MVP priority list

[adrearly]

Connects to US financial institutions using SimpleFin, Plaid, MX, GoCardless etc. Web app Mobile app Imports excel/csv budgets from other software/apps Shows existing account balances and lets users assign from those balances to categories Connects to international financial institutions

[adrearly]

Empower, Quicken and RightCapital are current options for wealth management but they suck at budgeting

[sflynn850]

Tiered pricing based on functionality/features: manual entry, auto-imports, forecasting. Not crazy price differential, but something like patreon pricing that makes people either feel like they got a deal or think, "might as well, it's only $2 more"

I like this - can we break it out into its own issue?

[adrearly]

Adding micro-steps.

• [ ] decide on server, hosting and backend for web
• [ ] preliminary research (sentence-level accounting of services provided and cost) and choose one fintech connection product (plaid, etc) - simpleFi might be free?
• [ ] product mission statement, here's a go: a budgeting and forecast platform that promotes intentional spending and automated savings, with reports, forecasts and other analytics that help users understand where they are and where they're going.
• [ ] decide on budgeting philosophy (zero dollar, cash flow, anticipatory with correction allowances, retroactive, forced scarcity)
• [ ] ...
• [ ] MVP is a web app that will show existing account balances, either manually entered or imported, and lets users assign from those balances to categories