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

59 points by wingerlang 12y ago

wingerlang 12y ago
So I've been working with iOS for over a year. Some employed time, freelance and I've hung around a lot in the jb-community. Despite that I did not have one finished application of my own, lots of prototypes, but nothing in the App Store. So this is my first one, it is highly targeted to me, which you will notice if you read some of the text in the link. But I hope it is also something others will like. Link to app in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spendy/id872831308?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spendy/id872831308?mt=8 Anyway, I thought I'd just post it here because why not.
- mewwts 12y ago
  I like it a lot! Will definitely give it a spin.
  - wingerlang 12y ago
    Thanks! Let me know if you've got any feedback (my email is at the bottom of the posted link)
- kator 12y ago
  IMHO this should be product rule #1 - BE THE USER, if you can't then do everything you can to be as close as possible. When I started in tech people would say "Hey I need a database" and I'd say "Nope, teach me how to do the job you need done as if I you were going to hire me". Then a couple of days later I'd say "You need a _____ system and yea we'll use a database to save some of the data". Basically if you don't live the product you don't really understand the users and you spend all your time wasted guessing what they need and want. I applaud you for "highly targeted to me". This is the first and best step towards a product that you really understand and one that others "like you" will find useful.
  - wingerlang 12y ago
    > Be the user I actually have a couple of more products that I made to scratch my own itches, so I definitely agree with this.
- bitserf 12y ago
  Good job shipping! This was the kind of app I first worked on as well, but I never ended up putting it on the store, and kind of lost interest halfway through porting it to iOS 7 :) The Add Transaction screen was pretty much where I lived in my app (http://imgur.com/DobW80r http://imgur.com/DobW80r), so good work keeping it simple and efficient! Some feedback: * Might be worth making the user's current currency (you can get it from NSLocale) the default currency so that out of the box on first use they can start entering data, it's not great to have to go to settings first time you use it. * If you must stick with hamburger menu, consider making the view tappable everywhere and not just on the hamburger icon, to dismiss it. Though I would argue it's worth using something like UITabBar to switch between log and charts if charts is something you use a lot. * When tapping on a transaction to bring up the context buttons, consider allowing tapping anywhere on the screen to dismiss it, not just on cells. * Consider a custom input view for the amount field, here's an example of what I did for my app (http://imgur.com/yp27cxK http://imgur.com/yp27cxK), gets rid of the ugly "dialer" style ABC/DEF/GHI annotations. More maintenance though. * Understand its for you mainly, but tag editing would be nice :) * When you have a couple of thousand transactions in there (I had 20,000), being able to quickly whip up some adhoc queries for interesting stats becomes a lot easier if you have an SQL backed data model, and I used SQLite+transactions just because I was paranoid of some stupid bug corrupting all the data. Knowing myself, I would delete an app the first time it lost any data. However, long term, I think the solution for this kind of app is direct integration with banks (one of the reasons I lost interest, because I started getting super tired of typing in the data on a phone)! Best of luck, and keep on iterating! Never forget what the first version of popular slick apps looked like, a lot of them were pretty basic.
  - wingerlang 12y ago
    I hadn't thought about the NSLocale but that sounds like something that would suit well, especially since another guy mentioned the currency at "first launch". Tag editing is something which is in the works. I use, as you might read, a plain text file now. But I do miss writing queries and I am looking at SQLite. I've mentioned this a couple of times now, but where I'm from we don't have bank APIs. But I wish we did. I kind of like manually entering things though, keeps my mind on "what am I spending money on". Anyway thanks for the feedback. EDIT: Saw your input view and that does look nice, especially the + - buttons, smooth. I might implement this actually. It has happened once or twice that I wanted to do some addition.
- deleted 12y ago
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aaronm14 12y ago
Thanks for the write up, I enjoyed the explanation of even the little details throughout the app.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  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 http://jontelang.com/blog/feed.xml
  - aaronm14 12y ago
    Great, thanks, subscribed!
elitrium 12y ago
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!
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I am not sure what you mean, could you explain further?
  - deleted 12y ago
    [deleted]
  - elitrium 12y ago
    My mistake, I actually installed the wrong app.
philiphodgen 12y ago
Downloaded. Entered my first transaction. I like the fact that it attempts to do only one thing. Simple is good.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  That's what I was going for so that's good to hear, thanks.
markdown 12y ago
I miss these Show HN project writeups. They're what drew me to HN in the first place, but these days I'm lucky to see one good one per week. Excellent work, OP. It looks like you're a unicorn.. or could be one with a bit more design polish :)
- wingerlang 12y ago
  Thanks, and I am definitely trying with the designing. It's reealllyy hard!
- encoderer 12y ago
  I posted one this week with a partner (we were pleased with the results, though it was hard to stay on the front page for more than an hour). I think a weekly Show/Ask HN roundup post could be really helpful.
j-rom 12y ago
This looks pretty cool. One question though: Is the "Tap again to confirm" button active before the animation ends? For example, what if the user accidentally double taps the delete button?
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I just tried it a couple of times and it appears it is not active while animating, which is good. EDIT: It appears the method I use disables gestures by default. Semi relevant stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7337363/how-to-recognize-tap-gesture-while-a-view-is-animating http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7337363/how-to-recognize-...
vmiroshnikov 12y ago
Take a look at http://coinkeeper.me/ http://coinkeeper.me/
- wingerlang 12y ago
  Neat. Although it seems, after a download, that it is also a budgeting tool. It greets me with "how much do you want to spend each month" and have balances for accounts. While I can definitely see why people want this, I don't. I just want to track my expenses. I will play around with it some more though, it looks like a fresh take on the app types. Is it yours?
  - vmiroshnikov 12y ago
    I'm not the owner, but I like that app. I think its possible to just track your expenses, but its impossible to take money from "nowhere" so you have to have at least one account. In this case you'll have negative balance on that account which will be set to 0 each month. As for "How much do you want to spend each month", its not mandatory but gives a new user an idea how to use all app features.
8ig8 12y ago
Excellent overview. I love these. One feature I may have missed is reconciliation. That is, some way to review my manually entered transactions with statements provided by my bank.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I just mentioned this to someone in an email. I am not from the US, so the bank providing an API is very foreign to me. Anyone else from Sweden here? Do we have something like this that I do not know of? But the gist of it, unless I am misunderstanding something, is that I cannot implement it (bank integration).
  - tobbel 12y ago
    Swede here. As far as reconciliation goes, from my understanding it's basically just making sure whatever's listed in the app and what's on your internetbank matches up. YNAB does this quite well, letting you edit transactions if something does not match, and marking a post as reconciled (i.e. it matches up to your bank statement). Good summation here: http://www.youneedabudget.com/support/article/how-to-reconcile http://www.youneedabudget.com/support/article/how-to-reconci... Also, we went to school together :) Good job on the app, congrats on HN first page!
    - wingerlang 12y ago
      I see, I skimmed the article and I guess that's something to look into further, thanks for the link. And tjenare ^^ Hope all is well man
abhididdigi 12y ago
Is there an API exposed? BTW, I'm loving this app! Thanks!
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I am not even sure how or what that would be used or even done. Like "open in .." stuff? Or could you give me some example or use cases? I like the sound of an API!
jak1192 12y ago
Great app, I've been looking for a simple, bare bones budget tracking app. I think you need to fix the flow for the first time users. If every first time user must add a currency, why not have first time user screen be the add currency screen? Also, the add currency screen should have suggestions. It wasn't initially clear that I needed to type 'USD' instead of 'dollar'. It also wasn't clear that the currency needed to be in capital letters. I had usd in lowercase and clicking the check mark did nothing. There should at least be feedback. The app is great once getting past the first screen. Nice job.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I will take notes, I have been thinking about the "onboarding" process and I do agree with all of your feedback. Thanks.
johnpowell 12y ago
This is great and might just replace my trusty Moleskine.
cstrat 12y ago
Nice work. I have tried heaps of apps for this, 'cost' and 'spendee' are the ones I found to be the best so far. Will give yours a try soon.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  Those are the ones I liked the most also! But not enough to keep me away from Xcode. Let me know what you think.
kiriappeee 12y ago
It is so refreshing to see a genuine writeup about a project that's still in the works as opposed to a fully done bootstrap page that's more part of a marketing campaign than an actual effort to share and exchange info. Kudos to you. I love the idea and I totally get the problem here because there's not a single app on android that actually looks good and stays minimal. Keep on polishing! :)
kylec 12y ago
I almost closed the tab when I saw the screenshots of the "other apps". They all look pretty terrible and because I hadn't actually read anything on the page yet when I saw them, I assumed they were screenshots of your app. I would suggest that you lead with screenshots of your app, especially since it looks a lot nicer.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  Hm, maybe I should yes. Glad you scrolled down though^^ Thanks for the feedback.
brianwillis 12y ago
I've been using the YNAB[1] app for expense tracking, and I'm pretty happy with it. It has a nice feature where it records the retailer's location using the iPhone's location services, so when you enter new transactions for a retailer you've been to before it can automatically guess the payee and category. After a week or two, the app had learnt the payees I used the most, so entering transactions became super fast. The downside with YNAB is that you must sync it with a desktop version of their app. The iOS/Android apps are free, but only support a small subset of the desktop app's functionality. With YNAB there's also a whole financial management system that they want you to buy into. It works well for me, but might not meet everyone's mental model of how personal finance should work. [1]: http://www.ynab.com/ http://www.ynab.com/
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I've heard a lot of good about YNAB, but I don't need something so extensive. I have had thoughts about the learning-thing but I hadn't thought about using location also, which sounds smart.
ragsagar 12y ago
I was looking for a similar app for android. Is there one?
- deet 12y ago
  I'd take a look at Financius (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.code44.finance https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.code44.fin...). The design is fairly clean and the development is done in the open, which is nice. I'm also working on something in a similar space. If you have specific needs I'd love to talk (see my profile).
- chrisfosterelli 12y ago
  I've been using Financisto (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.orangesoftware.financisto https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.orangesoftw...) for about two years now, and absolutely love it! A little rough on the eyes, but absolutely great in every other context. Free and OSS as well! :)
hrrsn 12y ago
Great looking app. I would use this so much if there was two way Dropbox sync.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I will definitely work on that as it is something I want too.
  - hrrsn 12y ago
    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.
larrywallace 12y ago
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.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7928331
jedmeier 12y ago
This looks great. Works well and very simple to use. What about a way to take photo of the receipt?
- wingerlang 12y ago
  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?
apas 12y ago
Seems very nice (congrats on shipping!) but for the love of god please change the app icon.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I am not very capable with designing icons.
paglia_s 12y ago
I don't have an iPhone so I can't try it but I read on the website "As you can see, there is no "exchange rate" here. I decided to keep as much data separated as possible since a user may want to change their currencies around." Not storing the exchange rate if the rate changes a lot don't you risk having a value that might not be correct? For example if my main currency is EUR and I store a transaction of 5 US $ with an exchange rate of 1€ = 1.3$ then if one week later it becomes 1€ = 2$.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I am aware of this and I am thinking of a solution for it. I might just add a "download rate history" into a map[date>rate] and do all calculations with that. And when exporting it would get correct values in the CSV.
jpb0104 12y ago
This is great. I built my own web app budgeting solution. I've been working on and personally using https://budgetmyway.com/ https://budgetmyway.com/ for a while now. I love budgeting. Looking for feedback.

59 points by wingerlang 12y ago

So I've been working with iOS for over a year. Some employed time, freelance and I've hung around a lot in the jb-community. Despite that I did not have one finished application of my own, lots of prototypes, but nothing in the App Store. So this is my first one, it is highly targeted to me, which you will notice if you read some of the text in the link. But I hope it is also something others will like. Link to app in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spendy/id872831308?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spendy/id872831308?mt=8 Anyway, I thought I'd just post it here because why not.

mewwts 12y ago
I like it a lot! Will definitely give it a spin.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  Thanks! Let me know if you've got any feedback (my email is at the bottom of the posted link)
kator 12y ago
IMHO this should be product rule #1 - BE THE USER, if you can't then do everything you can to be as close as possible. When I started in tech people would say "Hey I need a database" and I'd say "Nope, teach me how to do the job you need done as if I you were going to hire me". Then a couple of days later I'd say "You need a _____ system and yea we'll use a database to save some of the data". Basically if you don't live the product you don't really understand the users and you spend all your time wasted guessing what they need and want. I applaud you for "highly targeted to me". This is the first and best step towards a product that you really understand and one that others "like you" will find useful.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  > Be the user I actually have a couple of more products that I made to scratch my own itches, so I definitely agree with this.
bitserf 12y ago
Good job shipping! This was the kind of app I first worked on as well, but I never ended up putting it on the store, and kind of lost interest halfway through porting it to iOS 7 :) The Add Transaction screen was pretty much where I lived in my app (http://imgur.com/DobW80r http://imgur.com/DobW80r), so good work keeping it simple and efficient! Some feedback: * Might be worth making the user's current currency (you can get it from NSLocale) the default currency so that out of the box on first use they can start entering data, it's not great to have to go to settings first time you use it. * If you must stick with hamburger menu, consider making the view tappable everywhere and not just on the hamburger icon, to dismiss it. Though I would argue it's worth using something like UITabBar to switch between log and charts if charts is something you use a lot. * When tapping on a transaction to bring up the context buttons, consider allowing tapping anywhere on the screen to dismiss it, not just on cells. * Consider a custom input view for the amount field, here's an example of what I did for my app (http://imgur.com/yp27cxK http://imgur.com/yp27cxK), gets rid of the ugly "dialer" style ABC/DEF/GHI annotations. More maintenance though. * Understand its for you mainly, but tag editing would be nice :) * When you have a couple of thousand transactions in there (I had 20,000), being able to quickly whip up some adhoc queries for interesting stats becomes a lot easier if you have an SQL backed data model, and I used SQLite+transactions just because I was paranoid of some stupid bug corrupting all the data. Knowing myself, I would delete an app the first time it lost any data. However, long term, I think the solution for this kind of app is direct integration with banks (one of the reasons I lost interest, because I started getting super tired of typing in the data on a phone)! Best of luck, and keep on iterating! Never forget what the first version of popular slick apps looked like, a lot of them were pretty basic.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I hadn't thought about the NSLocale but that sounds like something that would suit well, especially since another guy mentioned the currency at "first launch". Tag editing is something which is in the works. I use, as you might read, a plain text file now. But I do miss writing queries and I am looking at SQLite. I've mentioned this a couple of times now, but where I'm from we don't have bank APIs. But I wish we did. I kind of like manually entering things though, keeps my mind on "what am I spending money on". Anyway thanks for the feedback. EDIT: Saw your input view and that does look nice, especially the + - buttons, smooth. I might implement this actually. It has happened once or twice that I wanted to do some addition.
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aaronm14 12y ago

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

wingerlang 12y ago
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 http://jontelang.com/blog/feed.xml
- aaronm14 12y ago
  Great, thanks, subscribed!

elitrium 12y ago

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!

wingerlang 12y ago
I am not sure what you mean, could you explain further?
- deleted 12y ago
  [deleted]
- elitrium 12y ago
  My mistake, I actually installed the wrong app.

philiphodgen 12y ago

Downloaded. Entered my first transaction. I like the fact that it attempts to do only one thing. Simple is good.

wingerlang 12y ago
That's what I was going for so that's good to hear, thanks.

markdown 12y ago

I miss these Show HN project writeups. They're what drew me to HN in the first place, but these days I'm lucky to see one good one per week. Excellent work, OP. It looks like you're a unicorn.. or could be one with a bit more design polish :)

wingerlang 12y ago
Thanks, and I am definitely trying with the designing. It's reealllyy hard!
encoderer 12y ago
I posted one this week with a partner (we were pleased with the results, though it was hard to stay on the front page for more than an hour). I think a weekly Show/Ask HN roundup post could be really helpful.

j-rom 12y ago

This looks pretty cool. One question though: Is the "Tap again to confirm" button active before the animation ends? For example, what if the user accidentally double taps the delete button?

wingerlang 12y ago
I just tried it a couple of times and it appears it is not active while animating, which is good. EDIT: It appears the method I use disables gestures by default. Semi relevant stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7337363/how-to-recognize-tap-gesture-while-a-view-is-animating http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7337363/how-to-recognize-...

vmiroshnikov 12y ago

Take a look at http://coinkeeper.me/ http://coinkeeper.me/

wingerlang 12y ago
Neat. Although it seems, after a download, that it is also a budgeting tool. It greets me with "how much do you want to spend each month" and have balances for accounts. While I can definitely see why people want this, I don't. I just want to track my expenses. I will play around with it some more though, it looks like a fresh take on the app types. Is it yours?
- vmiroshnikov 12y ago
  I'm not the owner, but I like that app. I think its possible to just track your expenses, but its impossible to take money from "nowhere" so you have to have at least one account. In this case you'll have negative balance on that account which will be set to 0 each month. As for "How much do you want to spend each month", its not mandatory but gives a new user an idea how to use all app features.

8ig8 12y ago

Excellent overview. I love these. One feature I may have missed is reconciliation. That is, some way to review my manually entered transactions with statements provided by my bank.

wingerlang 12y ago
I just mentioned this to someone in an email. I am not from the US, so the bank providing an API is very foreign to me. Anyone else from Sweden here? Do we have something like this that I do not know of? But the gist of it, unless I am misunderstanding something, is that I cannot implement it (bank integration).
- tobbel 12y ago
  Swede here. As far as reconciliation goes, from my understanding it's basically just making sure whatever's listed in the app and what's on your internetbank matches up. YNAB does this quite well, letting you edit transactions if something does not match, and marking a post as reconciled (i.e. it matches up to your bank statement). Good summation here: http://www.youneedabudget.com/support/article/how-to-reconcile http://www.youneedabudget.com/support/article/how-to-reconci... Also, we went to school together :) Good job on the app, congrats on HN first page!
  - wingerlang 12y ago
    I see, I skimmed the article and I guess that's something to look into further, thanks for the link. And tjenare ^^ Hope all is well man

abhididdigi 12y ago

Is there an API exposed? BTW, I'm loving this app! Thanks!

wingerlang 12y ago
I am not even sure how or what that would be used or even done. Like "open in .." stuff? Or could you give me some example or use cases? I like the sound of an API!

jak1192 12y ago

Great app, I've been looking for a simple, bare bones budget tracking app. I think you need to fix the flow for the first time users. If every first time user must add a currency, why not have first time user screen be the add currency screen? Also, the add currency screen should have suggestions. It wasn't initially clear that I needed to type 'USD' instead of 'dollar'. It also wasn't clear that the currency needed to be in capital letters. I had usd in lowercase and clicking the check mark did nothing. There should at least be feedback. The app is great once getting past the first screen. Nice job.

wingerlang 12y ago
I will take notes, I have been thinking about the "onboarding" process and I do agree with all of your feedback. Thanks.

johnpowell 12y ago

This is great and might just replace my trusty Moleskine.

cstrat 12y ago

Nice work. I have tried heaps of apps for this, 'cost' and 'spendee' are the ones I found to be the best so far. Will give yours a try soon.

wingerlang 12y ago
Those are the ones I liked the most also! But not enough to keep me away from Xcode. Let me know what you think.

kiriappeee 12y ago

It is so refreshing to see a genuine writeup about a project that's still in the works as opposed to a fully done bootstrap page that's more part of a marketing campaign than an actual effort to share and exchange info. Kudos to you. I love the idea and I totally get the problem here because there's not a single app on android that actually looks good and stays minimal. Keep on polishing! :)

kylec 12y ago

I almost closed the tab when I saw the screenshots of the "other apps". They all look pretty terrible and because I hadn't actually read anything on the page yet when I saw them, I assumed they were screenshots of your app. I would suggest that you lead with screenshots of your app, especially since it looks a lot nicer.

wingerlang 12y ago
Hm, maybe I should yes. Glad you scrolled down though^^ Thanks for the feedback.

brianwillis 12y ago

I've been using the YNAB[1] app for expense tracking, and I'm pretty happy with it. It has a nice feature where it records the retailer's location using the iPhone's location services, so when you enter new transactions for a retailer you've been to before it can automatically guess the payee and category. After a week or two, the app had learnt the payees I used the most, so entering transactions became super fast. The downside with YNAB is that you must sync it with a desktop version of their app. The iOS/Android apps are free, but only support a small subset of the desktop app's functionality. With YNAB there's also a whole financial management system that they want you to buy into. It works well for me, but might not meet everyone's mental model of how personal finance should work. [1]: http://www.ynab.com/ http://www.ynab.com/

wingerlang 12y ago
I've heard a lot of good about YNAB, but I don't need something so extensive. I have had thoughts about the learning-thing but I hadn't thought about using location also, which sounds smart.

ragsagar 12y ago

I was looking for a similar app for android. Is there one?

deet 12y ago
I'd take a look at Financius (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.code44.finance https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.code44.fin...). The design is fairly clean and the development is done in the open, which is nice. I'm also working on something in a similar space. If you have specific needs I'd love to talk (see my profile).
chrisfosterelli 12y ago
I've been using Financisto (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.orangesoftware.financisto https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.orangesoftw...) for about two years now, and absolutely love it! A little rough on the eyes, but absolutely great in every other context. Free and OSS as well! :)

hrrsn 12y ago

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

wingerlang 12y ago
I will definitely work on that as it is something I want too.
- hrrsn 12y ago
  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.

larrywallace 12y ago

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.

wingerlang 12y ago
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7928331

jedmeier 12y ago

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

wingerlang 12y ago
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?

apas 12y ago

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

wingerlang 12y ago
I am not very capable with designing icons.

paglia_s 12y ago

I don't have an iPhone so I can't try it but I read on the website "As you can see, there is no "exchange rate" here. I decided to keep as much data separated as possible since a user may want to change their currencies around." Not storing the exchange rate if the rate changes a lot don't you risk having a value that might not be correct? For example if my main currency is EUR and I store a transaction of 5 US $ with an exchange rate of 1€ = 1.3$ then if one week later it becomes 1€ = 2$.

wingerlang 12y ago
I am aware of this and I am thinking of a solution for it. I might just add a "download rate history" into a map[date>rate] and do all calculations with that. And when exporting it would get correct values in the CSV.

jpb0104 12y ago

This is great. I built my own web app budgeting solution. I've been working on and personally using https://budgetmyway.com/ https://budgetmyway.com/ for a while now. I love budgeting. Looking for feedback.