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Show HN: Liquid Budget – A zero-sum envelope budgeting application

https://www.liquidbudget.com

Hello hackers, I built Liquid Budget, a budgeting application as an alternative to YNAB. The core concept is that every dollar is allocated to digital envelopes, and as daily transactions occur you spend from your envelopes and manage overdrafts, almost as if you had micro bank accounts.Tech stack: - Frontend: React/TypeScript with Zustand for state and Shadcn/Radix components - Backend:...

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Ask HN: Does commission based marketing actually work?

This is a question for any marketers out there. Would you ever consider a marketing position to promote a service based website, where your compensation was 100% of the money from every member that signed up as a result of your efforts, for a specific time frame?I ask because it is difficult to determine whether a marketer will actually increase conversions, and a commission based payment can...

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I'm not sure I agree with the concept of responsive design in general. It sure sounds convenient from a maintenance perspective, but pretty terrible for a usability perspective.

A phone and a desktop are two completely separate user experiences. Cramming them both into one site either reduces the utility in either one in particular or complicates code with confusing branching conditions depending on what kind of device is being used.

It always felt to me the lazy way out.. I'm sure it applies to certain sites well, maybe simple content sites. But anything more robust and I think it breaks down.

Ask HN: Marketing strategies for a difficult-to-market aggregation of services?

Over the past several years I've been building a site to help me organize disjointed parts of my life. I love to track things, but I hated using different apps and different sites to do it because I felt more disorganized having everything spread out all over the place. So I built a site to track different parts of your life in one place, with small applications called trackers (ie Tasks,...

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Re:Ask HN: Looking for some feedback for my tracking startup on Monday October 08, 2012 @06:04PM (#4628939)
Hmm, I had been thinking about this... especially since I'll be adding more trackers and its likely that they'll start to look cluttered. Maybe a simple option on the account page to hide some of the trackers would do it.

Appreciate the feedback!

Ask HN: Looking for some feedback for my tracking startup

I recently launched a site I'd been building for a few years in my spare time called Tracktacular, which is a collection of web apps to help organize your life (tasks, goals, dreams, recipes, etc). I'm looking for some general feedback about the site and the idea as a whole.I should mention that I originally started working on this as a site entirely for me, but over time wondered if others...

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Re:Practical steps for launching a web site on your own? on Sunday October 07, 2012 @09:00PM (#4625051)
Thank you.. this will be the first approach I take, trying to find some key users who might find it interesting and listen to their feedback.
Re:Practical steps for launching a web site on your own? on Sunday October 07, 2012 @08:59PM (#4625047)
Thanks for the insight. I think sometimes we all hope this is what will happen automatically considering all the time we put into our projects, but it doesn't end up being a realistic strategy.

Hand off marketing of a side business to free up time for other ventures?

I sell a niche product to help guitarists prevent finger pain. I've built and launched the site myself, its entirely automated, and I've been getting by running an Adwords campaign which just about cancels out any profits.I know the business is capable of doing better, but I have moved on to building other projects and don't really want to spend the time marketing this site. Is there any way to...

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Practical steps for launching a web site on your own?

I've been working on a life organizing site for the past 2 or 3 years now and I'm finally in a position to launch it. However I'm having a hard time coming up with some practical steps that I can do every day to increase its exposure. Marketing isn't my strong suit or even an interest but I know its necessary. I've tried to submit it to the social sites but it seems to get buried in the noise...

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