Lunch Money

Hello Product Hunt 👋! My name is Jen and I'm the one-woman team behind Lunch Money. Quick backstory I started working on Lunch Money as a digital nomad in Fukuoka, Japan in January 2019 (more about that here). Fast-forward 8 months later, I launched Lunch Money into the wild to take on big names like Mint and YNAB. What's new? Since our first feature on Product Hunt 7 months ago, we've matured a lot as a product and added a slew of new core features including: 💥 Fully customizable Rules Engine to automate your workflow 💥 Developer API for your own tools and plug-ins 💥 CSV-based transaction importing tool 💥 Query Tool to run analytics against your transactions 👉 See why users choose Lunch Money, in their own words! 👈 Pricing & Product Hunt Promo Lunch Money offers pricing in both USD and CAD. Both monthly & yearly subscriptions are available. Use code PH2020 to get 25% off your first annual subscription! (Pst- if you sign up today, the code will be automatically applied!) Quick FAQ Is my bank supported for automatic imports? We use Plaid to automatically import transactions from most US & Canadian banks. If you're outside of this region, I encourage you to check out our CSV import tool or look into building your own integration with our API. Almost 40% of our users are outside of US & Canada, so these have proven to be sustainable methods for getting transactions into Lunch Money! Is there a mobile app? The short answer is "not yet". Since we are a small development team of 1, our current biggest strength is speed of iteration. Once we introduce a new platform, our development cycles will get drastically longer. We're focused on rounding out the core product more before we put effort into a mobile app. But it's definitely coming soon :) Thank you for considering Lunch Money! Feel free to comment below, reach out to me via Twitter (@lunchbag or @lunchmoney_app) or email jen@lunchmoney.app. I'd love to hear what you think! 😄

I'm a YNAB user (that just happens to be what I use), but I have tried lunch money. I can't express how well built and smooth the entire app is. Its probably a year or two old but its already significantly better than mint and close to YNAB in overall finish. Honestly worth a fair shot especially if YNAB is not your thing

I was a long time Mint user because I felt I had no other options. YNAB wasn't quite for me either but I had always been looking for an app that could replace Mint for transaction review and budgeting especially. When I listened to Jen on Indie Hackers Podcast I was pumped it give Lunch Money a try. After a test run, I was 100% in. I've made feature requests and asked questions and have always gotten a prompt, thoughtful response from Jen. It's also incredible how many new features she's released. Anyways, I'm a huge fan, I'm happy to pay for an annual subscription, and I can't wait for the bright future ahead of Lunch Money. Thanks @lunchbag !

Congrats on the launch @lunchbag! I have struggled to find the right budgeting app as a person who does and a lot of multi-currency spending. I signed up this morning and can honestly say so far this is the best solution I have come across. The UX is clear and concise, the onboarding flow is 🔥, and the intuitive logic around grouping and re-occurring charges is very well done. Also supporting 🇨🇦's makes it just that much better (sending this from over in Waterloo).

I've been using Lunch Money since January as a replacement for Mint, which I had been using since 2010! I got tired of not having the level of control I needed over categorizing my transactions, which meant that my "budgeting" was just verifying I wasn't going over a total amount at the end of every month. With complex custom rules, easy transaction grouping/splitting, and detailed analysis, Lunch Money put me back in control and gives me better visibility into our spending. Plus, I no longer have to fend off the ads for financial products or the constant false alarm emails that warn me about "Upcoming Bills" or "Large Transactions". Jen has been incredibly responsive to requests and bugs. She's always churning out new, important features and the product feels way more polished than its competitors. I truly don't know how she stays so attentive and productive as a solo founder. Looking forward to seeing how Lunch Money shapes up over the next few years! Congrats on the 2.0 launch @lunchbag !

I've used and experimented with a wide variety of budgeting tools over the last few years, and Lunch Money hits the sweet spot of ease of use, feature richness and flexibility. I used YNAB for years, but their opinionated approach to budgeting became too restrictive for me. Tiller Sheets is immensely powerful but required too much setup work on my side to get value out of it. I'm now a happy subscriber to Lunch Money and think it deserves a lot more attention.

Lunch Money looks fantastic! Great to see an indie maker challenge much larger competitors in this space, and doing it in a sustainable way. If you'd like to know more about how Jen built the product, check out her recent interview with @csallen on the Indie Hackers Podcast: https://www.indiehackers.com/pod... Congrats on the launch, @lunchbag !