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hewwwww 3 days ago

In my free time I’m still working on My Financé (I keep getting feedback this name is confusing), which is a fairly undifferentiated personal finance tool.

It’s a labor of love, but I love it!

I’m currently building a simulation engine that lets you forecast your spending, build scenarios (like taking a year off, getting a cat, move to a new city, etc based on your current spending patterns and assets.

https://myfinancereport.com/

It’s great fun to have a project of one’s own to just toil away on.

sfpotter 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know what it is about this name, but I read it as "My Fiancé". My brain did not register the first "n" and it wasn't until I read your parenthetical remark that I went back and re-read.

The name isn't confusing, per se ("get married to/be exclusive with your finances", OK), but it also isn't very strong... "financé" is also very strange and awkward to pronounce as a native English speaker. Probably because it comes across more as Spanish-seeming despite it being a play on a French work.

hewwwww 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah it was meant to be along the lines of:

My Financé, because you should love your finances.

To your point, I think it’s hard to notice the spelling, and hard to figure out how to pronounce it.

It also is the same spelling as My Finance, which is tricky to rank for on Google.

Overall, it seems like it has potential to be a fun brand, but the constant confusion has led me to strongly consider a “rebrand”.

verdverm 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> I don't know what it is about this name, but I read it as...

same misreading

I'm blaming typoglycemia

epolanski 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Because everybody reads it as a typo of my fiance.