Taylor doesn’t pour his whole soul out everyday on the dev blog–writing about all the things over which he’s banging his head against a wall and throwing maté at his monitor (edge cases with transfers on the iPhone…) but he does give some nice updates.
Head over there for a preview of a new build for both YNAB and YNAB for iPhone.
Neal Frankle, over at Wealth Pilgrim has written up a great review of YNAB — check it out! :)
YNAB for iPhone has the #1 spot for “Hot” in the App Store. I knew those sexy icons would pay off some day.
And this is even before we push out 1.1 (which is in beta at the moment, including transfers, flags, password protection, and a persistent sync password option).
Woot! Thanks everyone for your support!
And to the left of “Bruce Lee: Dragon Warrior”. This obviously means that Apple considers YNAB hotter than Bruce Lee:
Here’s the email we received nine minutes ago:
When it hits in the next 24 hours, you’ll be able to get it here.
I’m Taylor, the Lead Software Architect here at YNAB. Jesse and I thought it would be a great idea to give you a look at the more technical side of what goes on here, and that’s just what I plan on doing on my new YNAB development blog! I got it started off by telling you what you can expect from our next YNAB update. Check it out.
On April 27th I sent out a newsletter letting everyone know about JD Roth’s new book “Your Money: the Missing Manual”. I also said that if anyone purchased it, they’d be entered into a drawing for a free one-hour budget coaching session with me.
Congrats to Jen L, whose email address is ****en@gmail.com. Let me know when you have an hour to spare and we’ll hammer out whatever’s needed!
(P.S. JD’s book is excellent if you need a very well-written, thoughtful primer on personal finance. I say primer, but it’s about 95% of what you need to know. Highly recommended. Also, I highly recommend his blog, GetRichSlowly.org.)
I’ve been wanting to do this for a while.
We’re going to change the order of the Rules in the YNAB Methodology. You’ll see the change slowly rollout as we update the site, software, tutorials, etc.
Rule Two will be Rule One.
Rule Three will be Rule Two.
Rule Four will be Rule Three.
Rule One will be Rule Four.
Why?
1) We were scaring people by putting Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck as the first Rule! YNABers know that it takes a while to get to Rule One (and it’s so worth it!), but many passersby do not! They see that immediately thing YNAB won’t work for them. Quite the contrary of course.
2) The new order promotes a logical progression from newbie to YNAB Zen Master. You start by just giving what you have a job. No more, no less. Then once the NOW dollars are accounted for, you begin looking ahead to those future expenses. Finally, you need to make sure you stay on the wagon and Roll with the Punches — continuing to Give Your Dollars Jobs and Save for a Rainy Day. Once you have that under your belt, you can begin working on your Buffer, where you can finally Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck.
Anyway, I think it’ll be easier to explain to newcomers and I’m excited for the change. You’ll see it start to roll out in stages fairly soon.
Of course this changes absolutely nothing about the software :)
Hey everyone, this was too cool not to mention. YNAB was mentioned in the New York Times in an article “How to Self-Diagnose Your Financial Health.”
Go check it out if you get a chance. We’re in the part about spending less than you earn.
See a quick sneak peek I just put together:
Coming soon as an automatic update to your app. You’ll be notified on startup of the app when it’s available. Don’t ask me for an exact day — I really don’t know!
Our private betatesters are running the Adobe AIR 2.0 beta and are reporting that YNAB 3 is running faster. Excellent.
Adrian, our new full-time developer, is also going full-bore optimizing the code for speed. Hopefully we’ll have something for everyone to bite into in the next few weeks!