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Show HN: Buckets, our family's simple budgeting tool

1 points| iffycan | 11 years ago |bucketsisbetter.com

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[+] ansostuhmieng|11 years ago|reply
Enjoyed playing with it, but have a couple thoughts:

1. Monthly budgets may not work for everyone, if its easy I would add additional default time ranges for pay period management (2 week pay periods is common in many industries)

2. Your landing page shows support for multiple-category tracking, but I don't see how or where it is implemented.

3. Detail views don't appear to auto-sync with bucket changes while they are open.

4. I couldn't figure out how to set or add a description to bucket changes. Tried "20 safeway" but it just sat there. In addition, the bucket entry textboxes can't show enough data sometimes (180.00 gets cut off, for example, in the default make it rain).

5. Make it Rain! and Make it So! while fun were very confusing until I watched your video about their purpose.

6. Adding an account doesn't seem to add anything to the system.

7. Really like the total line at the bottom of the page and the animations/visuals that help show state changes, I think this and the simplicity are your main benefits.

Hope you find the comments useful.

[+] iffycan|11 years ago|reply
Thank you for the detailed feedback.

Re 1, what do you do? 2 week pay periods?

I'll work on 2-5.

What do you mean by 6? What did you expect to happen when you added an account?

Thanks!

[+] iffycan|11 years ago|reply
Any feedback you have about any aspect of this project is appreciated.