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Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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Re: Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by boredtofears »

plibither8 wrote: post #117
boredtofears wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What software have you used that does this? So far every time I've relied on automatic categorization for this sort of thing it fails horribly. I don't think I've used anything that's GPT based though.

> What software have you used that does this? I wrote my own script that uses the GPT API. For automating bank transcation downloads, it's just a cronjob that runs ever X hours and scrapes the information from the banking website.

Would you be willing to share the prompts you use?

Re: Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by lelo_tp »

mekster wrote: post #10

What's with the thousand separator being placed on every 2 digits except for the last 3 digits? How do you even do that, unless you manually regex it? If that's the case, already looks weird on technical decisions. There's never a decent open source self finance management app somehow. It's either bloated or just doesn't look easy on the eyes for simple day to day use.

lol, this is such an aggressive reaction. People won't always live where you live. Be kind to others, don't assume there's something wrong until you gather the full context.

Re: Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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sbehere wrote: post #52

I think it helps if personal finance managers explicitly describe at least the following: 1. What automation, if any, exists for entering transactions? This is the most laborious/cumbersome part of personal finance. Some tools use financial data aggregators (plaid, yodlee etc.) that involves sharing login credentials with a third party, sometimes disabling 2FA, or other steps that are anti-security or anti-privacy. I…

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Re: Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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sbehere wrote: post #52

I think it helps if personal finance managers explicitly describe at least the following: 1. What automation, if any, exists for entering transactions? This is the most laborious/cumbersome part of personal finance. Some tools use financial data aggregators (plaid, yodlee etc.) that involves sharing login credentials with a third party, sometimes disabling 2FA, or other steps that are anti-security or anti-privacy. I…

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Re: Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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velcrovan wrote: post #5

I am probably the target audience for this kind of thing, but I’m having trouble seeing myself slog through hundreds of household transactions every month (or putting in the time to automate transaction imports from my credit union and credit cards). I’m happy to huck money at YNAB to do all this for me, on top of which they give me an app that my wife and I can both use to check the budget and enter transactions on…

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Re: Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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asveikau wrote: post #94

I wondered about the name. I guess I'm unfamiliar with a bunch of South Asian references, apparently it is Hindi and related to currency: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%B8%E... I was perplexed a bit because paisa (like paisano , countryman) is also a word I hear a lot among Latin American immigrants in the US, seems like one of those things that can be taken offensively but I mostly seem to h…

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halotrope wrote: post #57

This looks great! We've been building a wealth tracker with https://markets.sh and were a bit flabbergasted when people started "abusing" our automatically syncing Yodlee connection to hook up all of their checking and credit card accounts (technically we market only for brokerages and investment accounts). We have a free and simple API and plain CSV download which in itself seems to be a real pain point for people.…

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Re: Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by AlanYx »

waynesonfire wrote: post #82

i won't use any finance manager that doesn't employ the envelop method, like ynab. looking at the demo for 10 seconds it looks like a web based gnu cash.

You can easily do the envelope method in ledger (aka. ledger-cli if you're searching for it), which is the back end for Paisa.

Re: Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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Post by ananthakumaran »

tmikaeld wrote: post #15

This is great! If you could add multi-language support, then I'm sure my family will use it :) > I am interested in knowing what people normally want to understand about their finances For my family use cases - seeing upcoming expenses and how much is left in the account on the specific dates in a calendar time-flow view, this way we can see how and when things are spent and if new entries are added we can plan for h…

I don't know what you mean by multi-language support. But calendar view on Budget page is something I can think about. I will soon add a calendar view to Recurring page.
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