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Re: Show HN: I made a super simple iOS app to track expenses

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Nyoxide wrote: post #59
hdevel wrote: post #55

Can i export a budget data?

Unfortunately this isn't currently possible but this is on the app's TODO list. Do you have any idea of how you would like to export them ? How it would look like ?

So far, I am liking this application although i have been using it for the last 4 days. So, My ideas are either to have an endpoint where you can GET the exported data as xml or csv, you authenticate using a token generated in the application per client. OR to just to have an export button per budget what exports the whole expenses within the budget as csv file.

Re: Show HN: I made a super simple iOS app to track expenses

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Post by Nyoxide »

hdevel wrote: post #61
Nyoxide wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately this isn't currently possible but this is on the app's TODO list. Do you have any idea of how you would like to export them ? How it would look like ?

So far, I am liking this application although i have been using it for the last 4 days. So, My ideas are either to have an endpoint where you can GET the exported data as xml or csv, you authenticate using a token generated in the application per client. OR to just to have an export button per budget what exports the whole expenses within the budget as csv file.

Thank you very much for the feedback and the idea. I will work on this

Re: Show HN: I made a super simple iOS app to track expenses

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Post by vxNsr »

mackrevinack wrote: post #51
jmathai wrote: post #26

Congrats on the launch. I don’t know how folks manage to consistently budget if they have to enter transactions manually. After trying a bunch of overly complex budgeting apps like ynab - I wrote one for my wife and I (it used to be open for others). https://fiers.co/features/spend I’m using a developer plaid account (free) to download transactions. Works pretty well - we are goin on 4 years of budgeting and it’s bee…

does ynab still make you enter things manually? i think i remember reading some ynab blog posts years ago where they were implying that they kept it manual by design so that you would be taking a more active role in your budgeting every day, compared to something that added everything automatically. it makes sense but it could have also just been an excuse at the time because its complicated to add support for that t…

YNAB supports auto imports. They use both Plaid and MX. Initially they only used MX, but then for whatever reason there was a point where they were trying to drop MX but they gave up when plaid proved to be more (or just as) unreliable, now they use both. Each user is only supposed to use one or the other. You don’t get to choose they assign it to you randomly when you sign up, you’ll know based on the UI which you got. If a specific bank is having trouble connecting, support can manually set that bank for that user to be through the other service, I’ve had to do this a few times. Their support is stellar, still I wish banks provided better APIs.

They’ve raised their prices recently which got a lot of people very upset. A few went off on their own to create a new budgeting app, but since then most of those efforts died due to the giant undertaking it is as mentioned upthread. I don’t think any of those efforts made it to the auto import stage.

Re: Show HN: I made a super simple iOS app to track expenses

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Post by vxNsr »

bg0 wrote: post #35
graeme wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try Lunch Money. Great multi currency support. https://lunchmoney.app/ It doesn’t work for my brain but ynab also supports multicurrency.

That's what I use but their bank connections are so hit or miss and they always blame it plaid which is not the case. I'll give YNAB a go

As far as I know YNAB doesn’t support multi currency out of the box. There does appear to be a “blessed” 3rd party plugin so you could try that.

Re: Show HN: I made a super simple iOS app to track expenses

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Post by jmathai »

wingerlang wrote: post #49
jmathai wrote: post #26

Congrats on the launch. I don’t know how folks manage to consistently budget if they have to enter transactions manually. After trying a bunch of overly complex budgeting apps like ynab - I wrote one for my wife and I (it used to be open for others). https://fiers.co/features/spend I’m using a developer plaid account (free) to download transactions. Works pretty well - we are goin on 4 years of budgeting and it’s bee…

The frontpage isn't really clear. Not sure what the red circles have to do with the text. The screenshots barely show anything, and I am inclined to believe the app is more of a financial independence calculator than expense tracker? Sure there is some overlap but I'm still confused.

There's a financial independence forecast that is separate from the budgeting app. The site is more focused on the forecast tool.

What I came to learn was that the forecast was predicated on having a predictable outflow of expenses which is what led us to start budgeting - hence the app, after a bit of research [1].

[1] https://fiers.co/article/building-a-simple-budgeting-tool-as...

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