Comment by wiether
9 hours ago
> If you found something perfect for you that works >5 years, holy crap. You are blessed.
Having been unable to find an out-of-the-box app fitting my needs, I built my own personal finances app in 2012 and I'm using it weekly since then.
I'll probably work again on it one day because the technical stack is old, which makes it harder to host, but otherwise it still does exactly what I want, how I want it.
> That honestly should not be the standard for tools these days—ESPECIALLY in a today’s world.
Maybe I'm not interpreting it correctly, but you make it sound like having a perfect system for more than 5 years is unhealthy.
Whereas, I'd say it's quite the opposite.
Back to my finances app, since I'm using it I've been able to focus on improving/mastering other parts of my life. Not having to get back to find another system to manage my personal finances means that I'm able to focus on other stuff.
I have a hard time seeing how that would be a bad thing?
I think its not that its unhealthy, it's that things are unfortunately such that its arare and beautiful thing when it happens and if you expect more you are bound to be disappointed.