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I continue to work on My Financé, my personal finance tool.

I’ve been struggling to find substantive traction, so I’m trying to niche down to make the tool really helpful for people who want to quit their jobs.

I built a rudimentary planning and forecasting engine, and am trying to run paid ads to see if the signals resonate with people. I don’t love ads, but maybe trying to understand them will further inform my opinion on them.

One thing I would love to come up with is a way to make the app fully local first, while continuing the ability to sync accounts via plaid. It would be great to not be able to see people’s data at all. Im trying to figure out if there is a good user experience I could provide while minimizing the amount of data I actually have access too. Maybe this feature won’t matter to my primary customers though, I’m not really sure.

I still have a ton of fun working on it, and if it never really makes any money I consider it a great success for my personal learning.

Link for the curious:

https://myfinancereport.com/

I climb a lot! (Actually currently sitting on Big Sur ledge on el cap posting this). It cuts into my free time programming for sure, but imo super worth it! Enjoy it, it’s a wonderful hobby.

Yeah it was meant to be along the lines of:

My Financé, because you should love your finances.

To your point, I think it’s hard to notice the spelling, and hard to figure out how to pronounce it.

It also is the same spelling as My Finance, which is tricky to rank for on Google.

Overall, it seems like it has potential to be a fun brand, but the constant confusion has led me to strongly consider a “rebrand”.

In my free time I’m still working on My Financé (I keep getting feedback this name is confusing), which is a fairly undifferentiated personal finance tool.

It’s a labor of love, but I love it!

I’m currently building a simulation engine that lets you forecast your spending, build scenarios (like taking a year off, getting a cat, move to a new city, etc based on your current spending patterns and assets.

https://myfinancereport.com/

It’s great fun to have a project of one’s own to just toil away on.

Yeah I noticed that as well! Makes sense that it’s a pretty “front and center” problem for a lot of people.

I’m working on a parser + dashboard for bank / cc / investment statements.

You feed in your docs and you get a dashboard that shows your categorized “flow” of money (think sankey, stacked bar), as well as some simple grouping tools (Show me all grocery spends on my credit card by month.

I initially wrote it in Haskell, but I don’t really know Haskell and I didn’t feel very productive with the stack, so I’m reworking it in something more familiar now.