Things Mint.com should do, but doesn’t
Mint.com is great, but there’s a lot of very obvious features it could use:
- An offline data uploader applet, so that I don’t have to store my username/passwords to the web. I don’t know about most people, but I have trust issues with stuff like that.
- Depreciate cars. Right now you just plop in the value of your car, and that’s it– since Mint.com doesn’t know the make/model/year of your car, it has no way of judging the value of it other than what you specifically type in.
- Recognize Bank of America ATM withdrawals by default. Not only is Bank of America one of the largest banks in the US, but ATM transactions specifically show up with the descriptive all-caps text: “BANK OF AMERICA ATM WITHDRAWAL” on them. Despite that, they showed up in my Mint account as “Mortgage Payments.”
- Similarly, a purchase from Steam Powered.com (i.e. Valve’s Steam game service) showed up as a coffee purchase. I’m pretty sure that Valve’s Steam is bigger than whatever podunk coffeeshop is also named “Steam Powered.”
- If I tell Mint I don’t have a credit card, it should remove the “Credit Cards” section from my homepage. The “add account” wizard seems to be smart enough to stop asking when I say I don’t have one, but the homepage isn’t similarly smart.
- Also, there’s a bug with their lightbox where sometimes it’ll get taller than the browser window and become impossible to close. Wasn’t just me on this one, a friend saw it also.
I gripe because I gripe a lot, but Mint.com really is a good service, and I think it’ll be very handy to me. Since I’m godawful with money, generally.
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