Comments on: Make Money with Mint http://www.thetechbrief.com/2007/10/01/make-money-with-mint/ Technology news for busy people. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:02:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: ayodleeuser http://www.thetechbrief.com/2007/10/01/make-money-with-mint/comment-page-1/#comment-1271 ayodleeuser Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:10:56 +0000 http://www.thetechbrief.com/2007/10/01/make-money-with-mint/#comment-1271 I read this review and checked out Mint. It's very cool except it only tracks my Credit Cards and my Checking acct. Repeat, only credit cards and checking. It can't do any Brokerage accounts, any Retirement accts, etc. Unfortunately that's where most of my money is. I checked around the web and found a site called Yodlee (amazingly enough Mint uses Yodlee for pretty much all it's backend -- Mint is simply a pretty user interface). Yodlee is AMAZING!! It does CC's, Checking, Savings, Retirement, Stocks, Brokerage, Loans, Mortgages, even my Delta Skymiles account!! It's also much more respected in the industry (not a startup) and has some pretty amazing security. It pretty much has ALL the features of Mint (email alerts, auto transaction categorization, etc) Oh another thing this whole "Intelligent Savings" recommendations is basically another word for SPAM -- SPAM, people. The suggestions it made were totally meaningless even after several months of data. (Switch from this CC to this other one and save $1,000 -- oh yeah? How does that make sense if I pay my bill off every month?) Meanwhile, Yodlee has NO ads, NO spam, NO annoying graphics, just a very clean and minimal interface. (Note, I don't work for Yodlee or Mint or any other financial company -- just a user that is frustrated with Quicken & MS Money) I read this review and checked out Mint. It’s very cool except it only tracks my Credit Cards and my Checking acct. Repeat, only credit cards and checking. It can’t do any Brokerage accounts, any Retirement accts, etc.

Unfortunately that’s where most of my money is.

I checked around the web and found a site called Yodlee (amazingly enough Mint uses Yodlee for pretty much all it’s backend — Mint is simply a pretty user interface).

Yodlee is AMAZING!! It does CC’s, Checking, Savings, Retirement, Stocks, Brokerage, Loans, Mortgages, even my Delta Skymiles account!!

It’s also much more respected in the industry (not a startup) and has some pretty amazing security.

It pretty much has ALL the features of Mint (email alerts, auto transaction categorization, etc)

Oh another thing this whole “Intelligent Savings” recommendations is basically another word for SPAM — SPAM, people. The suggestions it made were totally meaningless even after several months of data. (Switch from this CC to this other one and save $1,000 — oh yeah? How does that make sense if I pay my bill off every month?)

Meanwhile, Yodlee has NO ads, NO spam, NO annoying graphics, just a very clean and minimal interface.

(Note, I don’t work for Yodlee or Mint or any other financial company — just a user that is frustrated with Quicken & MS Money)

]]> By: TheGrizz http://www.thetechbrief.com/2007/10/01/make-money-with-mint/comment-page-1/#comment-6 TheGrizz Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:48:14 +0000 http://www.thetechbrief.com/2007/10/01/make-money-with-mint/#comment-6 I like this product a lot, I plan to make great use of it. Admited the security question is a good one, but honestly in today's world not even government data is safe. It is part of the risk of the freedom the online world gives us. I like this product a lot, I plan to make great use of it. Admited the security question is a good one, but honestly in today’s world not even government data is safe. It is part of the risk of the freedom the online world gives us.

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