Mint Chooses Flex
Monday, 21 January 2008
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.
No. 1 — January 21st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Thanks James, you the man. :-)
Jason M. Putorti
Lead Designer, mint.com
No. 2 — January 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
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.
No. 3 — January 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Can you ask them when they’ll be supporting Canadian banks? Even their registration form won’t let non US people register.
Mike
No. 4 — January 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I thought the title was referencing the popular site analyzer tool: http://www.haveamint.com/
No. 5 — January 21st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Mike: I’ll find out for you.
Jacob: We will have to get that Mint using Flex too!
-James
No. 6 — January 21st, 2008 at 3:03 pm
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
No. 7 — January 21st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
For the record, I did use webudget for a while, but James is right…I’m terrible with money and keeping to a budget.
No. 8 — January 21st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
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!!
No. 9 — January 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
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.
No. 10 — January 28th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
[...] Ward already had a little writeup about Mint.com using Flex for some of their spending habit charting stuff, but what’s even [...]
No. 11 — January 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am
The Mint UI is very nice!
No. 12 — February 1st, 2008 at 12:01 am
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.
No. 13 — February 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Nice work this looks really clean. Choice of Flex is an obvious one, IMHO.
No. 14 — February 4th, 2008 at 11:03 am
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.
No. 15 — July 24th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
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!
No. 16 — August 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
I third (or fourth)this request to make mint available in canada, The program is fantastic !
No. 17 — September 4th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Me four (or five)! Mint.ca!!!
No. 18 — September 22nd, 2008 at 7:40 am
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!
No. 19 — November 25th, 2008 at 5:47 am
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…!!!