How Mint is forcing me to Build in Public

I am leaning more towards gamifications and while I'm trying to look at the interest around most age groups the initial Idea was for a younger audience and with this, it was part reason why I wanted to focus manual entry (the idea of being involved with the entries and tracking your mood along the way intrigued me. I was thinking journal + bank + task management app).

With regards to the automation, the intention was to move towards that and have almost a sidecar or agent that tracks and guides autonomously. For me this is more hands off, but I was overthinking around the legal and security on data and pulling personal information (being new to it and the data persistence and ramifications that come along when not don't correctly). I wanted to be more aware of when I am doing it so taking it a little slower but ultimately this is an ideal too. Integrations was a middle ground for me initially till then to allow other so get a way to integrate their tooling outside with the application and with this if the banking providers support giving you a means to still connect data in that way without the need to have me need to integrate it initially.

I am doing testing with a small group mainly around validation and trying to use words in a way to describe and the development is still underway but the landing page I was using as interest to decide how far outside of the personal circle I was going to use this for. Mainly because I have noticed way too many conversations around money in a light that I believe is solved with better habits. So, you project resonates with me as well!

I am going to start spending the rest of the week biting the bullet and looking at some Reddit communities, I am going in with the idea of trying approach as something niche, authentic and useful to lifestyle habits in a better way. Thank you for the tips!

I followed you and your projects, let's keep in touch and look forward to seeing you trend upwards as you do!

@johnmarkbeaty, exactly! The family set up with the option of sharing responsibilities with different % is what I mean. I use an app called Tricount with my wife. Simple, but efficient.

Having users with concrete purchase interest for different financial products can be monetised eventually.

I do not know what to say about the Mint page, I have seen this sort of strategies before. However, I believe that ultimately Balance wants to be seen as an unique product without (publicly) looking at other competitors. But again, I don't have a clear answer here.

It was just a lot of work to always get the phone out and type something in immediately and then not getting an "easy" overview.
Most apps do too many things, that I as a user don't need.
So I prefer simple apps with less but clear functionality, that's also what my focus is on all the apps I am building.
Currently I have my monthly fixed costs in a Google sheet and then I at least have a general overview.
What i also would like to be able is to share costs and infos with my wife, so we have our separate overviews and a joint overview. Not sure in detail how that should look like though.
Your homepage looks nice and clean, just the last paragraph on mobile is a lot of text that doesn't look too pretty. ("It's so simple anyone can use...")
Easiest way to connect with me is via discord (kirbby)