It’s about time. After working on the project for a while myself, we hired on two additional coders a few months ago to kick-start development of Prosperity and have now reached a point (at version 0.5) where we want to start getting input from people on the project.
Quicken for Mac has been a real problem of mine for years and it’s always been a dream to get rid of it on the Mac. It does little useful for anyone and it’s a codebase that hasn’t been truly updated in a decade. It has some useful features but, in general, it’s old and done.
By no means will the first version of Prosperity replace it for everyone. I’m not crazy enough to promise that. But I’d like to hope that enough people will give us some feedback on the direction we’re taking to really flesh out the idea and make a real Mac-like finance app that people will use. It seems the main reason people stick with Quicken is the online downloads bit for certain banks, so we worked to include that in our product as well so that people wouldn’t miss it too much. And, hopefully, we’ll get some more banks on-board with this in the future. More about that later, though, because OFX is a big topic.
We have a lot to do still, and we know it. So if you want to help out with testing we’d love to have you. Hit the Prosperity page and click on the sign up button to get started. We’ll update everyone on that mailing list here soon when we have a good version to send out.
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Re: Prosperity Limited Public Beta: w00t
I’m looking forward to it. I’m a long-standing Quicken user who has years of data in my file. But after switching to Mac five years ago, I’ve been less and less pleased with. The last update they forced on us was a pitiful excuse for a paid piece of software. The very first application that will meet my mid-level home finance needs that will import my data is the one I will go with.
Oh… of course, since it’s mac, it has to be beautiful and fun to use.
I wish you luck and hope you can save me from my Quicken hell.
Re: Prosperity Limited Public Beta: w00t
OMG!!! This ROCKS!!!!!
I just did a quickie test import of my bank files from the past couple of weeks. Then I added a few cats, tags, etc. and was up and running in less than 5 minutes. I have tried nearly all the major personal finance apps over the past few months (and have paid for most of those because the trial just didn’t have enough functionality or enough transactions).
This is IT. I have FINALLY found MY financial app. It does just what it needs to do, without a lot of bells and whistles, and it does it well. It is so easy to use, the interface is nice, and geez, I really couldn’t ask for much more.
Awesome job guys. Now, just hurry and release it so I can start fresh by the first of the year
Cheers!
Re: Prosperity Limited Public Beta: w00t
The last update they forced on us was a pitiful excuse for a paid piece of software. The very first application that will meet my mid-level home finance needs that will import my data is the one I will go with.
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