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Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

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Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

#121
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I have all my self hosted services set up with authentication through SSO now. Does this support that?

Nope! Just shipped the self-hosted web app in Docker. No SSO yet.

For whatever reason, it really bothers me when people call containers Dockers in 2025

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

#122
I downloaded the iOS app. I like the simplicity. I wonder if it could even be a bit simpler.

I currently do a quarterly financial review. I document the balances from all of my accounts.

In addition to buy/sell/deposit/withdrawl, could Wealthfolio have an option to just add a balance. I suppose In the meantime, I'll make do with deposits and withdrawals.

Last, could you make it a little easier to find to donate button? Or possible at all? Now that I have the app open, I can't find where to send a one time payment.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

#123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one where I don't quite get the angle of hosting locally to preserve privacy. By nature of the economic system, you must interact with 3rd parties, unless you somehow live a life where you can manage to be all crypto or (increasingly harder) cash based. At that point, there is no real benefit to privacy outside of ensuring that whatever institution(s) you work with aren't doing anything odd. I'm open to missi…

It’s more about having the optionality to not be tied to a SaaS provider and trusting them with all your financial data and bank credentials. Having options to: 1– Install a piece of software and run it locally, no subscription, no cloud 2– Have to right to use a nicer app instead of a spreadsheet 3– not hand over your banking creds. Some banks will void your account insurance if you do 4– Reduce your exposure by not…

It's also maybe more useful in the US where we're behind the times w.r.t. better APIs for accessing banking & investment data

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

#124

I love the idea of keeping my finances private while still having a useful tracker/planner. And I love that this would give me some protection against a new version making things worse. I also love the option to write my own plugin or to hack the source code itself (even though I probably wouldn't). But I don't think I'm willing to give up fully automated data refreshes at this point. I have too many accounts to trac…

This is one where I don't quite get the angle of hosting locally to preserve privacy. By nature of the economic system, you must interact with 3rd parties, unless you somehow live a life where you can manage to be all crypto or (increasingly harder) cash based. At that point, there is no real benefit to privacy outside of ensuring that whatever institution(s) you work with aren't doing anything odd. I'm open to missi…

Well, one of the benefits is that it won't go away.

I used Mint for years, and I LOVED it. Hooked it up to all my accounts, it could track purchases and spending and kept everything up to date automatically. It would remember how I categorized things.

Of course, then Intuit decided to get rid of it and force everyone to move to Credit Karma, which doesn't do the same things AT ALL. I don't care about tracking my credit scores, and I pay off all my credit cards every month, I don't need help finding a loan for anything. The only thing it does is try to offer me loans and credit cards. It doesn't have any transaction history, so it doesn't do the one thing I care about.

The decade+ of transaction history I had in Mint was just GONE. It really sucked, and I have not found a replacement yet.

I don't mind if it is hosted, or even if I have to pay for it, but I would like to be able to keep my historical data, and for it to automatically populate from my accounts, and not go away if a company decides it can't make money from it anymore.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

#125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one where I don't quite get the angle of hosting locally to preserve privacy. By nature of the economic system, you must interact with 3rd parties, unless you somehow live a life where you can manage to be all crypto or (increasingly harder) cash based. At that point, there is no real benefit to privacy outside of ensuring that whatever institution(s) you work with aren't doing anything odd. I'm open to missi…

Well, one of the benefits is that it won't go away. I used Mint for years, and I LOVED it. Hooked it up to all my accounts, it could track purchases and spending and kept everything up to date automatically. It would remember how I categorized things. Of course, then Intuit decided to get rid of it and force everyone to move to Credit Karma, which doesn't do the same things AT ALL. I don't care about tracking my cred…

I love the transaction history in YNAB. I refer to it all the time.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

#126
post #58
post #21

For those interested in this type of single entry accounting (and by extension double entry) Here are some other ones I've tried and used in the past: https://copilot.money https://lunchmoney.app https://ynab.com https://beancount.io https://hledger.org

But why one or the other? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a curated list of suggestions, but it would really be useful to have some tips or comments on the experience of each one, their shortcomings or advantages. Otherwise, it's not much better than just checking out a list of names from Google :)

I will use hledger if I'm handling someone else's money, like as a trustee. Double entry accounting is nice for being precise about things. But for my own accounts it's too much overhead to deal with reconciliation. Don't have time for that.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

#127
I greatly look forward to the day when the Godot team focuses on UI tools and workflow, a layout and theming engine, and slim UI-focused builds. So we can avoid this total nonsense local-server React-UI insanity. This is such a stupid way to build desktop applications.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

#128

I love the idea of keeping my finances private while still having a useful tracker/planner. And I love that this would give me some protection against a new version making things worse. I also love the option to write my own plugin or to hack the source code itself (even though I probably wouldn't). But I don't think I'm willing to give up fully automated data refreshes at this point. I have too many accounts to trac…

This is one where I don't quite get the angle of hosting locally to preserve privacy. By nature of the economic system, you must interact with 3rd parties, unless you somehow live a life where you can manage to be all crypto or (increasingly harder) cash based. At that point, there is no real benefit to privacy outside of ensuring that whatever institution(s) you work with aren't doing anything odd. I'm open to missi…

Trusting some random VC-backed SAAS not to sell my data is (to me) as mad as trusting that the tide won't come in - it would be astonishing if they _didn't_ sell my data.

My bank has both commercial & cultural reasons not to sell my ID & transaction history. They might still do it anyways, but it's at least plausible that they wouldn't, if only due to the harm to their reputation if it ends up in the papers.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

#129
post #21

For those interested in this type of single entry accounting (and by extension double entry) Here are some other ones I've tried and used in the past: https://copilot.money https://lunchmoney.app https://ynab.com https://beancount.io https://hledger.org

beancount + the web ui for it, fava, is what I end up going back to whenever I look for the sort of tools. Downside is I'm way behind on my ledger and don't _really_ want to spend the effort inputting everything to catch up.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

#130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one where I don't quite get the angle of hosting locally to preserve privacy. By nature of the economic system, you must interact with 3rd parties, unless you somehow live a life where you can manage to be all crypto or (increasingly harder) cash based. At that point, there is no real benefit to privacy outside of ensuring that whatever institution(s) you work with aren't doing anything odd. I'm open to missi…

Trusting some random VC-backed SAAS not to sell my data is (to me) as mad as trusting that the tide won't come in - it would be astonishing if they _didn't_ sell my data. My bank has both commercial & cultural reasons not to sell my ID & transaction history. They might still do it anyways, but it's at least plausible that they wouldn't, if only due to the harm to their reputation if it ends up in the papers.

You mean your bank that shares your info with its marketing partners unless you explicitly opt out, that bank?
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