Bugdet Zen Reviews and details

Questions & Answers

1. What makes Bugdet Zen unique?

   Budget Zen is end-to-end encrypted and can be self-hosted. It's also very simple and easy to use.

2. Why should a person choose Bugdet Zen over its competitors?

   If you're looking to use an app that helps you, is easy to use, and doesn't get in the way, while being privacy-respecting, Budget Zen is for you.

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: Anyone building a non AI product/startup?

  Safelyx [1] is automated content moderation tools. It started off just doing checks against many known URL databases/lists, running antivirus, and the likes, though for more recent products it incorporates AI (somewhat for source code analysis, a lot for message and image analysis). Bewcloud [2] is a simpler Nextcloud alternative (FOSS, self-hosted). Nothing AI there. Budget Zen [3] is end-to-end encrypted budgets... - Source: Hacker News / 29 days ago

• Show HN: One year of bewCloud (a simpler Nextcloud alternative)

  BewCloud doesn't offer any server-side or end-to-end encryption (only in the HTTPS/SSL sense, and that's from caddy in the recommended docker-compose.yml file). I also created and maintain an open source end-to-end encrypted product, Budget Zen [1], and it's just a different kind of beast. Applying either concept here would be very complicated and complex. To get an idea, Nextcloud offers server-side encryption... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: Spending Tracking Tools

  If you don't need/want integrations but want privacy and full control of your data with simplicity and ease of adding expenses, I can recommend Budget Zen [1], which I have built and have been using myself for over four years, now. It's end-to-end encrypted, open source, and you can self-host it. When you open it, you can see with a simple green/red bar how much you've spent and how much you have left for the... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: Side projects with > $0 and < $100 / month in revenue?

  I can get this started with a couple of projects that I've had running for over 3 years and have less than 20 customers combined (roughly $50 / month total): - https://budgetzen.net - Simple & Encrypted Budgets & Expenses (OSS & Self-hostable) - https://loggit.net - Simple & Encrypted Life Tracking & Logging (OSS & Self-hostable). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

  So many interesting things here! I've created quite a few things, but the ones I still use at least every week (some every day) are: - Budget Zen: https://budgetzen.net - Simple and end-to-end encrypted budget & expense management. (OSS and self-hostable, web + PWA). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• I created a (opensource) budget manager

  You can try it for free here: https://budgetzen.net. Source: over 1 year ago