Why I built MyCashDash

I've spent most of my career sitting in the gap between product, building, and development. I've worked on big commercial software, run a software company through good years and bad ones, and built side projects that taught me as much as any day job did.

I built MyCashDash because I had three problems no app was solving properly.

I wanted to understand my own money

I look at my bank statement and I see a list of names and amounts. What I want to see is the story. How much did I actually spend at my mechanic this year? What did the bathroom renovation cost in the end? How much have I gifted my godchildren over the years? My bank can't answer those questions, and the popular personal finance apps want me to think about budgets instead of history.

I'd been using FreeAgent for the business for years and kept wondering why nothing like it existed for personal life. So I built one.

I needed to help with my parents' finances

My parents are at the age where help is welcome but autonomy still matters. They wanted help. They didn't want to feel like the whole thing had been taken over. I needed a way to manage their accounts alongside my own without the data getting tangled, and a way to bring family members in for visibility without giving them the keys to everything.

That's where Spaces and the two sharing paths came from. One Space for me, one for them, with proper roles. It works.

I've sat on club committees with the books in a spreadsheet

Anyone who's ever been the treasurer of anything (a sports club, a community group, a small charity) knows the routine. The books live in someone's spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is three versions out of date. Nobody really knows who paid their subs. There has to be a better way to run a small treasury.

MyCashDash treats this case as a first-class citizen. A Space for the club, the treasurer as an Admin, committee members as Members, individual players as account Owners with a split percentage. Everyone sees what's relevant to them. Nobody sees more than that.

About CloudCoding Limited

MyCashDash is built by CloudCoding Limited, a UK software company I established in 2010. CloudCoding has spent over a decade quietly building software, mostly for businesses, mostly in finance and operations. MyCashDash is its first consumer product.

CloudCoding has been independent and self-funded since 2010. No investors, no pressure to sell, no plans to disappear.

Being a small UK company means a few practical things. I answer my own emails. I'm not chasing growth at all costs. I can afford to make decisions that are right for users rather than right for next quarter's metrics.

What I want MyCashDash to be

Honest. No-nonsense. Owned by the user. The kind of software that does what you actually asked it to do, doesn't bury features behind upsells, and doesn't treat your data as a product to be sold. If you find a bug, tell me and I'll fix it. If you have an idea, tell me and I might build it.

Thanks for reading.
Jon