Kelly and I were talking this weekend about budgets, and why they were so hard to make. Primarily the problem is that budgets attempt to impose a limit on certain types of spending, and at the same time, people generally don’t have a very clear picture of where their money is going.
As a fun experiment, we talked about creating a small web application to help people figure out where their money goes. The key factor to drive it would be simplicity and ease of use. Using Rails it came together pretty quickly over the weekend and I’ve already started using it.
The key features:
- Completely web based
- In place editing for all fields
- Track your expenses by month
- Tag your expenses by category
- Generate reports at any time for the current month
- Free to use
To get started, head over to Glued To My Money and register for an account.
It’s still pretty basic, but it should work fairly well. Here’s what I would like to do in the near future:
- Add export to CSV / Excel feature
- Add SSL to the web server
- Integrate AmCharts to visualize spending trends
If you sign up and enjoy it (or not), please let me know . I would love feedback.
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