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Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

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Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

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Post by keyle »

picardo wrote: post #17
TexanFeller wrote: post #9

"Local Data Storage. No Subscriptions, No Cloud" This is what we need more often from our software, especially from software that works with sensitive data. I do typically want sync options though since I tend to use several different devices and it sucks not being able to reference information on the go from my phone. Sync options can include locally/self hosted options or use something like iCloud that don't depend…

> This is what we need more often from our software, especially from software that works with sensitive data. Storing sensitive data in local storage makes you vulnerable to XSS attacks and Man-in-the-Browser attacks. You're exposing your sensitive data to an attacker that injects a script to the website and to malicious browser extensions. All sensitive data stored in local storage must be encrypted using a key stor…

This 100%. People need to stop thinking that somehow their browser storage is a safe place to store sensitive information. It isn't and it is volatile and can get trashed by software updates and other reasons.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

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Post by mp05 »

dgemm wrote: post #181
ryandrake wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an avid, daily Quicken user, yes, seamless integration with financial institutions is my #1 requirement. I am not willing to manually navigate a dozen banks' broken UIs to find their "download CSV" option, hope it works, download a bunch of files to my computer, and then hope that they can be imported into my application--and then repeat every day when I update. I have in the past switched physical banks purely be…

Interesting perspective because my #1 requirement is that no 3rd party gets financial login credentials at all. I'm willing to do CSVs in order to not compromise on security, although the experience most certainly is bad.

Interesting that you're this paranoid, but yet you trust banks.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

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Post by brailsafe »

This is the second time I've looked at this and I can't get past the chart having no labels or axes. I have no investments at all, but I feel like if I wanted a chart, I'd want to not be required to interact with it to see information. Likewise with the Apple-esque ambiguous financial goal progress bars or whatever. Is it 60% or 20 out of 30 dollars over what period of time? Feels like removing information didn't help here.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

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Post by langcss »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #105
admn2 wrote: post #83

is Plaid inherently bad? Is having an automated way of pulling in real time data worth the security risk of authing into all your bank accounts? Genuinely asking as this seems great in theory, but I'm a bit confused what it looks like to manually keep it updated.

Yes, but the fault lies with the banks who do not allow their own customers access to their data. Plaid, Intuit, and other private companies scrape financial institutions unless they provide more secure methods to obtain customer data, and most of them do not do this. So the state of the art to connect to banks... is Selenium with stealth modifications. I own a business which does the same work as Plaid, Intuit, et a…

An open source repo of selenium scripts for different banks would be a decent thing.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

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Post by brainless »

This looks beautiful. I am building in the same way, a private app, runs on desktop, same tech stack.

I have a very generous free tier and I want to add two paid tiers. I have to figure out a license check that doesn't leak user information.

I would love to collaborate with you and also hear about your future plans for monetization.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

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Post by alanbernstein »

grepLeigh wrote: post #196

I strongly encourage you to charge (lots) of money ASAP. I love the open source, offline, rent-free ethnos but also if you've built something truly valuable, charge money for it. Donations don't count as a viable monetization strategy. Even if the software is free and you're just offering $500/hour consulting as an add-on to the software, that helps me trust the project has sticking power. P.S. I think Tauri is such…

I think this is the mindset that ruined the web.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

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Post by maidh91 »

maidh91 wrote: post #200

Thank you for a great project Fadil. I would love to contribute to open-source projects like yours. Could you share the roadmap? How do you think of making it running in mobile browsers and mobile native apps? I would love to be part of it. One more thing is to integrate with API from brokers/exchanges.

@a-fadil Code review pls: https://github.com/afadil/wealthfolio/pull/46

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

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Post by jmb99 »

mp05 wrote: post #202
dgemm wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting perspective because my #1 requirement is that no 3rd party gets financial login credentials at all. I'm willing to do CSVs in order to not compromise on security, although the experience most certainly is bad.

Interesting that you're this paranoid, but yet you trust banks.

There’s a massive difference between trusting banks (insured, backed by the state, etc) and trusting some random SaaS/web app you saw 10 minutes ago with access to said banks.

Re: Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

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Post by zymhan »

mp05 wrote: post #202
dgemm wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting perspective because my #1 requirement is that no 3rd party gets financial login credentials at all. I'm willing to do CSVs in order to not compromise on security, although the experience most certainly is bad.

Interesting that you're this paranoid, but yet you trust banks.

At least in the US, you don't have to trust a bank. You just trust the FDIC.

Also, what a glaring false dichotomy.

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