- My personal bias is that anytime I see on a software company's website footer that they're a GmbH, I know it will be selling high quality, durable, reliable software ;)
Congrats on your continued success!
by chrisvalleybay
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- I love this. I also built a business like that[0]. It's super niche. I have maintained this small business for soon to be 13 years now. Most of what has worked has been maintaining great relationships with the few customers I have.
I think the most important thing for me have been offering amazing support. I always reply to all e-mails right away and make it my top priority giving them my best help.
Congratulations on your success, and best of luck going forward!
[0] https://www.mino.no.
by combocosmo
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- Nice project! I built a CLI budgeting project a long time ago, and what made me stop using my own project was the lack of automated integration with my bank accounts. At that point I had many credit cards, multiple bank accounts, in different currencies, and integrating all expenses was just too much manual work.
I wish financial institutions were better at automated exports of your financial data, given the right permissions of course.
- Just some constructive feedback. Your site needs a little bit of work on design and copy.
"test your personal user account one month free for." and other (translation?) mistakes.
Your use of capitalisation and spelling is not consistent throughout each page.
FAQ page is empty?
Quick Manual page is empty?
iOS download link doesn't work.
Your security posture boils down to "we're German, trust us"?
by koakuma-chan
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- > Unfortunately, our security system has detected malicious access from your computer to our website. For the protection of our system the access was temporarily blocked.
???
- Nice work. I started around same time as you 1996. I was selling professional dj software as shareware called ClubDJ Pro from 1999-2012 before coding for the app store as well.
Impressive that you have created one app and stayed focused this whole time. I ended up creating multiple apps and having a couple acquired and moved on to other projects, but maybe I have ADHD lol.
I like your website, but I did find two dead links to the appstore here https://primoco.me/en/apps
These links do not work. I believe you want /us/ not /en/ for the links
http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/moneycontrol/id465909912?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/haushaltsbuch-moneycontrol/i...
Anyway, keep up the good work and nice app.
Cheers,
Greg
- I had a remarkably similar journey. I started with a small shareware app around 2004, an FTP client for Windows that had moderate success. There was a guy named Steve Pavlina who ran a blog where he explained his shareware business extremely well. He was very inspiring to me and ultimately convinced me to abandon the corporate programming job and become an independent software developer.
After much effort, I was earning enough from the FTP client to make a living, so I wanted to develop another app to diversify my risk. That one was a failure. I persisted and developed a third app around 2012: an email automation tool for Windows, something I actually needed myself. This one was also a success.
Finally, around 2020, I decided to focus exclusively on the email automation tool and develop a browser-based version of it. I've found that if you want to build something worthwhile, it's better to focus—even at the cost of more risk. That decision turned out to be the right one.
- Some basic questions from a cybersecurity vulnerability researcher:
- what kind of authentication protocol stack is used
- what algorithm is used for network protocol encryption (hash, block, encryption)
- is data centrally stored, if so, is it encrypted at rest? Key stays in phones?
- any accounting audit done? (Moot but just a check mark in a small-family-business-oriented checkbox)
Great pricing!!
- The questions that come to mind for me:
1. How long after releasing the iOS app did you start on an Android version?
2. Are you using some kind of cross-platform framework, or are the apps mostly “mobile-friendly web views”?
3. How much code is shared between the three architectures?
4. How much of the app functionality is “server based” instead of “on device”?
by jfancherla
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- I have been paying my bills by computer since the early 80s. The key feature I wanted was check printing. These days I only write about 3 or 4 checks a month. For the past few years I have been using Banktivity but they have gone to a subscription model so I expect soon my copy will no longer run. I use it mostly for cash flow planning. Mac based so I would have to gin up something in Numbers to track expenses. Not looking forward to getting Numbers to print checks. Are you aware of any open source budget app that might give me a head start? If Apple ever gets around to running iOS apps on my MBP I would certainly consider your utility.
- Small typo on https://primoco.me/en/price: "conenction to a paid WebApp"
- I think there's something wrong with whatever bot/abuse detection you're using.
I got an error about "preventing attacks" the first time I tried to load your site.. and then again (I assume) in German when I clicked somewhere else. One time out of 10 I got a real page (I think) but it was also in German.
- Other than the fact youve been preserveering (or even thriving) for so long - which is way more that can be said of many solopreneurs or startups - what do you think makes your app/biz so resilient in finding/keeping such long term customers?
by ahartmetz
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- Interesting! I know next to nothing about iOS development, but surely there have been major changes in frameworks and expected look (often connected)? Which changes were there over the years and how and when did you follow them? Did it turn out good or bad to follow early / late?
by MajidAliSyncOps
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- This really resonates. Long-term maintenance, reliability, and staying useful over years is the hardest part of building software — and often the most overlooked. Respect for prioritizing sustainability over hype. That mindset is what actually creates real products.
- Congrats! It's not easy to build something people want and will pay for. It's even less easy to do it for 10+ years.
That's all I wanted to say - as much of a milestone as version 10 is - the past 9 were amazing as well.
by DarkSkyGhost
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- >The mobile apps (iOS, Android, etc.) can be downloaded from the app stores and tested free of charge. Simple in-app purchases or the conenction to a paid WebApp unlock the Premium Features.
Typo in 'conenction'
- Amazing to see such a long tenure in that competitive market. Thanks for sharing!
I wonder, apart from the normal exposure/distribution on App Store, what are the main strategies you've used for marketing?
- How do you market your software?
Did you learn how to become a marketer and took it as a persona? What have you learned how to market your software in the past 20 years as a developer?
- Looks great, and I was also happy to see that it has offline capabilities and will sync once you have a signal. There needs to be more apps built using this model.
- Your site is overly zealous about blocking people.
by MrGilbert
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- As a German - I'm sure you've looked into integrating FinTS and therelike? What made you decide not to integrate any of that?
by samschooler
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- I've also been blocked on my home network (CO, USA). Any insight into how your block system is working?
by ktbwrestler
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- this is cool, but you have a typo under "Manage your finances with MoneyControl"
>Primoco ist not free and with good reason. Learn more about our offers and create your personal budget book with a free test.
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by KellyCriterion
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- 14+ years?
Congrats, really a long-run marathon!
- your link to get the on ios app store isnt working.
- How many users?
by andrewmcwatters
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