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This could be an excellent opportunity to start a competing outfit. I bet Inuit will have choked on Mint by the time a new competitor is launched.
by falsestprophet 17y ago
This could be an excellent opportunity to start a competing outfit. I bet Inuit will have choked on Mint by the time a new competitor is launched.
- tonystubblebine 17y agoThere is a good competitor, Wesabe. Disclosure: I helped get that product launched and still have some stock. They have many of the same features, are catching up in the polish area, and have a strong data privacy angle.
- jrbedard 17y agoThere's also http://www.buxfer.com http://www.buxfer.com, a YC company.
- mingdingo 17y agoTalk about not giving up- the Buxfer guy just keeps going. Anybody know how Buxfer is doing?
- thaumaturgy 17y agoNice, I like this one better already. For one, it has more options for getting bank account information -- including doing it manually if necessary.
- ckinnan 17y agoUnlike Mint, the Buxfer name is terrible. Like a combination of "busted" and "fked", not associations want with my money. The "bucks for" association does not come through online and is too clever by half. Of course I wish them well-- hopefully the Mint sale will give them a good valuation and they can upgrade the domain name.
- cdr 17y agoWesabe is not a good competitor IMO. When it first released it had a lot of promise (philosophy of data freedom, etc). Unfortunately that's pretty much completely been lost, which I guess to some extent because some of it was too hard to be realistically accomplished with limited resources and time (pulling your account data with software controlled by you rather than giving Wesabe your account password). The core app itself has gotten continually worse. The "v2" that launched some months ago now was less usable, removed functionality (which may have been restored by now to some extent), was full of bugs, and was glacially slow and balky. The only possible draw for Wesabe over Mint is the "community" part, which never interested me. I guess I really see Wesabe as a money-management community with an app attached, not as a money-management app.
- tonystubblebine 17y agoI thought the same thing at the beginning of the v2 release, but the features that were important to me came back quickly. There's something pretty nice about seeing your accounts aggregated in one place and then being able to tag them. Mint did a great job, but I always preferred to have my financial data stored with people I trust, even if sometimes the software was rough around the edges (hey, it's a startup!).
- quellhorst 17y agoThis line of thinking is what spawned 100 me too YouTube clones.