Products · Broad category
Budgeting apps
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 5 threads.
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No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Categorizing every transaction after spending is backwards for budgetingUnreviewed
20162026- Existing budgeting apps are annoying to use2024-07-05
- Categorizing and reconciling every transaction after spending is time-consuming and backwards for budgeting2020-04-18
- Too complicated to use for budgeting2019-04-25
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Existing budgeting apps are annoying to use2024-07-05
- Categorizing and reconciling every transaction after spending is time-consuming and backwards for budgeting2020-04-18
- Too complicated to use for budgeting2019-04-25
- Unclear what the passphrase does and whether forgetting it locks you out2019-04-11
- Categorizing spending requires hours weekly of manual entry and fixing mislabeled items2016-09-14