Mint.com Free Online Personal Finance Web-App Now Live!
I’m pleased to announce Mint.com is officially launching today at TechCrunch 40 in San Francisco. Our free online personal finance web-app is now open to everyone!
For those of you who have enjoyed our private beta and financial content, now is the time to tell your friends, family, and anyone who could use:
- A little financial organization.
- Free personal finance software
- Insight into where their money goes, across all accounts.
- Email & SMS bill reminders and alerts.
- Personalized savings suggestions averaging over $1,000 during our beta.
Since Mint is free, and only takes a few minutes to setup, why not pass along a good financial tip?
Private Beta Feedback:
We’ve received nearly 3,000 emails in the past few weeks with product suggestions, bug reports, and requests. We read every single one of them, and I just want to say: Thank you; you’re helping make Mint better in a very real way.
While it may take us some time to add all the banks and credit unions requested, we’re working on it. Here are some user suggested features we will be rolling out in the next few months:
- Transaction-level drill-down from the spending pie graph
- Rename / nick-name an account
- Exclude accounts (e.g. don’t show my business account, just my checking)
- Support for student loans, mortgages, and brokerages.
Keep the suggestions coming!
Bloggers & Journalists:
Thank you for respecting our press embargo. The rules of TechCrunch 40 forbade advanced coverage - any leaks would have meant being kicked out of the conference entirely! You are now free to write what you like about Mint, good and bad, screen shots and all. You can find a company background, logos, and screenshots on our PR & Blogger Resources page.
Again, I want to thank every Mint beta user for taking the time to provide such tremendous feedback. I hope Mint continues to be a product you use in your daily life. On our side, we’ll do our best to help you “do more with your money.”
Aaron Patzer
Founder & CEO, Mint.com
Congratulations on launching the best financial management tool I’ve seen! I joined the private beta merely 2 weeks ago and I absolutely love it!
Keep up the good work.
This sounds cool, but it seems you’re having major scalability issues… every single one of the accounts I tried to add (about 6) failed…
So excited to finally sign up… BUT I’m not able to connect to any of my accounts. Hopefully they can fix this soon, so I can give them a positive recommendation to friends.
New accounts time out every time. Are you guys getting swamped and the servers are failing or is it just me? I tried E*Trade, Chase and ING.
I’ve been saved!
Congratulations on the launch guys! The app is great so far. I love the automation of the spending habits etc. Keep up the good work!
alas,
Mint is currently down for maintenance.
A little bit of growing pains? Is this the techcrunch40 effect?
According to us, Mint is a great tool for managing our personal finances. Now it depends on us, the user community to adopt it and help it move forward with our support and feedback. Thanks Mint!
Hey guys, for those that are having trouble adding accounts, we apologize for the inconvenience. We had a few thousand people try to add many thousands of accounts today in a two hour period.. and we may have overwhelmed a few banks we linked to.
Thanks also for all the nice comments everyone, we sincerely appreciate them!
Today was great. I presented Mint to an audience of over 500 people in San Francisco. The presentation was basically setting Mint up, live, from scratch. In 6 minutes, I showed people where all of my money goes (I used my own accounts), got email and text message alerts (apparently I don’t have much credit remaining on one of my cards), and found about $2,000 in savings opportunities.
Hi Aaron,
I like the idea, didn’t have a chance to see the implementation yet. I am really concerned about the safety of my information.
You say you don’t collect my information but this is immaterial. Your site will have ALL information necessary to leave me broke, which is why I need to be 100% sure you are safe. For as long as you don’t show me how safe you are and what backing you have to cover any losses incurred because of potential “burglaries” I’ll keep MINT as an interesting idea.
Maybe, if you would allow people to download the application, you can overcome some of these safety concerns. I know that changing your model is tough (I’m a Product Manager and technologist myself) but your potential revenue stream is not affected by such a change. You can still make suggestions (ads) etc etc.
Thanks,
Israel Baumel
Is this primarily for the US or will Canadians be able to use the full feature set?
I did a short review of the Mint.com beta. I was impressed. This is the first financial app I think I will actually use constantly. Great job Mint.com team!
Sincerely,
DebtKid
P.S. - I think I should submit one of my mistakes for the “train wreck Tuesdays” thing…but which mistake to choose!
Congrats for the award on TC40
Congratulations of winning the Techcrunch 40
what was everyone’s reaction the moment they heard their names
Yeah, we’ve been experiencing some growing pains. In the 3 hours after I got off stage (11am Pacific Time), we had over 9,000 signups. And it’s not letting up…we just won TechCrunch 40.
Engineering is pulling an all-nighter on this one…we’re about 3x capacity now, with more servers being provisioned as we speak.
So do you have any plans for non-US rollout? It looks interesting, but US-centric.
Congratulation for winning the top award @ Techcrunch40. When do think your server will let me sign up? I have been trying unsuccessfully.
UK access, UK banks - when, when, WHEN?
I too would like to know if there are any plans to bring the service to UK users?
Parm,
Yes, we plan to bring Mint to the UK, possible late 2008 early 2009.
Aaron Patzer
Founder & CEO, Mint.com
Hi Aaron, please can you try to get here sooner than that-for some good reasons see below:
Pc pro ( the uk version of pcmag) recently had a huge response to an article they wrote and have setup a campaign to ask microsoft for an updated version of money.
Since support for money will run out in June for the existing money program there are lots of people simply begging for your service.
It also would be a great time to do some pr for your product.
We might even be able to help you guys get set up before then, ref contacting banks and helping you ref differences, am sure can probably find volunteers to do a lot of the basic stuf for free!
eg supplying lists ref categories and companies.
Here are the links to a recent webpost about the article and forum comments
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/190749/microsoft-rebuffs-pc-pro-call-for-new-money.html
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=270035
Hi,
if you are looking for UK beta testers, I am interested.
Channing
would also be interested in being a uk beta tester - so please contact if you require anyone
I also would like to voluteer for UK Beta testing. Let me know!
The same if you re looking for beta tester in the UK, I can’t wait to see a mint.com in uk (problem the name mint is a credit card company in UK)
good luck anyway !