[pcglue]

I use Quicken, but not happy with it since they moved to annual subscription model. But with more than 20 years of data in it, I'm locked in. Looking to migrate to beancount, but the data migration is hard. I'm contemplating starting anew with beancount and forgoing my historical data. I could easily do without the data, but something psychological is at play, and I can't get over it yet.

[jotakami]

Yeah I bailed on Quicken about 5 years ago and never looked back. Using GnuCash now, and it’s awesome because I can store the data in a local Postgres database and do whatever I want with it.

[nicolaslem]

I love GnuCash!

The learning curve is a bit steep if like me you have to learn both the software and the concepts of double entry accounting. It took me a few iterations to get it right but now that it's rolling I couldn't be happier.

Since my girlfriend and I share some of our common expenses I developed a web app à la Splitwise/Tricount that can export transactions to GnuCash. It works very well but I never polished the thing, I wonder if it could be useful to other GnuCash users.

[jotakami]

Oh man, my current project is to automate accounting for my cryptocurrency trades in GnuCash. I trade very high volume, futures and options, so being able to run a cron job to automatically pull the data from APIs, calculate gains, and load it into the GnuCash schema will literally save me hundreds of hours per year in accounting overhead. Once it’s done I bet I could easily sell it for $100s to other crypto traders.