Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets

Post by coreyja » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 12:33 AM UTC

benatkin wrote: post #14

GormanFletcher wrote: post #11

Another option in this space is Tiller ( https://www.tillerhq.com/ ). They seem well-established, and offer some spreadsheet templates for plug-and-play solutions to some common budgeting scenarios. If you don't care about spreadsheets specifically -- if you're just looking for scriptable access to your financials -- Lunch Money ( https://lunchmoney.app ) has a public API. They'll also be opening the beta of rollover…

I got it mixed up with Teller https://teller.io/ , which is an alternative to Plaid, and whose CEO was rooting for Miami and lambasting SF (I like both), along with posting other controversial opinions https://twitter.com/bitandbang/status/1346181103531552769 Hmm, this tweet lists some other Plaid alternatives - Yodlee, which I heard of but forgot about, and Quovo, which I don't remember hearing of https://twitter.co…

Post by RicoElectrico » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 12:50 AM UTC

rawtxapp wrote: post #18

cookie_monsta wrote: post #5

So this tool helps me share my transaction history with something called Nordigen and... Google? Is this a joke?

Wait until you hear about this company called Plaid (valued at ~13B$) which is used by a lot of FinTech companies to access your bank account. They take your username/password in cleartext and go ahead and scrape and do as they please with the data to prevent fraud (oh and if 2fa blocks them from scraping, they'll ask you to disable it). How is this even remotely acceptable blows my mind. My alternatives to transfer…

Post by thedougd » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 1:08 AM UTC

GormanFletcher wrote: post #11

Another option in this space is Tiller ( https://www.tillerhq.com/ ). They seem well-established, and offer some spreadsheet templates for plug-and-play solutions to some common budgeting scenarios. If you don't care about spreadsheets specifically -- if you're just looking for scriptable access to your financials -- Lunch Money ( https://lunchmoney.app ) has a public API. They'll also be opening the beta of rollover…

Post by okareaman » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 1:10 AM UTC

mcs5280 wrote: post #22

Google and my bank account. That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.

Post by sumedh » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 1:27 AM UTC

neilv wrote: post #16

If you want to import banking data for tracking your personal finances or small business, there's also GnuCash, which you can run locally. https://gnucash.org/ I haven't used its online data-fetching features, but instead save manually save OFX and QFX files periodically from banking Web sites, and later import them into GnuCash (which includes transaction matchup features). I also use the statement reconciliation fe…