Mint to Kill Quicken - I'm going to gloat
I totally have to gloat about stating the obvious - then having the obvious come true! I am so smart S-M-R-T!
TechCrunch reported that Mint's going to migrate everyone on Quicken Online to Mint.com. Clearly you aren't going to manage two products, one product being a crippled/less useful version of the first. Thanks Aaron Patzer for doing the right thing. Good job.
Also Mint, please integrate with Turbo Tax faster. Love the idea. Go. Quick. Like bunnies.
I want a financial program that can not only do my taxes - but do stuff like figure out what estimated taxes I need to pay right now based on capital gains income - or random income or whatever. So like Mint would alert me it was time to pay my Mass & Fed estimated taxes for the quarter - then automatically tell me how much to right a check for. Now that would be AMAZING!
Patzer - don't take flak from the people saying that you "sold out." Fing awesome you did. Now, you can integrate TurboTax which I already use with Mint - which I also already use. Awesome! Not to mention the boat load of money that you made. I hope that you took an awesome vacation to Antartica or something as a present to yourself for selling it. Not to say go away for a month - but b/c Antartica is my dream vacation.
Oh BTW Mint - Love that you brought the grey line back. Effing AWESOME. I love that line. I like the thing that tells me how much money is left for that budget too. I wish it wasn't so wordsy - like on the bar chart have two bars - one is what i've spend it one is what I have left vs. having the I have XXX left as a seperate text on the right.
I finally figured out that you want me to not budget to save money. Okay I get it - but I like having the saving budget to make sure I hit it each month. I want savings to be a prority - not a oh great I have some money left at the end of the month.
I still can't figure out how to 'save' three month's salary on the fitness thing. I have way more than 3 months in cash - in an FDIC insured account none the less - but Mint can't figure it out for some reason. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong - or the algorithm isn't quite right.
I totally love the fact that it figured out that my bank fees get refunded each month. I have no idea how you did that - but you guys rock!
I also think it rocks a lot that you think beyond just like savings - but also recommend to go get renters insurance/house insurance. I wonders if you could offer insurance product offers too like for auto insurance. It's really freaking hard to comparison shop for insurance - and it would be really freaking hard to build an ap to do it b/c of all the different state laws. It would be amazing if you could find me/my company a cheaper health care plan with the same stuff covered. They are freaking expensive.
I love the continual improvements - they rock my financial tracking world.
I'm wondering if I should buy some stock in Intuit now that Aaron Patzer is in charge of product management...
TechCrunch reported that Mint's going to migrate everyone on Quicken Online to Mint.com. Clearly you aren't going to manage two products, one product being a crippled/less useful version of the first. Thanks Aaron Patzer for doing the right thing. Good job.
Also Mint, please integrate with Turbo Tax faster. Love the idea. Go. Quick. Like bunnies.
I want a financial program that can not only do my taxes - but do stuff like figure out what estimated taxes I need to pay right now based on capital gains income - or random income or whatever. So like Mint would alert me it was time to pay my Mass & Fed estimated taxes for the quarter - then automatically tell me how much to right a check for. Now that would be AMAZING!
Patzer - don't take flak from the people saying that you "sold out." Fing awesome you did. Now, you can integrate TurboTax which I already use with Mint - which I also already use. Awesome! Not to mention the boat load of money that you made. I hope that you took an awesome vacation to Antartica or something as a present to yourself for selling it. Not to say go away for a month - but b/c Antartica is my dream vacation.
Oh BTW Mint - Love that you brought the grey line back. Effing AWESOME. I love that line. I like the thing that tells me how much money is left for that budget too. I wish it wasn't so wordsy - like on the bar chart have two bars - one is what i've spend it one is what I have left vs. having the I have XXX left as a seperate text on the right.
I finally figured out that you want me to not budget to save money. Okay I get it - but I like having the saving budget to make sure I hit it each month. I want savings to be a prority - not a oh great I have some money left at the end of the month.
I still can't figure out how to 'save' three month's salary on the fitness thing. I have way more than 3 months in cash - in an FDIC insured account none the less - but Mint can't figure it out for some reason. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong - or the algorithm isn't quite right.
I totally love the fact that it figured out that my bank fees get refunded each month. I have no idea how you did that - but you guys rock!
I also think it rocks a lot that you think beyond just like savings - but also recommend to go get renters insurance/house insurance. I wonders if you could offer insurance product offers too like for auto insurance. It's really freaking hard to comparison shop for insurance - and it would be really freaking hard to build an ap to do it b/c of all the different state laws. It would be amazing if you could find me/my company a cheaper health care plan with the same stuff covered. They are freaking expensive.
I love the continual improvements - they rock my financial tracking world.
I'm wondering if I should buy some stock in Intuit now that Aaron Patzer is in charge of product management...
Comments