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Re: Open Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by npsimons » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 3:54 PM UTC

jeremysmyth wrote: post #3

First? What about http://www.gnucash.org/ or any of the others?

Came here to say exactly that. Kudos to the original author! But just having made this and open sourced it makes them awesome enough, they don't need to puff themselves up by using easily disproved superlatives.

Re: Open Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by RexRollman » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 3:55 PM UTC

Nice but I really dislike the website for this. I don't know if there is a term for that design but I hope it doesn't become popular.

Re: Open Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by forkrulassail » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

That title is such a lie.

Re: Open Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by Jake232 » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

michaelrhansen wrote: post #7

demo link appears to not work - blank screen

Also seeing this.

Google Chrome Version 31.0.1650.57 OS X

Re: Open Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by forkrulassail » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

RexRollman wrote: post #12

Nice but I really dislike the website for this. I don't know if there is a term for that design but I hope it doesn't become popular.

Same here, reminded me of this parody: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Re: Open Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by pistle » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

RexRollman wrote: post #12

Nice but I really dislike the website for this. I don't know if there is a term for that design but I hope it doesn't become popular.

Jeebus. This.

http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB0XLB528

ArE yOuR eYeS oVeRsTimUlAteD YET YET YETYET YET ETYET EYTYETYYETYYET???

Re: Open Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by antsar » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 4:10 PM UTC

pistle wrote: post #16

RexRollman wrote: post #12

Nice but I really dislike the website for this. I don't know if there is a term for that design but I hope it doesn't become popular.

Jeebus. This. http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB0XLB528 ArE yOuR eYeS oVeRsTimUlAteD YET YET YETYET YET ETYET EYTYETYYETYYET???

Can't quite tell whether the horrendous load time on this link is the HN effect or part of the design. Probably the latter.

Re: Open Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by josephagoss » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 4:13 PM UTC

I know this sounds pedantic and distracts from your software, but that's because the website really distracts. With any service or product, make the focus on that thing instead of the website taking the limelight, because even if it works you still steal focus.

Re: Open Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by iaskwhy » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 4:13 PM UTC

smackfu wrote: post #9

mason55 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah Mint has so many flaws and warts but without the backend integrations it would be very tough to create a competitor. There was a good article a couple of years back about why Wesabe lost to Mint[1], written by one of the Wesabe co-founders. The biggest issue according to him was that they chose to write their own integrations instead of partnering with Yodlee. Since that time, Mint has left the Yodlee platform,…

And Mint was purchased by Intuit, which already had the backend integrations for years due to Quicken.

Keep in mind Mint is somewhat restricted to US. There might be a market for similar apps for other regions.

Re: Open Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by nilkn » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 4:15 PM UTC

> So, would I give my bank credentials to a company of which business model is to sell its user's data?

I think this sentence is poorly written. I'd replace "of which" with "whose" and "user's" with "users'".