Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins

[EdJiang]

This integration is NOT SECURE.

Mint asks for your API key, which Coinbase implements rather poorly. Your API key will grant any application FULL ACCESS to your Coinbase account, so if Mint gets compromised, the attacker can send your Bitcoin to another account. And Bitcoin transactions are irreversible.

Yes, you do give Mint your bank account credentials, but if someone steals your username/password and use it to send a transaction, you can get it reversed.

Mint can easily fix this by using Coinbase's OAuth API instead of using an API Key, which allows for selective permissions (read-only) to be set.

[orblivion]

Why do they need Coinbase? Just give them your address, which is public information anyhow.

[peter_l_downs]

I wish they'd add support for not double-counting my credit card purchases instead.

[damon_c]

Ha, yes... and support for not counting money transferred from savings to checking as income would be nice too.

[astrange]

All JPY transactions in my paypal are reported 100x too large in USD ($525 per month recurring bills instead of $5.25).

I did report it once and got back a message saying "sorry, we can't fix your existing records", but they clearly made no attempt to fix it for new ones either.

[rogerbinns]

For me they seem very duplicate happy. I have to mark about 5 items per month (out of 20) as dupes.

[maguirre]

Along the same line of thought. How about a cash flow forecast?

[ry0ohki]

Quick plug, but https://www.BudgetSimple.com handles this correctly.

[tlrobinson]

Should read "Mint now supports tracking Bitcoins in your Coinbase account"

[etrain]

I like that they're still referred to as a "startup" even though they exited for $170m nearly 5 years ago.

[jonrussell]

good point, duly updated [author here]

[snitko]

I don't recommend anyone leaking info about the amount of Bitcoins you have or spend to any third party.

[lowglow]

Does anyone think there is room for a new mint-like service?

[maaku]

Yes, yes, and one more emphatic yes. Mint.com never satisfied my needs. I'd like a double-entry ledger, and proper non-USD asset support[1] please.

[1] Not even GNU cash gets this right. See: http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html

[cddotdotslash]

If you're serious about financial tracking and don't mind paying $100 a year, there's a site called PocketSmith [0] that's a beautiful, clean, and fuller-featured version of Mint. They have a free version but it only supports credit card accounts and 12 budget categories. I just started using it two days ago and it blew me away.

[0] http://pocketsmith.com

[imkevinxu]

I've been thinking about that for a while. Besides a different design and time to reach feature parity, what would be the "unique" thing to solve the problem of managing one's finances?

[_jsn]

Yes. There's a ton of room for innovation and I don't have a lot of faith in Intuit to do any of it. I feel like I'm constantly thinking of things I'd improve about Mint.

[ry0ohki]

Sorry to plug it twice in this thread, but I've launched one, https://www.BudgetSimple.com would love your feedback!

[livejamie]

http://check.me (formerly PageOnce) is doing good things in this space.

[cjrp]

One that supports England would be nice.

[esamek]

www.hellowallet.com

If anyone is interested in an account with us for user research, leave a reply. It's normally $100 a year. I'll circumvent that.

[deelowe]

YES! One for power users would be great.

[disdev]

Would be nice if they decided that cashflow forecasting (Microsoft Money and Quicken Online both did that well-ish) was important to add. That's the single reason I haven't gone with Mint.

[adaam2]

I think they should be focusing on opening Mint up into new markets (namely the UK) rather than this!