[calderarrow]

ufincs looks very cool! During my December holiday, I was thinking of making a web-based platform that had a more modern UI than GNUcash, and it looks like you built it already!

Just curious, what's your tech stack, how long have you been working on it, and how many users do you have?

[devinsit]

That's exactly what uFincs is, a modern version of GnuCash! I had the exact same thoughts as you did :)

The simple tech stack breakdown is that the client-side is React + Redux + TypeScript + Sass. Of note, I use redux-saga, which has been an absolute boon for some of the more complex flows.

Design system is completely custom.

Backend API is Node + Feathers. Database is Postgres.

Marketing site is served separately from the app and is React + NextJS + Tailwind CSS.

I intend to write up a more complete breakdown of the tech stack sometime in the future.

In terms of how long it's taken to get this far, longer than I'd like to admit... there was a version '0.1' that was built as a capstone project over the course of 2019, then the redesigned version (uFincs as it exists now) that's been ongoing since the start of 2020.

And the user situation can look... misleading. I only 'officially' launched last week, so for the longest time the only user has been le-moi (and some friends that did testing), but I actually did just acquire my first paying customer yesterday!

[dazuaz]

"but I actually did just acquire my first paying customer yesterday!"

Congratz!

[devinsit]

Thank you!

[gowld]

Is it open source? That's a critical aspect of the "Gnu" part of GnuCash.

[devinsit]

It definitely isn't. At least, not yet. I've been thinking through different ways we could handle that aspect, but I don't have any concrete plans to open-source uFincs at the moment.

[jchanimal]

Assuming you had a perfect plug-in/extension system where I could write some JavaScript to create my own behaviors, that might do 80% of what people are looking for in the open source question.