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Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

pseudometa wrote: post #15

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.

The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous. Anyone can make lots of crapy apps

You're being very mean towards a fellow human being who is likely still an active HN participant and might read your comment.

It's also mistaken. ~99.9% of people can't.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by allending »

mayrun wrote: post #42

Looks nice. Is there a plan to implement the option to password protect and export the data? Also, multiple currencies would be highly appreciated!

Data export is definitely on the horizon. Password protection is on the list, but not yet definite. We actually do support multiple currencies (we hope our users agree it is done in an elegant fashion, feedback welcome) - let us know if we are missing yours and we will get it in the next release.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by Zikes »

bkmartin wrote: post #40
cleaver wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I believe it was in Quicken, but the projected daily balance stuff is not in Mint. Its been something I've wanted and just started to write for myself. If I get to a point where I feel its actually useful for me, I'll consider doing something outward facing.

I use Mint and they're pretty close. They do have bill reminders with dollar estimates (for things that fluctuate, like electric/water), so it wouldn't be much of a stretch for them to add balance projections.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by mon22 »

dsk139 wrote: post #28
Zikes wrote: post #3

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…

There's an app for this. Dollarbird - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dollarbird-personal-finance/... it does exactly that for me. It does not tie to my bank account though it's all manual input (but you can schedule in recurring payments/income), which is actually good for me because I dislike miscategorizations

Is there an app that is also centered around events and trips? Most apps classify expenses as travel, food, lodging.

I want to see my transactions grouped by the excursions I've made to see which events I spent the most on.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by kohanz »

mapgrep wrote: post #37

How do I enter expenses? I was hoping the app description would tell me that. It doesn't seem to be on the web page or app store page. The pain of budgeting is in tracking outflows, at least for me. I make a combination of debit, credit, and cash purchases, and even just through those three channels it's easy to lose track of what went where. As you note in your app description, people typically give up "tracking exp…

Agree wholeheartedly. There are any number of apps out there than can provide me with beautiful graphs and visualizations once they have the data they need, but I don't use any of them. Why? Because:

1) The ones that collect the data automatically require me to violate my bank's online TOS to gather the data (e.g. Mint), which potentially leaves me with no recourse should my bank account be compromised.

2) The ones that require me to input the data are just too much work.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by weisser »

pseudometa wrote: post #15

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.

>The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous.

I'm pretty sure those were young kids. Sure, I've seen people complaining about those types of posts in the past but I think being negative about someone's desire to learn and (perhaps) eventually build something that solves real problems is a caustic attitude.

Re: Show HN: We made 1 app this year

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Post by chadcf »

kohanz wrote: post #48
mapgrep wrote: post #37

How do I enter expenses? I was hoping the app description would tell me that. It doesn't seem to be on the web page or app store page. The pain of budgeting is in tracking outflows, at least for me. I make a combination of debit, credit, and cash purchases, and even just through those three channels it's easy to lose track of what went where. As you note in your app description, people typically give up "tracking exp…

Agree wholeheartedly. There are any number of apps out there than can provide me with beautiful graphs and visualizations once they have the data they need, but I don't use any of them. Why? Because: 1) The ones that collect the data automatically require me to violate my bank's online TOS to gather the data (e.g. Mint), which potentially leaves me with no recourse should my bank account be compromised. 2) The ones t…

> The ones that require me to input the data are just too much work.

I've been using YNAB (You Need A Budget) for a few months, and it makes you input everything. I initially resisted and thought the same thing as you. However I forced myself to try it because so many people recommended it so highly.

It is at it's core a glorified spreadsheet, but it's a very well designed spreadsheet with great support and a solid budgeting methodology behind it. Entering transactions manually has not been that painful, and the big benefit of doing this is that you are actively participating with your budget. WIth mint you spend money and then see how it fits into your budget. With YNAB you give that dollar a job as soon as you get it, and you manually input it when you spend it. It really keeps you aware of your budget and where you are in it and in my experience makes it much easier to stick to it.

I found every time I tried to use Mint to budget (privacy issues aside) it never worked out because it was a very passive thing. Set up some categories. Spend money. Wait for email to tell me I'm over budget, oops.

YNAB is very active so it keeps you honest. And unlike mint, YNAB is designed to be a fluid budget. You can and are encouraged to adjust budget amounts and categories on the fly as life happens, which is something painful to do in mint or other apps.

It is a bit of a pain to have to manually handle transactions (though you can import CSV) but I find the benefits of doing that outweighs the hassle.

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