One of the first Flex applications I built was a Flex front-end for a web based personal budgeting application called “WeBudget”. I had originally built WeBudget as a way to track how much my wife was spending on clothing. The only problem was that this required my wife to actually enter her receipts into WeBudget. I tried to make it easy by providing a WAP interface but that didn’t really work so I gave up on WeBudget. Luckily Mint, a new startup which is “Refreshing Money Management”, has come to the rescue. For those who are not familiar with Mint it’s really simple – just setup your accounts and Mint begins aggregating your transactions so that you can easily see where your money is going. It’s a safe and private way to manage your personal finances. I’ve been using it for a few months now and I love it!
A few months ago I met with some really bright people at Mint. They had already begun exploring Flex and so I didn’t have to work hard to “evangelize” Flex to them. They already knew what it could do so I just answered some questions they had and let them know how excited I would be as a Mint user to see them use improve their UI with Flex. Well just last week Mint updated their Spending Trends tab to use Flex! It looks and works great! Best of all it makes tracking how much my wife spends on clothing super easy! ;) Give it a try and let Mint and I know what you think.
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Thanks James, you the man. :-)
Jason M. Putorti
Lead Designer, mint.com
I’ve been using Mint for a little while now, and felt that what’s it’s lacking is a little Flex love. I can’t wait to see where they take it.
Can you ask them when they’ll be supporting Canadian banks? Even their registration form won’t let non US people register.
Mike
I thought the title was referencing the popular site analyzer tool: http://www.haveamint.com/
Mike: I’ll find out for you.
Jacob: We will have to get that Mint using Flex too!
-James
Hey Mike, we have most of the technology ready to do this, but I believe there are a few things that aren’t yet in place. There are a lot of Canadians who have expressed interest. I will see what I can do to move this along…
Thanks!
Jason M. Putorti
Lead Designer, mint.com
P.S. Let’s go Pens! :-P
For the record, I did use webudget for a while, but James is right…I’m terrible with money and keeping to a budget.
For the record, I did use webudget for a while, but James is right…I’m terrible with money and keeping to a budget. With mint.com James can now point out to me how much I spend…scary!!
I created an account just today and oh boy, I love it!. It is a wonderful tool and I absolutely will recommend it to all my friends.
The Mint UI is very nice!
I just set up an account on Mint after M Downey pointed me to your article. But when trying to set up the first account for my bank it give userid/password errors when I can login to the bank website in another browser tab with no problems.
Nice work this looks really clean. Choice of Flex is an obvious one, IMHO.
Please make mint available to canadians, we have nothing like this for use in canada and I really would like to be able to use mint for my money management.
I second (or third) the request to make mint available in canada. i’m paying way too much for Mvelopes and it’s a disaster!
I third (or fourth)this request to make mint available in canada, The program is fantastic !
Me four (or five)! Mint.ca!!!
I fifth the request to make Mint.com available to Canadians. I currently use YNAB, which is great, but I would use Mint instead if I could!
And I scream for the rest of the world. Make this available for everyone !!! Not just the US or North America…..
Even if it doesn’t connect with my bankaccounts, I still want a tool like this online. And Mint seems to be doing that job very well…!!!
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