“I’m loving the hell out of Wesabe; it’s a tool I’ve wanted for literally years!”

It’s the most important project I’ve ever worked on so check it out.

I was recently in the hospital under heavy sedation (long story). Apparently the drugs made me extremely chatty and I began to explain to all of the doctors how I was building something that was going to change the world and then questioning them on how they managed their finances (the anesthesiologist used Excel). Even sober, I still believe that.

Most people go through life not knowing where their money goes, not knowing wether they’re getting good value from the people they give their money to, and too guilty to do anything about it. They say they’re too lazy to enter their spending in to a program like Quicken, blaming themselves when they should really be blaming Quicken for being such a crummy product. Meanwhile corporations are gathering more and more data on you so that they can come up with new and more sophisticated ways to part you from your money.

Wesabe thinks organizing your finances shouldn’t be a chore and that you should be keeping tabs on the people you give your money to so that you can find the good merchants and avoid the cheats. For the most part we’ve built something that does this. And we’re getting closer to those goals every day.

The rest of the company are Marc Hedlund and Jason Knight, founders, who write the Wesabe blog, Brad Greenlee and Coda Hale, rails gurus, and Jeff Fassnacht, designer.

I hope this explains why financial tips randomly started showing up on my blog.