Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service

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Post by strzalek » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 11:02 PM UTC

Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
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Re: Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service

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Post by markdown » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 1:09 AM UTC

The headline makes it sound like they'd released a new SAAS app, but it looks like they're just talking about internal infrastructure.

Re: Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service

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Post by joshuakelly » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 1:11 AM UTC

I actually submitted a YC application for the upcoming batch to work, more-or-less, on exactly this idea - a double entry accounting service for developers.

Re: Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service

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Post by jldugger » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 1:31 AM UTC

> immutable

Man, don't fuck up.

Re: Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service

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Post by jannyfer » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 1:35 AM UTC

jldugger wrote: post #4

> immutable Man, don't fuck up.

It’s fine to fuck up. Just catch it in time and create a new entry to reverse it.

Re: Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service

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Post by bcheung » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 1:39 AM UTC

jldugger wrote: post #4

> immutable Man, don't fuck up.

That's what correcting entries are for. Not an issue.

https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/correcting-entry-de...

Re: Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service

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Post by jen_h » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 1:44 AM UTC

joshuakelly wrote: post #3

I actually submitted a YC application for the upcoming batch to work, more-or-less, on exactly this idea - a double entry accounting service for developers.

This sounds like something internal...I don't think developers or typical small businesses need (or would want to!) to store their double-entry accounting database in shards across Google Cloud Spanner & Kubernetes clusters...

Good luck with your application -- I, for one, think there's a need for it. I've wished for years that someone would put something like a secure, web-based Gnucash out into the world.