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

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From the GitHub readme: Technologies Used Frontend React: JavaScript library for building user interfaces. React Router: Declarative routing for React. Tailwind CSS: Utility-first CSS framework for styling. Radix UI/Shadcn: Accessible UI components. Recharts: Charting library built with React. Backend / APIs React Query: Data-fetching library for React. Zod: TypeScript-first schema declaration and validation library.…

Why are you posting an excerpt of the Readme without any additional comment?

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

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I've developed an app for my own use (which doesn't look anywhere near as good visually!).

My biggest pain points were cleaning the account data, to make it suitable for import, and getting the appropriate prices so I can see the value of the accounts at any point.

My financial institution has two sets of downloadable CSV files - one for cash movements, one for stock transactions. They don't include stock symbols, just a "description" which occasionally changes. I'd suggest a plugin system where uploaded statements can be transformed first (depending on where they are from) into the common format your app imports. This would provide a useful point where people could contribute to the app.

Pricing is something I found hard too - I also use yahoo for current prices, along with a couple of other sources. Historical price ranges can be very hard to come by, at least for free and in easily accessible forms.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am not willing to manually navigate a dozen banks' broken UIs to find their "download CSV" > My #2 requirement (a close second) is that the application must be running on my local PC. I will never accept a cloud-based web-app You're lucky you don't live in the EU since well then you are straight out of luck since the bank APIs are only available to commercial entities thus the software generally is in the cloud a…

Obviously the UK is not the EU... but Starling Bank offer an API that you can use to access your personal bank account. I'm sure Monzo and other neo-banks offer similar functionality.

Open Banking predates Brexit, so lots of that stuff got carried over into the Brave New World.

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

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Any recommendations for a privacy-focused app that can handle transaction splitting in ways other than 50/50? Or tracking accounts from multiple people in a household? Every app I've tried this is painful or unsupported.

I created https://github.com/VMelnalksnis/Gnomeshade for myself, transactions have separate transfers which are between accounts, and purchases, which allows to categorize your spending. This setup also allows to easily handle multiple currencies.

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

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post #232

I've developed an app for my own use (which doesn't look anywhere near as good visually!). My biggest pain points were cleaning the account data, to make it suitable for import, and getting the appropriate prices so I can see the value of the accounts at any point. My financial institution has two sets of downloadable CSV files - one for cash movements, one for stock transactions. They don't include stock symbols, ju…

> They don't include stock symbols

even better than stock symbols would be if the whole world could agree to use ISINs (or even WKNs)

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

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post #232

I've developed an app for my own use (which doesn't look anywhere near as good visually!). My biggest pain points were cleaning the account data, to make it suitable for import, and getting the appropriate prices so I can see the value of the accounts at any point. My financial institution has two sets of downloadable CSV files - one for cash movements, one for stock transactions. They don't include stock symbols, ju…

That's why I like Portfolio Performance. It includes access to historical quotes.

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

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tried it quickly on a personal machine running windows; all attempts at submitting `BUY`s for popular tickers (regardless of price, tax, quantity, ticker, date) seem to result in an unknown error. Notably, I tried having the account match the ticker's currency, but that does not fix it.

This feels like an MVP at best.

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

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""" Prerequisites Ensure you have the following installed on your machine: Node.js pnpm Rust Tauri """ Sorry but all these languages and tooling just for a simple desktop application is a pass.

You do realize these prerequisites are steps to _build_ the application and that you can download the binary directly, right? Right?

Yes. I'm surprised you assume people on HN don't know what a compilation is.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about Wealthfolio, but the import QFX/OFX/CSV/etc. into GnuCash has ways to reconcile that with transactions you've manually recorded/edited, which can be much richer than the bank or CC knows. (GnuCash also has a way to import via network access, but I haven't tried it.) (Example of richness: splitting am Amazon CC charge into the multiple expense accounts for the items that went into the order, and als…

That's exactly my problem. Assigning the purchase of a new computer mouse to the "Expenses:ITEquipment" account? Easy if you purchased the mouse at your local computer store and used your debit card. Just define a text pattern to make any purchase from that store go to the ITEquipment account and run it against the csv from your checkings account. Same purchase from amazon? Difficult, because you have two layers of i…

You just need one more account. The card payment is just a transfer to an "Amazon Balance" account or something. Then the individual items are entries against that account.
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