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Notes on money, privacy, and building ExtMoney.

• 17 July 2026

  Budgeting Apps Track What You Spent. They Don't Tell You If You're Getting Richer.

  Mint shut down. YNAB's price more than doubled. Here's why 'another budgeting app' is the wrong search, and what ExtMoney answers instead.

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• 17 July 2026

  Say It or Snap It — Either Way, You're Not Typing

  Voice and receipt scanning sound like gimmicks until you notice they fix the actual reason people abandon finance apps. Here's how we built both.

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• 07 July 2026

  The Week "GDPR-Compliant" Stopped Being Enough

  A late-June ruling reopened the fight over EU-US data transfers. Here's what that means for finance apps that lean on 'GDPR compliance' alone.

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