Show HN: My collection of web-apps that I'm finally comfortable in sharing

I made these for personal use and have been working on them for about a year. I always feel like my apps are incomplete but I think they are functional in their current form. I appreciate any feedback/criticism.

E2V: I use this to get calls when one of my servers go down and whenever my PayPal account is hit. It's a little difficult to setup for regular users (email filters aren't commonly used) but it is pretty reliable. It uses Twilio and Cloudmailin.net. I just created an HN coupon for 5 additional calls: https://zetabee.com/e2v/?coupon=hackernews

Text: I use this constantly to note down and plan everything. E.g. here's how I note down random ideas: https://zetabee.com/text/share?n=1058338736&h=MU54djV5VF...

CashFlow: This app enabled me to plan my departure from my old job without going into a financial crisis. It has a slight learning curve but once you get used to it, you can plan your finances very easily. I run hypothetical scenarios with my wife all the time - can we afford a house worth X in October? Should she switch to part time and get a 2nd contract? How much can we spend on a vacation and when?

Really great stuff.

I don't suppose you are looking for a job?

Funny that no one has mentioned E2V. It's the only one that hit the 'I wanted to do that' criteria for me. I think the lesson is that you need to work hard to educate your user to get it to catch on. Think of specific killer use cases. I would recommend going to the nearest business school during interview season and posting a bunch of flyers that say something like "We'll call you when you get the email that's going to change your life". Maybe target med school applicants similarly, anyone who's checking their email every 5 minutes waiting for the big one. Don't target developers, they already know how to forward emails to text message. This is also the easiest to monetize without charging. If people give you 5 email addresses, the domains may well give you insight into what they care about most. Targeting advertising rocket fuel (applying to Goldman, are we?).

These are really awesome, thanks for sharing. Expecially liking Cash Flow, though I have two feature requests:

* I'd like to plan multiple scenarios at once, so the ability to save, create new and duplicate different cash flows would be useful.

* I'd like the ability to move multiple rows at once quicker.

* I'd like you to monetise this so I don't feel guilty requesting things, I'd happily pay an upfront fee (pinboard.in style?).

Thanks!

Chime, I admire and thank you for letting the HN community take a look at your creations. As a developer, I know I am sometimes reluctant to let my peers see what I'm working on. I really like the simplicity of TEXT and can't wait to try out Email to Voice. I'm about to launch a public application that I have been working on for about a year and will set up a filter to have Email to Voice call me when someone signs up! Here's to hoping my phone rings a lot, and to your continued hacking and success.

Text is incredible. It is simple, unobtrusive and everything just works the way one would expect it to. I know how hard it is to design something as clean, simple and functional as Text, so - Great job, Chirag. Thank you for sharing this, made my day.

Chime,

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Thanks for sharing! The apps look great and work like I would expect them to.

You've also reinforced the notion that "ideas are worthless, execution is everything". I have had a near mirror of your CashFlow screen on my home office whiteboard since November. I kept saying, "I'll work on that after this semester.." or "I'll focus on that after this major project wraps up at work.." now I find myself saying, "Guess I'll use CashFlow by chime!"

I poked around ZetaBee Text for the last 5 minutes and am getting excited. I liked the concept, but not the keyboard shortcut style of workflowy.com. This is way closer.

The "How This Works" section is great. I got moving fast.

One gripe (or perhaps an oversight). I can ctrl + select a lot of lines, but I can't delete them. I think the concept here is that I can just collapse things, which mostly I'd do, but there are times when only delete will do and I don't see a way to accomplish this task.

Specifically, I renamed the first sheet "HowItWorks" in an attempt to keep the instructions in case I forget. I went to delete the two example sections below and could not.

Dang - you're an app churning machine! I just looked at your profile and checked out all your projects....WOW! Talk about some achievements.

GREAT JOB with these apps! I especially like Text and CashFlow. Very, very usable.

Thank you for putting this together. Cashflow is brilliant. I've always been looking for cashflow functionality in online personal finance apps like Mint/LoveMoney/WeSabe etc, but this app does exactly what i need it to do.

The best bit is, i always struggle to put my own spreadsheet together to workout the cashflow, so for people like me who need help with the underpinnings, this is a great solution.

Thanks again

Text request: Ability to cross items off, sometimes I want to mark things as done but not totally erase their history. This allows me to review my progress at the end of the week etc and its also fairly satisfying to see stuff that you've completed. Add this as an option if you're worried about feature bloat.

Email To Voice request: Support for UK phone numbers, happy to pay extra for this.

These are great! Specifically Cash Flow. I've often wished I had an app on had to see what my cash flow will look like in 20 days, or 30.

Wow I was just thinking I needed something similar to your text app earlier. That is perfect! Cashflow will be handy too!

Thanks a lot.

EDIT: Is there an option to clear a whole sheet? and in the cashflow, you only allow the american format of dates.

Oh and with cashflow, how is someone meant to handle long term use? Update their own balance?

Very nice apps. I like the simplicity and focus. I can definitely see myself using these, especially the cash flow app.

Text is really a great lightweight outliner implementation.

Indenting works for multiple rows at once, but moving them up/down does not. This would be a key feature for reorganizing nested outline sections.

Also, since I just used the demo, does sharing allow others to edit or only to view?

Text is impressive. That's exactly how I write freeform notes in my text editor. Not sure if I could get used to using a web app for this, but I might give it a try. I think perhaps the toolbars are a bit distracting - a more minimalistic design would be suitable for this kind of application.

These are really nice and I like the style, I'm particularly impressed with the cash flow one.

I would even say you're too harsh on yourself in thinking your apps are incomplete, compared to many other freely available web apps I'd say they're actually very well rounded.

These are really great apps. I especially like Cashflow and Text.

I'm not sure how many times I've recreated a similar spreadsheet that I was never quite satisfied with and never did the awesome that you've implemented in Cashflow.

Great work and thanks for sharing.

Looks great. I especially like Text. An export option would be great (maybe .org, .md and pdf).

Great stuff.

How about using the pricing model of pinboard.in for each app? I'd sign up :)

Just tried ZetaBee Text, it's really great! Switched from WorkFlowy.

Feedback:

1. Why you have to limit length of the title?

2. Please add line-based bold, italic and color support. When list gets long I really needed them!

Just spent a couple minutes in CashFlow and I'm looking forward using it more. I set up an account with Mint a while ago hoping I could do something similar but this is just so much better for what I wanted to do.

Excellent.

Interested in what you think is the next level for these apps.

EDIT: I should have said "next step" instead of "next level"

Excellent work Chime. Do you have any plans to try and generate income from your apps, or are they just a fun side project?

I love CashFlow and Text. Many places pay bi-weekly, so you might want to add that to your frequency drop down list.

Good on you for launching. Congratulations, i hope you make a nice bit of money for your efforts :)

Thanks chime7, I really like your Text app and will have to go give CashFlow a try! Great work!

I really like these. Thank you for sharing.

Very nice! What did you use to build these?

Would like to hear from you how you could realize Zetabee alone through your blog chir.ag