Launching the beta of my new budgeting app (and how I structure beta tests)

Weekly vs Monthly is a HUGE feature. I've tried so many budgeting apps and no one does it as clean as what you showed here. 👏👏👏

Thank you for watching and following along everyone! 🙏 happy to answer any questions, even unrelated to the video

LETS GOO! These videos are awesome! damn its fun to watch these

Glad to see another video. Just joined the waitlist.

Loved trying out Luna! It works so smoothly. I'm honestly surprised how stable it feels. Really great for a first beta!🥳

Absolutely love this, man! Ellie is so clean and so good. There's nothing like it that I've ever used. As a college student, I can't afford a subscription, but it's one of the few apps I'd buy a lifetime license for. (Which sucks because your pro features are so good too!) And now this budgeting app—it's exactly what I've been looking for. Keep up the great work, man. I love your work so much. Looking forward to using this app firsthand!

Awesome video! Its good to see thought process behind your work

Hi. This is the first time I ran into your channel and I love it. I’m subscribing for sho. I also signed up for the waitlist for Luna and i’m excited to use it soon. I am living alone for the first time ever in my life and I am learning how to track where I spend my money. So i’m so ready to enter that era of my life. 😝🤘🏼

I think a good solution for big numbers, and is fairly simple to do in swiftUI is to format the number like: CA$10,928, could be CA$ 10,9K, since you are already removing the decimal numbers, this could go as a solution. And if the user tap on the value a little hover shows up the full value

I've been researching all over the internet to a point I wanted to just develop mine, good thing I bumped into this video. Can't wait

Really enjoyed hearing about your development experience. Keep it up!

Tip: Allow people to type their own currency, or none at all. I want to budget the cheerios between my kids. Bonus: Allow it per category, doing the conversion between categories. That would be wild.

amazing work Chris ❤

nice ! i love ellie planner, excited to try your new app

This seems amazing! I just signed up. This seems like an App I would understand. One small tip (if you didn't know). For example, the Euro sign is after the numbers and not before them like the Dollar sign. It would just be a cosmetic thing but thought you might want to know,

Great work on the design, I just have some feedbacks for you 😀 - I'm not sure you have to precise the sub-type of currency. Let me explain, in the US you don't need to write US$ in the street because everyone knows it is the local money. But, it is also the case in the other countries with Dollars. For instance, in Australia or in New Zealand it is written $ in the streets not AU$/ NZ$. So, I think the CA, AU, NZ is not necessary here just use $ - In Europe, depending of the country the sign is before or after the price (ex: France, Germany and Spain => 50€ | Holland, Belgium => €50) - For certain money like in Vietnam or Madagascar, they don't have cents so think about disabling this possibility - For your empty state, maybe change the 'Add new category' button because in this case, it is the primary action

Hi, congrats on what you’ve built so far, I want to build a budgeting app myself, just didn’t get to it yet. One feature that the others are missing on is a form of tagging some transactions. For example, you would want to track usual restaurant spendings as one thing, but the restaurant spendings in a vacation, differently. My idea/suggestion for this is to have tags underneath your categories so that people can see how much they've spent at restaurants overall, on non-vacations and on vacations.

Really love the app hopefully for search of emoji or add a premade categories 🙌

Awesome Video! pls add BRL to the currencies! Excited to test it!

The app looks so good! Congrats! Even though the strategy you chose for multi-currency is a good start, allowing for multiple currencies in the same account - even without conversion - is somehow better since there are situations where this can become common. For example: Subscriptions. Even though you main currency is HUF for example, you netflix sub will be paid in EUR.