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Maybe I'm just ignorant but I never even heard of Wesabe until this HN post. I've been an unhappy Mint user for years though (I still argue Mint is nowhere near
by city41 16y ago
Maybe I'm just ignorant but I never even heard of Wesabe until this HN post. I've been an unhappy Mint user for years though (I still argue Mint is nowhere near as good as Microsoft Money was).
So if I'm representative of "average people", then lack of marketing may have been a folly too.
- hoop 16y agoI'm in the same boat as you. I'm a happy Mint user and had never, ever heard of Wesabe.
- mikeklaas 16y agoYes, this is equivalent to the statement "Mint succeeded and Wesabe failed", and not the reason it did. Mint reached probably an order-magnitude more people ultimately, so it isn't surprising that most of us haven't heard of wesabe.
- hoop 16y agoI disagree. I see mint reaching that "more people" as the reason why it succeeded, not a side effect