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Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

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I have been using plaintext accounting for some time and had a duct-taped together reporting system. Paisa is my latest attempt at making it usable for others.

I am interested in knowing what people normally want to understand about their finances

PS: Please avoid editing the demo data. Download and run locally if you want to edit.

Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
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I honestly just use excel but that's because I use it as a book of record for receipts as well. Since you're looking for open source alternatives, OpenOffice would fill that need.

Also used excel previously. Then I switched to an ios app that sync with all my different bank accounts so I don't have to record stuff manually.

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#5
I am probably the target audience for this kind of thing, but I’m having trouble seeing myself slog through hundreds of household transactions every month (or putting in the time to automate transaction imports from my credit union and credit cards). I’m happy to huck money at YNAB to do all this for me, on top of which they give me an app that my wife and I can both use to check the budget and enter transactions on our phones. Reconciling the accounts and budgeting for the next month becomes maybe a half-hour exercise. Whereas with Paisa I see nothing but entire weekends lost in service of the machine.

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I am probably the target audience for this kind of thing, but I’m having trouble seeing myself slog through hundreds of household transactions every month (or putting in the time to automate transaction imports from my credit union and credit cards). I’m happy to huck money at YNAB to do all this for me, on top of which they give me an app that my wife and I can both use to check the budget and enter transactions on…

There is import option available on Paisa, but I agree, it won't match YNAB level experience.

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#8
This is incredible!

Great job building this and also writing the documentation that explains concepts as well as how they are implemented.

I can't believe how many comments here are dismissive. If you are happy using a paid solution to manage your finances and don't want to get into the weeds yourself, you are probably not the target audience for this.

One suggestion would be to make the country-specific pieces like tax calculations module so others can contribute their own.

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#10
What's with the thousand separator being placed on every 2 digits except for the last 3 digits?

How do you even do that, unless you manually regex it?

If that's the case, already looks weird on technical decisions.

There's never a decent open source self finance management app somehow.

It's either bloated or just doesn't look easy on the eyes for simple day to day use.

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