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by haberman 3772 days ago
Anyone who is into Ledger-like double-entry accounting and looking for a project to hack on, check out my very-early-and-rough project "DoubleBook": https://github.com/haberman/dblbook

The idea is to run the app in a web browser using IndexedDB. It's written in React and all client-side, so I'm hoping this could run in a web browser or as a native app. It could also run purely client-side as a Chrome App so you don't have to trust a server.

I've put a ton of work into the data layer, which is pretty functional, but I'm a backend guy and not very fast at writing UI's. If anyone is interested in helping me on the UI I'd love that. (Fair warning: since I'm a Googler by day I released this as a Google Open Source project, and to contribute to it you'd have to sign the Google CLA. I understand if some people might not be into that).

It even has a (very rough) importer from Ledger format.