The Balancer

[cngodles]

http://www.15656.com/dev/balance/

This site is used for simple balance sheets. You visit the site, and you login to use any number of balance sheets that you may keep. These are simply accounts.

This is a beta site as well. There is no web content, just the programming centerpiece.

I've actually been working on this one for over 2 years. It started out straight html/php/mysql, but after learning ajax I added that functionality to the project as well.

I personally use this to do my budget each month. I enter how much income I have, and use this to deduct my bills.

There are two known bugs.


When logging in, if you don't have any balance sheets, the ajax interaction will not work. You'll have to create a new sheet, switch to control panel view, then switch back to the project to make it work. I'm not 100% sure why, but this will get fixed.

When in edit mode, if you change your mind and add something instead of submitting the edit, the newly added item will just be a code of your edited item. This is probably due to the fact that the form fields are named the same.


I'm free to hear any naming/design suggestions. It does what I want it to do, I just have not marketed it yet.

I was either planning on giving free acounts with ads, or just charging $5-10 a year for the service. Not sure which one.

Future Thoughts


I may let users share accounts, so that more than one user can contribute on shared accounts.
I may let accounts that wish to broadcast the data via XML to do so. Also as an RSS feed. Maybe some other standards like cvs, etc.
Plans for a "printable view" as well.

[roondog]

I had a quick play and it works really well. I think where you have the list of balance sheets you should have an edit option as well as the go and delete. When you click on go it just shows the balance sheet rather than allowing to edit it.

I think also when its had a bit of a design added to it, it could be a very good tool. I think you'd have to look at similar sites to decide how much to charge.