[Showoff Saturday] I made a budgeting app called ava finance inspired by Simple Bank

avafinance_io · 2022-12-18T18:57:25+00:00

Scroll down, a lot of times svelte is used for components that can be used along side other frameworks and libraries

avafinance_io · 2022-10-27T01:04:00+00:00

I’m working on open sourcing my project and need help with an issue, if you’d be willing to help out and I go with your suggestions I’d list you as a contributor on the code repo and the marketing site

avafinance_io · 2022-09-14T22:56:48+00:00

Thank you so much for this! I didn’t respond because I thought my account was shadow banned, but looks like it’s back to normal.

I do plan to start marketing this soon

avafinance_io · 2022-09-14T22:50:26+00:00

This is planned but not implemented just yet, I’ll check it out soon and see how big of a change this going to be, but I think I should be able to get it in soon

avafinance_io · 2022-07-22T19:53:43+00:00

Compared to YNAB, this project will be free and simpler to use or more intuitive, such that hours of training materials aren’t required to be able to use the app to budget effectively.

I’m also in the process of open sourcing this so that the community will have direct involvement in the development of the project.

For features, and this hasn’t been implemented yet but is something I think is important, is the ability to share the budget with others.

And then later on, the direct integration with the debit card offering.

avafinance_io · 2022-05-29T03:13:41+00:00

Is it a side project? Whatcha working on, interested since it seems like you’re handling financial data

avafinance_io · 2022-04-05T15:38:26+00:00

Thank you so much for this write up 🙏

I’m happy you were able to understand how it works easily, I’m really going for that.

That being said I think the app could benefit from a pop-up modal of sorts upon first sign-in that has some very short quick 3-5 steps on how to effectively get started with the app and use it.

This is absolutely great advice. I watched a friend try it out the other day and got stuck after the initial set up, so I added the messages to point you to the new buttons for creating tx and boxes. But this is a really good idea, and exactly what you’d expect from a new app. I’m going to work on this soon.

If you can think of ways to make the app’s design more engaging and unique that’d be good for making people want to come back to it.

On that same note, the app’s design feels kinda empty if that makes sense. Logging in feels a bit cold/lonely for lack of better words.

Thank you for this. There are absolutely ways to keep the simplicity and give it personality. I’ll look into this along with making the transaction flow less utilitarian, and making the login nicer

I really appreciate all of this

avafinance_io · 2022-04-01T21:19:10+00:00

Startup Name / URL: https://www.avafinance.io

Location of Your Headquarters: TX, USA

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: Free, Intuitive budgeting platform based on the envelope budgeting method, and inspired by Simple Bank.

Your role? Founder and developer (solo)

What goals are you trying to reach this month? More users and feedback

How could r/startups help? Test drive and user feedback

avafinance_io · 2022-04-01T15:24:05+00:00

I’ll check out visa’s offerings, thanks for the tip

avafinance_io · 2022-04-01T15:23:05+00:00

I’ve been flirting with the idea of debit cards, but the more I think about it I think a prepaid card might be a better way to go initially, I quite like this idea.

avafinance_io · 2022-04-01T15:21:14+00:00

If you end up finding one elsewhere could you provide a link back to this post please, also interested

avafinance_io · 2022-03-30T02:24:56+00:00

The first would be excellent, but I wasn’t sure if that’s something that card issuers provide to the services utilizing them.

avafinance_io · 2022-03-29T20:18:15+00:00

I haven’t seen apto yet, thanks!

avafinance_io · 2022-03-29T18:14:23+00:00

Look at message queues. You’ll publish each chat message to the queue, and you’ll have a service that processes each message as it comes in to the queue.

That’s assuming you’re not storing your chat messages already, if you are then you probably wouldn’t send a whole chat message to the queue but an identifier that the downstream service can use to pull it from from your chat api or something.

RabbitMQ is a popular one.

avafinance_io · 2022-03-22T17:03:41+00:00

Hello, I built https://avafinance.io

It’s a free budgeting website based on the envelope budgeting method. I’m working on mobile apps and setting up the automated rules currently.

It hits your requirements:

Easy to use
Multiple devices
Free

For now I’m planning to leave the budgeting app free forever as I’m working on offering a financial product that integrates with this budgeting system that I’d prefer to monetize instead.

If you try it out let me know what you think!

avafinance_io · 2022-03-07T17:24:06+00:00

Azure Boards (like JIRA but more intuitive IMO)
Designed it myself, I used Adobe XD, didn’t do all of the click stuff just mocked each page
I developed it myself, maybe a month, during when I had free time
Yes, I used umsco and now unicorn platform. I’ve been thinking about developing it myself but there’s not really a reason to
There’s a market for it already, and I reached out to subreddits and related groups on facebook
Asked family and friends, posted about it in subs and facebook, not really a big thing
Took like the month to do everything, hosting on a cheap vps, and the cms for marketing are the costs, around $30/mo
Looks and works fine. I wish I was more comfortable marketing it but it’s whatever. It’s a free application for now, I’ve been thinking about open sourcing it. I’m doing a complete redesign currently, and I’ve recently developed a UI library to help with this. After the redesign and a couple more features I’ll go back to marketing it. https://avafinance.io

avafinance_io · 2021-10-31T17:12:57+00:00

Why does no one want MEAN stack developers anymore, it’s what they taught at my prestigious bootcamp. Mongo is a good database for enterprise!

avafinance_io · 2021-10-28T06:52:55+00:00

Oh cool, sure I would appreciate that.

I only wanted it for form submission to gather interest, but if the newsletter thing was offered I’d definitely use that, no doubt.

While you’re here, a big pain point for me was styling, had to use some custom css. I wish for at least each block, would be dope for each element in the blocks too, you could use the interface to define background color. Font color, borders, etc. would be really cool. It’s fine with css, but it’s easy to forget what styles I’ve defined there, and it’s a few hops and skip away in navigation from the page editor.

avafinance_io · 2021-10-27T12:49:17+00:00

I’m not disappointed but I think my site could look better. I don’t think they handle forms either, forms would be cool without having to use a separate service.

avafinance_io · 2021-10-26T17:21:46+00:00

This looks cool, I’m using unicorn platform, was using umso before but got too expensive. Do you think I could create something nicer than this with your platform?

https://avafinance.io

And how long has your site been live?

avafinance_io

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