Nice project! I built a CLI budgeting project a long time ago, and what made me stop using my own project was the lack of automated integration with my bank accounts. At that point I had many credit cards, multiple bank accounts, in different currencies, and integrating all expenses was just too much manual work.
I wish financial institutions were better at automated exports of your financial data, given the right permissions of course.
My personal bias is that anytime I see on a software company's website footer that they're a GmbH, I know it will be selling high quality, durable, reliable software ;)
I love this. I also built a business like that[0]. It's super niche. I have maintained this small business for soon to be 13 years now. Most of what has worked has been maintaining great relationships with the few customers I have.
I think the most important thing for me have been offering amazing support. I always reply to all e-mails right away and make it my top priority giving them my best help.
Congratulations on your success, and best of luck going forward!
How do you market your software?
Did you learn how to become a marketer and took it as a persona? What have you learned how to market your software in the past 20 years as a developer?
This really resonates. Long-term maintenance, reliability, and staying useful over years is the hardest part of building software — and often the most overlooked. Respect for prioritizing sustainability over hype. That mindset is what actually creates real products.
Interesting! I know next to nothing about iOS development, but surely there have been major changes in frameworks and expected look (often connected)? Which changes were there over the years and how and when did you follow them? Did it turn out good or bad to follow early / late?
>The mobile apps (iOS, Android, etc.) can be downloaded from the app stores and tested free of charge. Simple in-app purchases or the conenction to a paid WebApp unlock the Premium Features.
Looks great, and I was also happy to see that it has offline capabilities and will sync once you have a signal. There needs to be more apps built using this model.
I've done a similar app and this was basically the reason why I'm discontinuing the app. You didn't have a polished offline-first sync solution back in the days and my homemade sync code is a spaghetti soup.
Nice project! I built a CLI budgeting project a long time ago, and what made me stop using my own project was the lack of automated integration with my bank accounts. At that point I had many credit cards, multiple bank accounts, in different currencies, and integrating all expenses was just too much manual work.
I wish financial institutions were better at automated exports of your financial data, given the right permissions of course.
it's very sad that in Europe we have laws to guarantee "open banking" but in practice it's only B2B
My personal bias is that anytime I see on a software company's website footer that they're a GmbH, I know it will be selling high quality, durable, reliable software ;)
Congrats on your continued success!
which Rechtsform would you expect instead then for "high quality, durable, reliable software"? :-D
I love this. I also built a business like that[0]. It's super niche. I have maintained this small business for soon to be 13 years now. Most of what has worked has been maintaining great relationships with the few customers I have. I think the most important thing for me have been offering amazing support. I always reply to all e-mails right away and make it my top priority giving them my best help.
Congratulations on your success, and best of luck going forward!
[0] https://www.mino.no.
That looks really cool. Seems like it could work for hotels or holiday apartments too, especially if they have smart home appliances?
Thank you! Yes, it definitely could. I haven't thought about holiday apartments.. Thank you for the good idea!
The questions that come to mind for me:
1. How long after releasing the iOS app did you start on an Android version?
2. Are you using some kind of cross-platform framework, or are the apps mostly “mobile-friendly web views”?
3. How much code is shared between the three architectures?
4. How much of the app functionality is “server based” instead of “on device”?
Small typo on https://primoco.me/en/price: "conenction to a paid WebApp"
Some basic questions from a cybersecurity vulnerability researcher:
- what kind of authentication protocol stack is used
- what algorithm is used for network protocol encryption (hash, block, encryption)
- is data centrally stored, if so, is it encrypted at rest? Key stays in phones?
- any accounting audit done? (Moot but just a check mark in a small-family-business-oriented checkbox)
Great pricing!!
How do you market your software? Did you learn how to become a marketer and took it as a persona? What have you learned how to market your software in the past 20 years as a developer?
This really resonates. Long-term maintenance, reliability, and staying useful over years is the hardest part of building software — and often the most overlooked. Respect for prioritizing sustainability over hype. That mindset is what actually creates real products.
Interesting! I know next to nothing about iOS development, but surely there have been major changes in frameworks and expected look (often connected)? Which changes were there over the years and how and when did you follow them? Did it turn out good or bad to follow early / late?
>The mobile apps (iOS, Android, etc.) can be downloaded from the app stores and tested free of charge. Simple in-app purchases or the conenction to a paid WebApp unlock the Premium Features.
Typo in 'conenction'
Amazing to see such a long tenure in that competitive market. Thanks for sharing!
I wonder, apart from the normal exposure/distribution on App Store, what are the main strategies you've used for marketing?
14+ years?
Congrats, really a long-run marathon!
your link to get the on ios app store isnt working.
Looks great, and I was also happy to see that it has offline capabilities and will sync once you have a signal. There needs to be more apps built using this model.
I've done a similar app and this was basically the reason why I'm discontinuing the app. You didn't have a polished offline-first sync solution back in the days and my homemade sync code is a spaghetti soup.
How many users?
Na, how many subscriptions/ARPU/churnrate and all this stuff are the relevant KPI here :-)
Maintaining it for 14+ years is a huge effort, so I expect somehow a stable business model behind it?