Show HN: Budgetable (It's better than Mint)

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You are planning to do an awful lot of stuff with my personal financial data. One of the nice things about Mint is their transparency as well as the control they give users over their own data.

I guess I'll be the first person to say that it looks really good. I can see how some folks might feel misled by the tag line, but even that's sort of a stretch (to me).

The landing page looks great. I did get the video bug, but that's small. Have you really done all this yourself? Looks like a TON of code.

I've also noticed Mint as being stagnant, specifically since Wesabe closed down and they were acquired, and have been hoping to see some sort of progress there. It isn't that it doesn't fully meet my needs, cause it does, but there are a TON of nice to haves that I want to see to make budgeting a lot easier that I have less and less hope of seeing with every day that passes without an update.

Can I ask what's on the roadmap?

Sure - and thanks for the comments/feedback. Yup, I built Budgetable by myself over the past year or so... I do UI and backend work so it worked out well.

I really tried to focus on making budgeting work.. to be honest, it was a very difficult task.. it's just a difficult problem to solve across the board (i.e., something that works for most people).

After getting through the beta, my focus will be on mobile.

Thanks for the feedback -- like I said, the actual app is SSL, but you make a good point in that it's probably a good idea to have https for even the "static" landing pages.

Ryan,

Nice design. Just signed up for beta invite. Do you mind sharing your tech stack used for front-end and backend?