[muznar]

I literally had to reinstall this to a new free instance on Saturday after getting my instance deleted accidentally.

I have been tracking and exporting backups of my finances using Firefly since 2020. I am young, my finances are nothing fancy, they are mostly credit card purchases, my salary, and my rent.

I love the flexibility of personally serving this on a dedicated server. Similar to the other commenter it consumes a lot of my time too. I tried to automate by writing small custom shortcuts in Apple Shortcuts for repeated things like posting a grocery purchase. Firefly has a comprehensive API, I have widgets on my homescreen showing my credit card balances at all times etc.

I like knowing how much I spend on grocery each month, how much I spent clothing last year vs this year, the effect of having a Costco membership. It is fun and I am sure in the next 10 years it will be so much more interesting looking at data from early years.