Hi HN!<p>Budgeting can often feel overwhelming, especially when just starting out. That's why I'm thrilled to share what I'm working on for the past month, Budget Kanban, a visual tool to easily manage project finances using Kanban boards.<p>With Budget Kanban, you gain:
1. Real-time visibility into each project's financial status: Keep track of your finances effortlessly, knowing exactly where each project stands financially.
2. Stress relief from having an organized and easily understandable financial overview: Say goodbye to financial chaos and hello to clarity and peace of mind.
3. Reduction of time spent on manual data entry and corrections: Streamline your workflow and spend less time on tedious tasks, allowing you to focus on what truly matters.
4. Enhanced ability to identify and rectify budget issues swiftly: Spot potential issues early on and take proactive measures to address them, preventing headaches down the road.
5. Increased accuracy in budget allocation and monitoring: Make informed decisions with confidence, ensuring your resources are allocated efficiently and effectively.<p>I'd love for you to give Budget Kanban a try and share your thoughts .<p>Have a fantastic day!
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This looks like way more work than just using a spreadsheet.<p>Kanban don’t seem like the right abstraction for financial planning.<p>How does this actually prevent budget overrun when nothing is automated? It seems like the data is only accurate if someone correctly enters it and drags the boxes into the appropriate columns.<p>The app looks nice, but this feels like a solution in search of a problem.<p>You could easily pivot to project management and you’d have a very nice looking product. Ditch the budget stuff, it doesn’t work.
I don't understand the problem this solves. It appears this is for a business to track project expenses? Don't businesses use actual accounting software to track expenses, etc.? How does this reflect or compete with that?<p>I don't think this makes any sense for personal finance.
I'd rather install software than 'sign up' to use something hosted elsewhere, especially for anything involving private information especially finances.
I like how this uses something familiar (Kanban) in a novel way to address the real-time tracking of a budget.<p>I wonder if maybe another useful feature would be to schedule a card to be automatically moved to another column at a certain date for things like contract fulfillment, or schedule a recurring card to be added each month for paychecks and monthly bills. Or is that already a feature? I could also see building upon that to see a rudimentary forecast of the state of finances at specified dates in time.
Loved the idea! Admit I should use for a while because it's unclear if it's really ergonomic, but overall super interesting. Congratulations on the launch!
Actually I could see this being very popular for wedding planning; something inherently collaborative, with clear categories, that people are actively trying to budget to a specific number. I mean yes, numerous spreadsheet templates exist for this, but you're basically selling a pleasant interface (it does look great!).<p>I have a harder time imagining this for business use cases, unless maybe you really focus on the approval/reimbursement flows.
Can you show a realistic example where folks have 20-50 items they are budgeting for monthly? I can't imagine it working for that kind of use case so I moved on
Seeing this just reminds me of how all software is ephemeral these days. It used to be that you would buy something like this for $20 at EggHead or MicroCenter and use it for the next thirty years without paying another dime. Useful. Now everything is cloud-subscription based. You play the good customer, pay for years, and then it closes down and you have nothing to show for it. Garbage. Excuse me while I slink back to my spreadsheet.
does anyone like YNAB or etc? I use a spreadsheet still and what I like about my setup is it not only projects cash over time by including known expenses and incomes over time, but adjustments so I can actively reconcile it as I move forward through time.<p>YNAB and other tools dont seem to help me there.
Well... Nice UI but... I track my finances with org-mode and Beancount/Fava for UI and well it's far more clear for me, not only because the current state of things but because the "new views" I can easily make.<p>Kanban was born to help mass produce mechanical parts, and for that's is very effective, but to follow or design things, like many do today, it's not good at all IMVHO...
I found the "Sign up for free" option too misleading for my preferences: it leads you to create a project, which immediately leads to a payment page. I guess I did "sign up for free", but I'm not sure what signing up got me.<p>Kudos on getting my email —— I hope I don't get any marketing materials I didn't consent to.
I signed up expecting to be able to at least give it a try for free but I was almost immediately shown a subscription plan change. Is there a way to delete my account?