I’m a big fan of Mint. What’s ironic, though, is that I don’t use it much. That’s why it’s so great.
Keeping track of personal finances is a chore. I used to be one of those custom excel program junkies that would manually export my data into a CSV file, run them through a weekly program, and monitor my expenses. With bills, budgets and deadlines on top of that, it took up about about four hours of my time each week.
Through Mint, this is now down to four minutes.
Mint is the perfect example of an online company that solves offline problems.
What makes Mint’s product so great? Is it the beauty, the ease, the automatic nature? I decided to create a visualization of Mint’s product page to get a better feel of the words they use to describe their platform:
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Hey Scott,
That visualization is really cool. Did you create that by hand or did you use a program to parse/generate it?
Glad you like the product!
-Atish
Hi Atish,
Glad you like it.
I used IBM’s manyeyes visualization platform: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
It’s free, and there are some amazing visualizations. Don’t lose track of time, though