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Re: Show HN: Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)

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Post by wingerlang » Sun, Jun 22, 2014, 4:34 PM UTC

apas wrote: post #42

Seems very nice (congrats on shipping!) but for the love of god please change the app icon.

I am not very capable with designing icons.

Re: Show HN: Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)

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Post by wingerlang » Sun, Jun 22, 2014, 4:36 PM UTC

jedmeier wrote: post #39

This looks great. Works well and very simple to use. What about a way to take photo of the receipt?

Again I've thought about that but I am not sure how I will do it in regards to the data, which is in CSV format.

Each entry does have a unique UNIX timestamp, I might just drop all receipts in a folder and have the names of them linked to the timestamp.

How does that sound?

Re: Show HN: Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)

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Post by wingerlang » Sun, Jun 22, 2014, 4:41 PM UTC

larrywallace wrote: post #38

This app looks great, but the only negative for me is that it does offer the ability to take a camera snapshot of a real receipt. Some other apps have this receipt snapshot feature, but not the simplicity of your app. For me this snapshot feature alone would complete the perfect app in this category, and for this reason alone I am holding off on the purchase.

Well the app is free with a small in-app unlock for (atm) Dropbox, unlimited tags and the different colors.

Anyway, I posted a comment about the snapshot here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7928331

Re: Show HN: Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 1:08 AM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #9

elitrium wrote: post #6

One of the first things I did after installing, is turned off the notifications and badge icon in iOS settings. It doesn't look like this can be changed within the app. It only provides the option of changing the content that's displayed. This was an initial turn off for me, but other than that I'm really happy with this!

I am not sure what you mean, could you explain further?

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Re: Show HN: Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)

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Post by elitrium » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 1:15 AM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #9

elitrium wrote: post #6

One of the first things I did after installing, is turned off the notifications and badge icon in iOS settings. It doesn't look like this can be changed within the app. It only provides the option of changing the content that's displayed. This was an initial turn off for me, but other than that I'm really happy with this!

I am not sure what you mean, could you explain further?

My mistake, I actually installed the wrong app.

Re: Show HN: Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)

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Post by hrrsn » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 9:36 AM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #50

hrrsn wrote: post #36

Great looking app. I would use this so much if there was two way Dropbox sync.

I will definitely work on that as it is something I want too.

I'm mostly interested in that because I have a custom scraper script pulling data from my bank on a Raspberry Pi at home, adding two way sync would make it super useful.

Re: Show HN: Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)

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Post by aaronm14 » Tue, Jun 24, 2014, 1:41 AM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #10

aaronm14 wrote: post #5

Thanks for the write up, I enjoyed the explanation of even the little details throughout the app.

Glad you liked it! If you use RSS you can add this link [0]. I enjoyed writing this so I'll probably do it again when I finish any other projects. [0] http://jontelang.com/blog/feed.xml

Great, thanks, subscribed!