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The YNAB Podcast

037 - What IS YNAB Anyway?

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2012

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of an eventful, learning-filled, stressful launch of YNAB 4…what IS YNAB?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, why neighbors, my name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 37 for you need a budget,

0:17.0

where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to pay check, get out out of debt and save more money. Today I want to

0:26.2

talk about what Wynab is. We have just come off of a, well, our biggest launch ever of Wienab 4.

0:34.8

I would call it a success.

0:36.0

I made some pretty big mistakes over the last year

0:39.2

and made some mistakes specifically with the launch.

0:42.2

Biggest mistake was just not waiting until the iPhone app was ready.

0:46.8

Taylor disagrees with me.

0:47.7

He thinks it was fine to get it in people's hands faster.

0:51.0

Android people are having fun with it. It just caused too many, for me it was just too much

0:56.8

of a headache. We should have just waited. I mean we've delayed the launch, not delayed.

1:02.0

You know we wanted to launch it a lot faster than we did, and that's always

1:07.1

the case with software. Anyway, so I learned that. I would have waited and just had everything in a row. We took a risk, it wasn't a risk worth taking.

1:16.0

That's pretty much what I've determined.

1:18.0

I also learned that we need to be better about being brutally honest.

1:22.0

I don't intend to deceive.

1:24.4

I'm pretty honest at heart.

1:26.7

Like I don't have a desire to trick people.

1:30.8

But I was thinking about this and I actually wrote about that in a fairly big threat on our forums all about the iPad and what the status is there, but I was just talking about how we need to be brutally honest with people and it's not something

1:44.6

you want to do.

1:45.6

When someone writes in and says, hey, it would be great if you could add this feature and let me explain

1:48.8

it to you and they're really excited and then you listen to their feature and it's okay or it's horrible or it's awesome or it makes

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