Ask HN: What do you want in a finance app?

As a cloud storage solution for the same what are the problems or pain points that you've experienced in Finance Management Apps

  • As a product designer for a finance app, I can tell you a few things we've discovered during our research:

    - Most users are satisfied with an "at a glance" view of various things (e.g., their credit score) coupled with a low desire to "go a level deeper" (for credit score, this means low-to-no interest in seeing open credit lines, which factors affect their VantageScore 4.0 score, and so on)

    - List of recurring transactions (read: subscriptions) is a huge value add

    - Spending by category and category overview is useful when speaking with a financial consultant

    This is a sample of "what users want," more or less. I can also state, empirically (with our user base, at least), that Joe Public does not care about goals or goal-setting, and rarely thinks in those terms.