Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Pennyminder updated! (Yes, finally)

Hello everyone! I know it's been a while and Pennyminder must appear quite... dormant (ahem), but I just pushed out a new release. It just has a few new features:
  • Added a means to retrieve/change lost passwords (link is on the sign in page).
  • The last column of the budget screen is now ghosted. The theory being that the information needs to be displayed but is of less importance than the data for the current month. But... I don't know if I like it or not! Let me know in a comment what you think...
  • The blog link now points to this site ;) (when I get a chance, I'll point blog.pennyminder.com here as well).
  • A new account page that displays some account details and a link to edit some of the user fields.
  • And a start on a demo account provisioning system. Speaking of which...
Demo accounts will be the focus of the next release, currently scheduled for the first Tuesday in August. The current plan is to have three different accounts for users to try out Pennyminder without having to signup for an account.

Each of the persona's represents a different kind of user with different needs. Hopefully the three will be enough to demonstrate the different uses of Pennyminder. The first is almost ready to go (and I may release a teaser with only the one finished around mid July) and the rest are being defined.

The ezine/portal mentioned in my last post is designed and hold for the lack of original content. There is lots of syndicated content, but a publishing schedule and article ideas need to be fleshed out (if you want to write for the Pennyminder magazine, get in touch with me!).

The plan for the future is to work on Pennyminder (including more blog posts) two nights a week (plus the occasional weekend mornings), keeping the scope of each release small enough to be implemented in a few weeks like that. There's lots to be done, but it looks to be doable with this approach.

So, check out the new Pennyminder

1 comments:

vf-ml said...

Ahhh, a breathe of fresh air! I tried using some social networking financial site and they wanted you to enter each and every account name/number, username/passwords, create goals, download apps!!!! ahhhhhhh as if managing money isn't a nightmare all alone.
I love this site.