Personal Finance Apps Doomed?

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Hey Andrew, I've read through you post, from "I'm not an accountant" to acomplishing financial goals and when I reached "getting your spouse on board" I was excited because that's the web-app I'm working on :)

It's still early days for my app and it is rough because, you know, programmer-art, but it's great to see I'm not the only one with these problems.

Re the financial goals, I have one simple feature on that now, but with more data I see good results with R's forecast library and Excel's Goal Seek isn't such a bad idea either. My own calculations on paper often started with "how much money do I need by the end of each upcoming month".

I know EXACTLY how you feel about the programmer-art. It's been years from the initial concept to trying to make something happen... but then there might be something already out there. For example, I was about to build my own offline maps app until I came across one that was reasonably priced and well-equipped. Everyone I talked to would definitely eat up this app concept if it came to fruition.

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