The grass is always greener
Posted by Gavin Bowman on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 9:47 AM
This is a great post on the Web Worker Daily:-
Is the Grass Really Greener on the Web Worker’s Lawn?
Amazing, I feel like I could have written almost every word.
Aside: Mint (via Okdork) looks impressive and appealing, I'd be interested to hear what Micro ISVs with, or working on, personal finance/money management software think about it. Obviously it won't take away the security/privacy conscious people who want to have all their data on their own PC only, but the incentive of not having to input (or pay) anything must be a massive draw for any casual user who just wants to know what they're spending.
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There was another Web 2.0 budgeting software that was similar to this but not quite as powerful... unfortunately I can't find it, but tons of people sent me it because of my work on BudgetSimple. Both are pretty impressive, but I'm leery of even providing Facebook with my Gmail password, so I can't imagine giving these sites all my financial data.
And the "grass is always greener" is spot on. I worked from home for two years and the only way I stayed sane was that I had an unemployed roommate who kept me company. I'm really not interested in doing that again for long!
>security/privacy conscious people who want to have all their data on their own PC only
I think you may have misunderstood what mint is. It does look impressive, but it only deals with information that is already online.
You give it your logon information to all your credit cards and bank accounts and it grabs their data every night, draws nice charts and looks for better interest rates.
It does not appear to be an online Quickbooks.
I think I roughly understood what Mint was, but maybe I didn't fully consider how much people get out of something like QuickBooks for their personal finances :).
I can see how it would be a limitation if you can't enter any additional information beyond what is already online.
Thanks for pointing that out.
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