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Monarch
Company blog · monarchmoney.com/blogbusiness
Monarch is the company blog at monarchmoney.com, writing about business. Since 2020, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Show HN: Monarch – The modern way to manage your money”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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28mentions?
16HN people?
2020–2025first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (20) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked mostly to promote the Monarch Money budgeting app, which commenters like for its UI, lack of ads and reliable syncing as a Mint replacement. One Mint-shutdown blog post is cited as useful insight.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 20 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Manage your money with Monarch. Track accounts, build budgets, monitor investments, plan goals, and get a clearer view of your finances in one app.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Monarch – The modern way to manage your money6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-05-10
- /blog/mint-shutting-down3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-02
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-23
What Hacker News says?
From their Privacy Policy[1], they are: > We use Plaid Inc. ("Plaid") to gather End User data from financial institutions. By using our service, you grant Monarch and Plaid the right, power, and authority to act on your behalf to access and transmit your personal and financial information from the relevant financial institution. You agree to your personal and financial information being transferred, stored, and proc…
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on “What happened to Mint?”Submitted Pre-Built iOS Binaries: Reducing React Native Dev Start Time to Seconds as a story · 11 points
HN discussionCo-founder of a (yet to be launched) Mint competitor here [1]. One pattern I think we all see over and over again is when products get bought by a large company, they often lose their "soul" (and the original team). Both those things happened with Mint. Another important pattern I've seen is that products, in the long-term, morph to take the form of their revenue model. Many personal finance products are free, but m…
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on “What happened to Mint?”Submitted Show HN: Monarch – The modern way to manage your money as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI can’t recommend Monarch strongly enough. It is a service that aggregates across bank accounts, brokerage, credit cards, etc. The killer feature for me is that it provides overall money in/money out, with some good visualizations too. This is nontrivial for anyone using multiple credit cards or bank accounts, and is *critical* information for being a responsible adult IMO. It also has budgeting, investment tracking…
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on “Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers”Submitted Pre-Built iOS Binaries: Reducing React Native Dev Start Time to Seconds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMonarch Money | Various Engineering Roles (Security, Product, Infra, Design Eng) | REMOTE (US, LatAm, EMEA) | Full-time | https://www.monarchmoney.com/careers We've built the best-in-class personal finance tool. We saw a 10X growth in revenue over the past 12 months, hit cash-flow profitability, and expect another 3-5X growth next year. We're looking for help on the Product Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted Pre-Built iOS Binaries: React Native Dev Start Time from Minutes to Seconds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMonarch Money | Remote | Mix of Software Roles | Full-time We are Monarch Money—a tool to manage your personal finances. We're a small team (<20 total) but are seeing a ton of growth. We're hiring for fullstack engineering, infra, mobile. Our stack is React/React Native, GraphQL, and Python/Django. Also doing some interesting things with Postgres. https://www.monarchmoney.com/careers
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)”I'm building an app to do this, will let you know when it's in beta. :) Meanwhile, some of the similar apps that store data locally I've come across are: - https://copilot.money/ (nice UI; partly local—think it might use CloudKit for syncing) - https://ufincs.com/ - https://actualbudget.org/ I feel like http://monarchmoney.com is still the best UI I've come across, but I can't believe how common it is for all these…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)”This might be just what you're looking for: https://www.monarchmoney.com/ Although I'm not sure how it compares to YNAB since I've heard good things about it too. What I like about Monarch is the nice UI, no ads, responsiveness and that the sync doesn't fail (often) like it failed (often) with Mint all the time.
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on “GnuCash”I’ve been using Monarch lately and I love it. https://www.monarchmoney.com/
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on “Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access”I've been using Monarch for the last 6 months when I heard Mint was shutting down. It's been a dream to use and I feel good paying directly for software that I believe they will continue investing in. It even supported more bank/credit connections than Mint was able to. I referred my sister last week and I got a discount. So I am going to throw this out there in case anyone wants to try it: https://www.monarchmoney.…
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on “Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams”Sounds like you would benefit from Monarch. I use their Sankey features for visualizing expenses ( https://www.monarchmoney.com/features/spending )
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on “Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams”Monarch Money | Full-time | Remote (North / South America) We're a Series A-funded company that's building the a personal finance product to help Americans (for now) understand and manage their finances, as well as get financial advice and plan for future goals. We've been distributed since before Covid and can hire anywhere in North or South America. We're growing revenue 40% month-over-month. We have a pretty stel…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”I personally enjoy Monarch. Nice looking UI, full financial picture like Personal Capital but they use multiple data aggregators to sync your data and most institutions you sync they allow you to choose which aggregator you want to use. Link to site: https://www.monarchmoney.com/ If you are feeling charitable, my referral link: https://www.monarchmoney.com/referral/d8nz9odkbx
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on “Ask HN: Alternative to Mint.com?”Monarch as a financial management tool / Mint replacement. Ref link: https://www.monarchmoney.com/referral/chszg37bgv Regular link: https://www.monarchmoney.com/
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on “Ask HN: Share a product you loved using in 2023”I use https://www.monarchmoney.com/ and I review my transactions weekly. I like that it lets you roll budgets over month to month. I don't like that changing a forecast item changes all the following months.
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on “Ask HN: How do you manage your household cashflow?”The CEO from Monarch gives a nice insight in a blog post: https://www.monarchmoney.com/blog/mint-shutting-down
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on “Mint is shutting down, and it's pushing users toward Credit Karma”It's always sad to see products that were truly innovative when they came out end up getting neglected and sunset due to large co M&A-based strategic decision-making. Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders of Monarch Money, a (paid) competitor to Mint founded by the original PM on Mint.com. I had written a HackerNews front-pager a couple years ago about why Revenue Model is More Important Than Culture [0], and my co…
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on “Mint is shutting down, and it's pushing users toward Credit Karma”I pay for a budget app. https://www.monarchmoney.com/ But somehow I got in on their beta, and felt like they did a good job and wanted to continue to support them. But they've been around for quite a few years now, so I think they are pretty successful..
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on “What are fast ways to earn 1k USD monthly with a side project?”Looks like people likes Monarch. I actually saw the article after reading it first there - https://www.monarchmoney.com/blog/mint-shutting-down
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on “Mint Is Shutting Down”I used to use YNAB which was very helpful in learning and getting comfortable with budgets. I now use monarch money[0] which has a much broader focus and offers better investment tracking, forecasting etc. They have a cash flow view which is particularly insightful. A lot of the finance related subreddits are helpful (like personalfinance, bogleheads etc) for advice, planning, ideas etc. Also a fan of The Money Guy…
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on “Ask HN: How do you manage your personal finances?”I use Monarch. I pay a monthly fee for it, but it has zero ads, tracks all the accounts I care about, and gives me a simple interface for the "envelope method" on web and mobile. I've used Mint, YNAB, and several other tools. This is my favorite that I've found so far. Link: https://www.monarchmoney.com/ Referral link: https://www.monarchmoney.com/referral/chszg37bgv
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on “Ask HN: How do you manage your personal finances?”