Show HN: Buckets, our family's simple budgeting tool 11 years ago
I get paid 1st and 15th, my wife (RN) every 2 weeks.
Per 6: not sure what I expected, just didn't find a particular use for the function.
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Show HN: Buckets, our family's simple budgeting tool 11 years ago
Enjoyed playing with it, but have a couple thoughts:
1. Monthly budgets may not work for everyone, if its easy I would add additional default time ranges for pay period management (2 week pay periods is common in many industries)
2. Your landing page shows support for multiple-category tracking, but I don't see how or where it is implemented.
3. Detail views don't appear to auto-sync with bucket changes while they are open.
4. I couldn't figure out how to set or add a description to bucket changes. Tried "20 safeway" but it just sat there. In addition, the bucket entry textboxes can't show enough data sometimes (180.00 gets cut off, for example, in the default make it rain).
5. Make it Rain! and Make it So! while fun were very confusing until I watched your video about their purpose.
6. Adding an account doesn't seem to add anything to the system.
7. Really like the total line at the bottom of the page and the animations/visuals that help show state changes, I think this and the simplicity are your main benefits.
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I'm a Barbie Girl in a CS World 16 years ago
Questions for the author whom I presume is unavailable...
If it was clear to both parties that the other did not enjoy the same activities... why would you expect to be invited to those activities? Why would it bother you to not be invited to an activity you probably would not enjoy?
The only answer seems to be that she was lonely, so she put on a mask to fit in... not really surprising but seems a bit shallow and I can't imagine it really being personally fulfilling. Would not her time have been better sent seeking out those with whom she shares more common interests?
Hope I am not too badly missing the point.
Why would you ask Person A why Person B is not interested in a particular subject matter? Why not just go ask Person B?
Is there a good reason for this approach that I have missed? It seems to be a popular approach, but I don see the value in it. Anyone able to enlighten me?