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by huhtenberg 2982 days ago
Not to nitpick:

> 100% more Bees than any other personal finance software

100% over a zero is still a zero.

3 comments

@mingabunga in the comment below explained it better than I can: "It's just a catchy headline, it doesn't really make sense but is comical/nonsense so it makes you stop and pay attention to it. I think it's brilliant."
I recently had to implement "percentage differences while also supporting 0". Took a while to explain that, while we can come up with solutions to support that desired feature, it's mostly arbitrary and not based in math lol.
And even if a competitor had one bee, it only means they have two bees.