Comment by resbaloso | Hacker News Reader

Comment by resbaloso | Hacker News Reader

When I search for "mint alternative", the first links are from reddit, which is pretty easy to spam.

The second looks like a parasite article. It is paid content from some Taboola company. It's difficult to tell who is making the money. Did some affiliate publisher pay for Taboola Turnkey to run their article on Time.com to take advantage of their domain authority? Or is Time.com itself making money off the affiliate links?

The ranking of their top product recommendation has switched between Empower (which pays at least $100 per lead), and Quicken. Currently Empower must be paying the most as it is listed as best, but a few weeks ago it was Quicken.

I'll be watching this keyword to see if the results page improves. Been really frustrated with Google results lately.

I heard all this hubbub about Mint going away, but I think it just rebranded. Now it’s part of the Credit Karma app and it still works, my accounts are all still there.

It reminds of the HBO/Max thing. Seems like a braindead decision to try to force all of your customers to install a new app to keep existing functionality. It’s like acquiring all your customers all over again. You’re bound to lose a bunch. Even if it’s downstream of some corporate reorganization, why not keep both apps around in the App Store and just update the branding? If there’s a technical migration happening, even if it’s a totally new code base, can you not ship that as an update and just exist in the App Store under multiple names?

I dunno. I switched over to https://lunchmoney.app/. But it was so frustrating wading through all the bad search results to find it.

Credit Karma seems to only have a tiny fraction of the functionality that Mint had.

JustEat (European food delivery app) did this right. They acquired a bunch of companies, pyszne.pl, takeout.com, whatever the German one was called, and just replaced all their apps with the one they already had. The branding stayed the same, the Polish app for example is still called pyszne.pl and the JustEat branding is completely absent here, but all of these apps have the same UI and use the same backend. You can see this very clearly if you go to another country and open your local app, it's just going to work.

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