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Re: Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets

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Post by sumedh »

devinsit wrote: post #39
sumedh wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there something similar to gnucash but with better UX?

I built uFincs ( https://ufincs.com ) basically because I got fed up with GnuCash's UX. It only supports importing CSVs right now, but I'm open to adding other formats. It's also a web app rather than a desktop app, but you're free try it out/use it without an account ( https://ufincs.com/noaccount ) and all of your data will just be kept in your browser.

It looks good but I dont want to pay 120 per year, maybe 50-60.

There is also another risk that you have access to my name and my financial status :)

Re: Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets

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Post by throwawayswede »

I can't reply on @robertsbernans's comment for some reason, but his previous comment definitely did not mention that he's a cofounder of this Nordigen, so he deleted it and made a new one to make it seem "transparent" only after being called out, which makes this whole thing even shadier.

Re: Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets

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Post by kureikain »

denimnerd42 wrote: post #32
kureikain wrote: post #10

I have been toying with this idea and my solution is to use email. Everytime I made purchase my bank (BankOfAmerica) send me an email, I parse that email and write data to a google sheet. It's great because I don't need to give credential to service like Plaid. I used webhook of service like https://hanami.run and configure my bank to send email notification to name@domain.com (my own domain). Hook it up with hanami.…

I'm interested, had the same line of thought, and a bofa customer too. Mind pushing anything you have to github or similar?

Yes, going to clean it my code(bunch of hard code and manual stuff) a bit and share it. Always want to do it.

Re: Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets

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Post by throwawayswede »

sumedh wrote: post #29
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…

Is there something similar to gnucash but with better UX?

GnuCash's UX is great.

Re: Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets

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Post by jesterson »

throwawayswede wrote: post #52

I can't reply on @robertsbernans's comment for some reason, but his previous comment definitely did not mention that he's a cofounder of this Nordigen, so he deleted it and made a new one to make it seem "transparent" only after being called out, which makes this whole thing even shadier.

Wow, I thought this is just an upsell to his API but things seem to be more complicated

Re: Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets

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Post by robertsbernans »

throwawayswede wrote: post #52

I can't reply on @robertsbernans's comment for some reason, but his previous comment definitely did not mention that he's a cofounder of this Nordigen, so he deleted it and made a new one to make it seem "transparent" only after being called out, which makes this whole thing even shadier.

IDK why you cannot tag me in the comments, but there was only one comment in the first place mentioning me being the co-founder. You can check when was the post posted and my comment. Sorry you got that impression.

Re: Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets

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Post by [deleted] »

Blahah wrote: post #15

Good interoperable APIs for banks, and ways for people to be able to access and use their own data: +10000 better future points Connecting my bank account to google sheets: -1000000 I do see the intention and the utility - people should be able to easily access and make sense of their data from whatever source and in whatever form. That you are enabling that and showcasing examples is admirable. Google services in pa…

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Re: Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets

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Post by robertsbernans »

Blahah wrote: post #15

Good interoperable APIs for banks, and ways for people to be able to access and use their own data: +10000 better future points Connecting my bank account to google sheets: -1000000 I do see the intention and the utility - people should be able to easily access and make sense of their data from whatever source and in whatever form. That you are enabling that and showcasing examples is admirable. Google services in pa…

This project was just to showcase functionality of Nordigen APIs.

The foundation of this are APIs for banks which you can use in any way you see fit and is completely independent from services like Google Sheets.

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