Budget.WithAPlan

Budgeting and Debt Snowball tool.

Overview

My oldest surviving project. Way back in the ancient year of 2011, right after I got married, I tried to find a good online budgeting tool. Mint almost did what I needed, but it was missing integration with my bank.

In response, I wrote my own budgeting tool, mostly to automate importing my bank statements.

By early 2012, Mint added support for my bank, and I retired this project.

Fun fact: this project has the oldest ancestor to Lumberjack: "Logging.WithAPlan". Lumberjack is a way better name.

Current Status

Retired

Core Problems

• Doing budgets only in excel gets annoying
• Mint didn't have support for my bank

Lessons Learned

• Banks love changing their export format, I assume to make it hard to build tools like this

Current Objectives

• Move the code out of BitBucket before Mercurial support expires
• Make the Debt Snowball page usable again - Mint still doesn't have anything like it

Tools

• ASP.Net MVC
• Javascript / jQuery
• Google Charts
• C#
• Entity Framework
• Visual Studio
• MS SQL
• Mercurial / BitBucket