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Mint: Free, Simple Personal Finance Software
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The blog for Mint.com, a free personal finance software tool designed to help customers track finances & find offers that will save them money. Our blog also has numerous articles related to personal finance matters.
Recent Posts
8 Bizarre Real Estate Deals
Let's face it - the typical real estate transaction is pretty boring. Few of us can get all that excited about yet another "three bedroom, one and a half bath" changing hands in the town or city we live in. The daily occurrence of these deals - and t...
6 Steps to a New Career
There are many reasons why you might find yourself wanting a career change. Perhaps you hate your job or you feel you have gone as far as you can in the industry you're currently in; perhaps you just got laid off and you’re having trouble finding w...
New iPhone app! Passcode, Editing, and More!
Many of us at Mint are iPhone users so we’re as excited about our new iPhone app as we hope you’ll be. Keeping things simple is especially important on a mobile device so rather than cram in 100s of new features just to tick the boxes, we...
Intuit Not Out to Change Mint Says Founder
Scott Cook from Intuit here. OK, I’m about to date myself. Long ago (27 years ago in fact), I watched my wife complain about paying the bills. That gave me an idea. And that idea became Quicken. Check with your parents – they might use it. Maybe...
Can You Live Without a Car?
I’ll spare you the environmental lecture—Just imagine your life with out a car payment. Sounds pretty nice, right? Read on to see how you can make it a reality. Even better: you don’t have to wear spandex biking shorts. ...
Mint Map: America’s Most Frugal Cities
We all know that Americans have cut back on their spending during the recession but where are they cutting back the most? Comparing 20 cities across 25 "discretionary" categories we found that five cities spend less than the national average and cut ...


Have you seen our Electric CheckBook entry for RailsRumble07? It was completely designed and built by our 3-man team during the 48-hour Rails competition.
ElectricCheckBook - http://electriccheckbook.com
RailsRumble07 - http://vote.railsrumble.com
Its flexible double-entry ledgers can be shared within a group enabling remote partners, your accountant and spouse to share access to the appropriate accounts without emailing files back and forth.
Mint is obviously a bit more mature, but ours was designed, developed and launched in 48 hours. It has already replaced Quickbooks for our small distributed team and handles our accounting, project budgeting, and contractor timesheets. We'll continue to add features that we need to manage our personal and business finances.
Posted: September 19th, 2007 | Report This Comment