Launching the beta of my new budgeting app (and how I structure beta tests)
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Published 2024-07-01
In this video I walk through the process of launching the first beta version of my new budgeting app. I sped run this in 48 hours and walk through some of the features I ended up shipping and how i structure beta tests for all my apps.
Download Luna: lunabudgeting.com/
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My apps / Startup ✌️
Ellie (daily planning app): ellieplanner.com/
Luna (budgeting app): lunabudgeting.com/
Mogul (personal CRM): mogulnetworking.com/
Aloa (my startup): aloa.co/
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro / what we are covering today :)
1:19 - How i structure beta tests
2:23 - Quick recap of where the app is at
3:00 - Small things I fixed in those 48 hours
3:37 - Adding multi-currency support
6:34 - Animation fixes
8:17 - Lockscreen widget
10:28 - Next steps
11:20 - Outro/thank you for watching :)
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All Comments (21)
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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. 👏👏👏
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I'm an iOS and Flutter app developer, and I really love the way how you explain every detail thoroughly. Good job!
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From the start to the end of your video I’ve been listening attentively haha now found myself downloading the app and you just earned a new sub 😅
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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
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Thank you for watching and following along everyone! 🙏 happy to answer any questions, even unrelated to the video
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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
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Genuinely love the level of detail you go into - not to in the weeds but not scratching the surface.... taking some mental notes for my own chan! ❤
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Just came across this video the fact that you are doing this all by yourself and this app has so much potential to be BIG!
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Wow! Just happened upon your channel by happenstance (instant sub btw), and this app is what I need from a budgeting app! I dont need the app to link to my banks, or automatically add transactions. Would love to be part of the beta, I’ve joined the waitlist.
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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!
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Beautiful content, Great App, nice design. Congrats! this is awesome. I have a MVP I need to get some eyes on. just finished v1 last night.
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Signed up for the waitlist! So excited for everything that's coming here :)
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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.
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This is awesome! I'm also working on a finance app but mostly geared towards desktop users. So this type of content is something I really love to see! Will defs try out for the beta soon! Looking forward to more posts!
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Really enjoyed hearing about your development experience. Keep it up!
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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.
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I've been using Ellie for hours. This app looks amazing! Even though the basic plan features are limited, the app still works perfectly fine and helps me with college stuff. I'm going to save some money to get the premium plan soon. I'm so excited to get this budgeting app; I've tried almost all budgeting apps, and none of them have such a comfy UI and amazing features
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Loved trying out Luna! It works so smoothly. I'm honestly surprised how stable it feels. Really great for a first beta!🥳
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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,
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love your stickers !
