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Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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There's a certain variety of budgeting I've yet to see, but that I think would be very valuable. It's something I'd pay a decent amount for, actually. The majority of my expenses and income are very predictable, such that I get paid every N days, I get billed X every Y days, etc. I would like to see an application that tracks my balance for every day, from now and into the future, such that I can see my predicted bal…

I've actually been building this the last few months. One of the subtleties are bills or payments that appear on weekdays only, or the nearest weekday to a given date. I'm being careful to handle all these edge cases.

I have pretty good credit card projections implemented as well, including the rules for computing minimum payments.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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There's a certain variety of budgeting I've yet to see, but that I think would be very valuable. It's something I'd pay a decent amount for, actually. The majority of my expenses and income are very predictable, such that I get paid every N days, I get billed X every Y days, etc. I would like to see an application that tracks my balance for every day, from now and into the future, such that I can see my predicted bal…

The banking startup simple has a feature like that called "Safe-To-Spend" https://www.simple.com/goals/

I just switched to simple, and am liking it so far. The design and functionality is, well, simple.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Could someone comment on this vs YNAB? With YNAB I have it hooked up on my desktop as well. How does this compare? I like the neat visuals, wish YNAB had those.

I think this would be good for planning your savings for future (forecasting), YNAB is about current and past budgeting (though there are ways around it (http://www.youneedabudget.com/support/article/forecast-in-yn...).

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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I love this. The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous. Anyone can make lots of crapy apps. Creating a well designed app with valuable functionality and propper marketing/support web pages takes time and skill.

Kudos.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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I love this. The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous. Anyone can make lots of crapy apps. Creating a well designed app with valuable functionality and propper marketing/support web pages takes time and skill. Kudos.

Agreed. But I will be curious to see who is making more money in a year.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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> Requires Android

> 4.0 and up

This cuts out pretty big portion of the userbase, doesn't it? Around 25% according to developers' dashboards[1].

I'm also interested in how this makes money? Or how it could make money. I'm not sure ads are viable alternative for apps you don't need to engage a lot with (i.e. games, readers, ..).

1. http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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There's a certain variety of budgeting I've yet to see, but that I think would be very valuable. It's something I'd pay a decent amount for, actually. The majority of my expenses and income are very predictable, such that I get paid every N days, I get billed X every Y days, etc. I would like to see an application that tracks my balance for every day, from now and into the future, such that I can see my predicted bal…

I'm nearly positive I've seen that in Microsoft Money, and pretty sure I've also seen it in Mint.

I think I recall that feature in Quicken, although I've long since sworn off using products from Intuit.
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