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Why did I write Quik Budget?

A few years ago my wife and I decided to buy a house. We found a new one that was due to finish building 6-months down the road. We did the numbers and realized that if we stuck to a pretty strict budget and maybe sold one car, we would be able to save the down-payment in the time remaining. At first we used the Quicken credit card for virtually everything so we could try to track the budget in Quicken but this was not a satisfying solution.

Finally I wrote a prototype of QB in Satellite Forms. By the end of the 6 months, we had saved so much money that, not only did we have enough for the down-payment, but we were able to pay off the car that we had thought we were going to need to sell.

I knew I was on to something so I started over in C++ and spent 4 months writing Quik Budget 1.0. The response has been fantastic. It has been really great getting email from so many people who have found Quik Budget as useful as I do. And, of course, many of you have had some great ideas that have resulted in Quik Budget growing up so fast.

Update: As of July, 2000 I was able to quit my full-time job to focus on Palm applications exclusively. Be sure to check out my new word processor, WordSmith, that I created with Blue Nomad, LLC.