Announcing Compensate June 18, 2007
I’m happy to announce the release of my latest little rails app
Compensate.
As some of you know I’ve been having money troubles. My biggest problem is that
I have a big pile-o-bills and a little pile-o-cash. The problem with the
existing apps out there is that they don’t let you manage and track your bills
before you’ve paid them. Compensate does. Enter your bills and then
figure out which ones get paid when. It’s simple, it’s not pretty, but I find it
useful and, seeing as money management seems to be an all-too-common issue
amongst geeks, I figured it might help someone else if I released it.
The one thing that compensate has going in it’s favor over most web based money
apps is that I will implement essentially any nifty or useful feature that gets
sent my way. I have no vision or goal for this app other than having a useful
tool to manage my money and it already does that, so everything else is gravy.
It still needs docs, but it’s a really simple app (good for getting started with
Rails too), and even has a little DSL built into it for the more common tasks.
The only catch is that any feature that is more significant than a GUI tweak
needs to come with unit tests to make sure it doesn’t screw up any-one’s account
balances.
Have fun. Download it. Fix it. Tweak it. Ignore it. Whatever.
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