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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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Yes, check the installation page https://paisa.fyi/getting-started/installation/

Sorry I don't see any instructions to run this on Docker on that page. Do you publish an image to the Docker hub?

I meant, you could download the cli using wget and run it inside the docker. There is no prebuilt docker image as of now. I will look into it later.

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This looks awesome. I love that it's built on ledger. I have been wanting to move away from Simplifi Money for some time for obvious reasons (owned by Intuit). It seems that the real moat is pulling the data in a consistent and correct way. Yes, you COULD try to find every single export option for every bank, but I think Plaid is really the only service that pulls this data somewhat correctly, due to the U.S. not hav…

What is PSD2 and why is it important? Is it the basis for something like UPI in India?

It basically means OpenBank API mandatory just to financial companies, not to consumer, potentially any enterprise can ask to have OpenBank API access if it meet certain criteria and then it can get and commit any transaction from all EU banks. So potentially offer to their customers full API access to their EU banks, for anything, disposing transactions as well locally instead of via some crappy website. This also means having legally valid local transactions (XML/XADES or JSON/JADES signed by the bank).

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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.

Basically translating it to Swedish, which I don't mind helping with! In other words, i18n support.

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I'm a longtime user of gnucash and this is a great product to convince me to move to ledger/hledger. Question for author - Is it mostly a reporting tool or does it work similar to h/ledger where I can input my transactions from paisa? Question for HN users - have you found ledger to be easier to use compared to gnucash? My challenges have been my lack or ease of understanding on how to input transactions in ledger an…

> Question for author - Is it mostly a reporting tool or does it work similar to h/ledger where I can input my transactions from paisa?

It's a reporting + import/editor tool. The goal is to have a app that handles all the common use cases without going to command line.

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

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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.

Basically translating it to Swedish, which I don't mind helping with! In other words, i18n support.

Got it, it's too early for i18n

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Cannot used legally.

Third party cookies aren't illegal in Europe.

But are these third party…? Maybe I’m just way behind. If you use cookies to track usage of your site, isn’t that kinda second party?

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

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This looks awesome. I love that it's built on ledger. I have been wanting to move away from Simplifi Money for some time for obvious reasons (owned by Intuit). It seems that the real moat is pulling the data in a consistent and correct way. Yes, you COULD try to find every single export option for every bank, but I think Plaid is really the only service that pulls this data somewhat correctly, due to the U.S. not hav…

One option I'd recommend for anyone working towards this is to use the SimpleFIN Bridge [0], which is basically an API wrapper around MX (a Plaid competitor) designed for personal use by the same people that make Budgeting with Buckets. Data security is definitely an issue, but I value having my transactions automatically imported more than I'm concerned about the risk of SimpleFIN being breached. I've personally use…

Wow, very cool thank you for sharing!

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https://actualbudget.org/ Actual has OFX support! Really great tool

Damn, how did I miss this? Looks like a really nice "self-hosted nYNAB". Only downside is that the native apps are unmaintained since the project went open-source, and the web UI isn't responsive (yet) - but looks like there are decent efforts to make the web UI into a usable PWA, if those succeed this may be my move away from nYNAB.

We've been working on getting the electron app up and running, you can download beta builds of it already, and I think it's mostly there.

Yep - There is on-going work to get good mobile support on the web app too!

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I remember that! I really liked it. What happened to it? And what are you upto these days?

It is a long story, but here is the short from my perspective. I left after a year and made the mistake of spending two years building an audio-video dating app. Poor men’s FaceTime-ish tech, but the business failed. However, I sold/transferred the tech to an investor. When we released its beta, early users were happy with the new-age design and one of the best user experiences in a web app for India. Later, I heard…

Interesting journey for all of you then. Why did Moneycontrol sue? I wish they had the foresight of buying the tech from you guys instead? The interface really was ahead of its time then. They could have used that.

Cool! What are you doing with climate?

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