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Re: Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance

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Lovely interface. What does your tech stack look like?

Thanks! I built it with Vue.js, Vuetify, Chart.js, and Firebase. Firebase only comes into play for those who get premium and enable data synchronization though.

Just checked out Vuetify, looks pretty slick. Thanks for the tip. So does the client handle all the logic rather than a backend?

Re: Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance

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Lovely interface. What does your tech stack look like?

Definitely, the web design and UI immediately grabbed my attention.

Thanks! It was tricky to build in so much flexibility and customization while still keeping the overall UI feeling relatively clean.. I try to strike a good balance there, but if you feel there are areas where I haven't succeeded, definitely let me know.

Re: Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance

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I like the interface and the fact I don't have to connect any of my personal accounts. I've used other products that require permissions or user/pw and usually the connections fail or have some issue that makes them useless. It's nice I can do this manually, which I have a spreadsheet I use once a month anyway manually. I'm going to keep playing with this, maybe I can get rid of my spreadsheet!

Re: Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance

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I like the interface and the fact I don't have to connect any of my personal accounts. I've used other products that require permissions or user/pw and usually the connections fail or have some issue that makes them useless. It's nice I can do this manually, which I have a spreadsheet I use once a month anyway manually. I'm going to keep playing with this, maybe I can get rid of my spreadsheet!

If there's anything you feel your spreadsheet still does better, just let me know! Always working on new features and improvements. In the past I've had some bad experiences with services that require linked accounts as well; seems like there's still a surprising amount of friction there.

Re: Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance

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Very cool. I vaguely remember the ProjectFi version. It seems like you made a lot of enhancements. Looks good.

Thanks! I've put a ton of work in since then, and it's been a fun side project that kept me focused and energized and thinking positive thoughts during the pandemic. Also, the fact you remember it as "ProjectFi" is one of the many reasons for the rebrand -- that first "i" in ProjectiFi got lost by so many people.

Ha! Fortunately, in my case I was in a position not to make that mistake. Project Fi (now Google Fi) used to be my phone provider. That does seem like it would be a common mistake, though.

It's a good product so it's nice to see that it's still getting some love.

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Glad to see that you've continued investing in this project! I paid for the Premium version back in the Projectifi times and would have loved a heads up by email that you made some significant updates.

I sent out a few rebranding messages and a bunch of updates on new features over the past few months, but it sounds like maybe you subscribed before I even had an email list haha. Thanks for being an early adopter! It's folks like you that helped encourage me to keep working on it :)

Re: Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance

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I like the interface and the fact I don't have to connect any of my personal accounts. I've used other products that require permissions or user/pw and usually the connections fail or have some issue that makes them useless. It's nice I can do this manually, which I have a spreadsheet I use once a month anyway manually. I'm going to keep playing with this, maybe I can get rid of my spreadsheet!

If there's anything you feel your spreadsheet still does better, just let me know! Always working on new features and improvements. In the past I've had some bad experiences with services that require linked accounts as well; seems like there's still a surprising amount of friction there.

I’m also a subscriber and wanted to export the some stuff to a Google Sheet to give to my financial adviser- I had to do some funky js console stuff.

Adding an export, with yearly/monthly resolution and customizable columns would be trivial probably.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there's anything you feel your spreadsheet still does better, just let me know! Always working on new features and improvements. In the past I've had some bad experiences with services that require linked accounts as well; seems like there's still a surprising amount of friction there.

I’m also a subscriber and wanted to export the some stuff to a Google Sheet to give to my financial adviser- I had to do some funky js console stuff. Adding an export, with yearly/monthly resolution and customizable columns would be trivial probably.

Recently I added a tabular view with JSON/Excel export option (v2.7.0); let me know if that helps!

Re: Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance

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Glad to see that you've continued investing in this project! I paid for the Premium version back in the Projectifi times and would have loved a heads up by email that you made some significant updates.

Me too! OG 5/3/21. How do we get on the mailing list?
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