sudizhe

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Co-Founder of Pry Financials and inDinero.
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Comment · 5 years ago
Love summit too :)
Comment · 5 years ago
<3
Comment · 5 years ago
Please do! Ask us any questions using the in-app chat and we'll be happy to help you out!
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks for the feedback!

1. There are several tools that offer only the planning features. Our view is that budgets and actuals should be on the same system for the product to provide value over time. We may offer a free version with just the planning features in the future, but I built Pry for myself and I wouldn't like to use it that way.

2. Agreed. Documentation is one of those - if they complain, we'll improve it kind of things. And we've certainly heard some complaints about it here today.

3. Got good feedback on this from another user earlier too. We'll look into making our security practices more visible on our site since we work with finance data.

Comment · 5 years ago
Runway.com is a good team that is recently backed by a16z. They are still in early access development so I am not sure how our products differ. I think there are several people tackling this problem and that's a good thing for founders and entrepreneurs overall.
Comment · 5 years ago
Glad to hear that you like what you see.

* I will keep this around as long as people find it useful. My last company was founded in 2009 and is still around. There is still a lot more I want to build for Pry so 3+ years is no problem for me.

* I actually really hate the idea of customers as the product. I know this product has valuable financial data. We have raised funding and I have always tried to prioritize good investors who align with this value over the ones offering the most money. You’ll have to take my word on this one.

* You can export the report data to google sheets. Our formulas cannot yet be exported. We will work on an API at some point to address this.

Comment · 5 years ago
Yes. I have worked on this product for over two years. Our pricing does not scale with revenue and we are ready for general access; 14-day free trial for anyone to try.
Comment · 5 years ago
More like: you know, we need to advertise to make sales so that’s like a cost of revenue... insurance too...

We ran into this at inDinero.

Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah. I like Taimur, Lukas and the Causal guys a lot more :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Good call. Thanks for the feedback!
Comment · 5 years ago
We have some happy customers from outside of the US. They usually use Xero and integrate that to Pry. We do have customers using Quickbooks online in Canada.

If you have a bank that is not supported by Plaid, it's not going to work. We will build more API integrations.

Comment · 5 years ago
We give month by month data in much more detail. Also thinking of building some custom models for buying a house, retirement, college education, etc. But again, this is probably not happening for a couple years - or unless we struggle to enter the small business market.
Comment · 5 years ago
Pry staff cannot do any withdrawals. We use Plaid for our third party access and they are widely used. If we sold, I have no idea. But we have 24 months of runway right now and no plans to sell.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah, we may move this to a $100k in expenses instead in the future. If your costs are in "COGS" then it won't count. For now, we do not allow for this because we don't want to incentivize founders to stuff as much stuff in COGS just to pay us $50/mo less. I have seen people do silly things like this before.
Comment · 5 years ago
Totally understand. The web platform is still the fastest to develop on (at least for me). I have an idea for moving everything to native apps and keeping data offline, but it's pretty far down on the roadmap T.T

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