I’ve been working on an app called Lång. A daily spending guide. It shows you what’s okay to spend based on how much needs to last how long.

For over a decade, I’ve thought about how most people seem to resist the advice about money. And also how all advice is based on the same idea: seeing where your money went and making monthly plans based on that.

I think people feel that this is a poor match for how money works. So they improvise. And because we tend to not discuss money with others, they improvise on their own. What this typically looks like is checking their balance and trying to pace things.

I’ve been trying to design the app around that. Providing support to what seems like a natural, instinctive approach to managing money.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6443515404

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ludvigk 3 days ago | parent [-]

I've been wanting to build something like this for myself, but partnering/integrating with banks seems to be the main difficulty. How do you solve this?

And which cards / banks does it support?

Also, what does the name mean? It might be a tad difficult to google, unfortunately, since I imagine that googling "lang" would come up with a lot of other results.

	▲	plindberg 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It doesn’t integrate with banks. You log as you spend. It’s a common question, but I think there are many reasons to keep it manual. It keeps you aware of what you have left. And automation won’t ever be perfect, so you must keep an eye on it and adjust things. The app focuses just on your everyday spending. You don’t log bills and subscriptions. And it’s not about being exact. You can add the rough total of what you spent. It acknowledges that when you plan your spending, it’s really just a guess. And you’ll adjust the plan as you go. What did you have in mind when you thought about building something like this? The name means ’long’, and is pronounced similarly. Naming is of course hard. I’m hoping that it will be something you remember.