to see how much it grows.
I second multiple currencies, I'm in NZ and would love the tax and stuff to work itself automatically but appreciate the enourmous overheads for doing that.
Found a bug: changing the "Maximum Value" field for a house affects all other houses.
Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
#228The good: the interface is very slick, nice work, you obviously put a lot of work into this tool. The bad: I was immediately turned off that I was presented with an up-sell to premium on the very first on-boarding step and it was for a color theme... Not only that, but I couldn't find any information on what the pricing was until significantly further into using the tool, another major turn off. The ugly: Not being t…
Good points. A lot of people have been really tearing into the color theme selector on here, so it looks like that will be getting demoted out of the onboarding experience haha. As for premium, I'll make the feature breakdown of Free vs Premium available from the home page so that communication is clearer from the start. Thanks for your thoughts!
Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
#229Love it, subscribed with the 60% off. Fantastic & beautiful tool, can't wait to see how much it grows. I second multiple currencies, I'm in NZ and would love the tax and stuff to work itself automatically but appreciate the enourmous overheads for doing that. Found a bug: changing the "Maximum Value" field for a house affects all other houses.
Thanks so much! I'll look into that.
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Agreed. Giving up my financials to a site is unacceptable. I rather use Excel sheet with fancy graphs myself.
So a site like youneedabudget would not be useful either to you?
No. After long years of trying to fix my financial life, I am sure of one thing that apps do not help. Simplifying it with a simple excel sheet is way more efficient because it is much more simple, realistic and more flexible too. Simple math, you make X, spend Y. If there is a new expense, add a new line in excel and finished. I tried many of these apps in the past. Excel wins every time. (For me.)