cliftonc

So my mother in law and I disagreed about how much of her furniture might fit in their new flat (they are downsizing), so like anyone today I thought 'I can build something fast for that' .... so movinghouse.app was born. Then I thought "this could be fun", so I built a game for it. There are certainly moments when I am absolutely convinced that jevons paradox is 100% correct, and the ~7-8hrs i've spent on all of this (and two paying customers so far!) are definitely proving that right :D feedback and ideas welcome - just wanted to share.

At this point it would rely on the person embedding it in their app to get that data, put it somewhere, and then add a Cube definition on top of it - so this is purely solving the visualisation / report building part of that puzzle (but in a fully embedded / non iframe way).

I used Cube as inspiration, and actually the rest API for drizzle-cube is compatible with the cube-js schema definition. The main difference is that I chose to model the cubes in typescript, so they can be validated in the IDE easily (autocomplete, catch issues early) and not have an option for YAML, but the semantics are exactly the same.

I definitely meant Excel, we use office365 - easily as shareable as Google sheets these days. Agree anaplan and friends also have downsides, but for me the complexity you end up in as you change things through the year and need to explain the impact of the change becomes too complex in Excel. We manage a team of about 220 people, when I had a team half the size it was more manageable.

Excel, but it's painful - as any change's through the year make it very hard to compare and contrast actual to budget (e.g. a simple rate change from a supplier vs adding someone to a team, moving different rate people between teams) and quite challenging to do different scenarios (e.g. impact of different inflation levels for different roles / countries). It is possible but requires a lot of discipline and excel expertise from everyone to make it work. I am exploring using a planning & budgeting tool (anaplan, pbcs).

I am a very happy Bunq customer for 4+ years, and as a user of other Dutch banks (for a mortgage - ABN amro, in the past UK banks like FD), their overall service levels great - if I chat via the app I have always been helped quickly, flexibility with accounts, cards, automation via the APIs etc is absolutely worth the price hike. These are things I am happy to pay a few extra cups of coffee a month for as they make my life with an extended family much easier to manage day to day.