Rushabh Doshi

Monty Frugal - Messenger Bot to help you track and predict your expenses

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Diego Zaks
I'm trying it out, seems like a big ask for someone to go and type out all their expenses. Have you considered ways to automate this? (A.K.A. link you bank account and get the info)
Fasih Khatib
@diegozaks1 Lead dev here. Yes, in the future versions we'll let you connect to your bank / credit card. And did you know that the bot understands emojis? Try sending it a food emoji for fun ;) Checkout the new features here: https://medium.com/@fasihxkhatib...
Uri Eliabayev
One of the best bot i have ever used (I used a lot). it's very easy to use and i really love the chat flow. Keep the hard work!
Rushabh Doshi
@urieli17 Hey Uri, thanks for the kind comment, appreciate it. We are striving hard to solve the problem of expense tracking. We believe chat is the answer to a simplified way to log the expenses. If there is any feature you would like us to add, we would love to explore it. Cheers
Fasih Khatib
UPDATE: emojis, receipt recognition, and receipt management added to the bot. https://medium.com/@fasihxkhatib...
Rushabh Doshi
Monty Frugal is a Messenger-based bot that helps you keep track of your expenses, receipts, and helps you stay in budget. It answers complicated questions like 'how much did I spend on food between 1/1/2016 and 1/5/2016', makes charts, sends reminders, and even asks you to tweet about it. More here: https://medium.com/@fasihxkhatib...
Benjamin Kimo Twichell
Cool bot! Great for me for me as I'm in france where linking bank accounts is rare so I don't miss that feature. I do miss a couple other features: 1) adding historical expenses. If I want to start using this I need to add all my July expenses so far or wait until Aug 1 for this to be useful. 2) This might be against the concept, but I would love to be able to login somewhere or at least get some type of visualization of my expenses. If I'm going to be typing in all my expenses 1 by 1, I need to have more control of the summary of the data.
Fasih Khatib
@benkimotwichell 1) You can add historical expenses by sending '200 on food 3 days ago' or similar. 2) We do have a pie chart for now. We plan to add more visualizations soon. Also, what kind of summary would you like? :)
Seb Jachec
This is really neat – receipt scanning, emails and pie chart especially. Even though it doesn't affect anything, would be cool to set a currency too. Seemed to have an issue with decimals as well – adding $29.99 in one category, then $10 twice in another category put the total as "$49.989999999999995".
Fasih Khatib
@iamsebj Bug. Will fix it ASAP.
Daniel Vassilev
@Fasih_Khatib How are you able to create the buttons that float above the text message button? Very cool UI but can't seem to find it in the messenger docs.
Fasih Khatib
@danvass They are the called quick replies. Here's the blog post about them: http://messengerblog.com/bots/me...