Hello Product Hunt! I'm the founder of Lemon. I started Lemon because I wanted to teach (Lemon comes from "Learn Money") and because I was tired of other PFMs peddling products and services that weren't a fit for me. You'll never see an advertiser disclosure on Lemon because we don't earn commissions on products.
Let us know what you think of the app and your feed.
There's been a ton of underwhelming products in this space and as someone who worked in consumer finance I'm generally not that big of a fan of most PFMs. Lemon's the first one that's really impressed me and I'm excited to see how the develops it further.
@bglasauer Hey Barrett. Check out my answer to Bill's question.
I like Mint (long time user), but always found it a bit unsettling that Mint can say they have "advice" for you when it's nothing other than a product referral. This is their advertiser disclosure: "The credit card offers that appear on this site are from credit card companies from which Mint.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site, including, for example, the order in which they appear. Mint.com does not include all credit card companies or all available credit card offers."
That is wild. And that will never be on the Lemon site!
@robinraszka We do show some offers based on you spending with the hope that it might save you money in the future. The long term vision is to increase financial literacy, which I see as a combination of 1) understanding where your money goes, 2) ways to save, 3) ways to earn more, and 4) ways to educate yourself about your current finances or a product you might be considering.
The first version of Lemon was very much like DuoLingo. It was an interactive, spaced repetition learning tool, but for personal finance instead of a language. I found it to be a bit abstract, so the scope broadened to allow connecting accounts. This allowed for more specific advice and insights.
These are a few more of the types of messages we're considering for the feed: https://lemon.co/l/advice
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