[tinosar]

Author here. I'm a certified accountant. I ran my own finances in a double-entry Excel/VBA system for years because the off-the-shelf options forced a choice I didn't like: GnuCash (correct, but heavy enough that even I dreaded the daily entry) or the app-store budgeting apps (pleasant, single-entry, cloud-hosted, usually wanting a bank login).

So I built a local-first double-entry desktop app — a plain local database file on your own machine, no telemetry, no aggregator. Happy to talk about the local-first trade-offs (no auto bank sync is the price), or why I went one-time-purchase instead of subscription. Not here to pitch — genuinely interested in how others in this crowd handle their own books.

[goodmythical]

The bank might not appreciate it, but couldn't you extend with a headless browser to scrape your bank occasionally or even on demand when the program launches?

I've been using hledger and I usually just plug in purchases as I make them, but I do that on purpose because it's like a self-balancing checkbook so I'm always aware of what's going where.

[akgoel]

What's the difference betweeen this and either Quicken or Microsoft Money?

[nicpottier]

Did you write the blog post entirely on your own? It reads like AI slop to me but maybe I'm just getting more sensitive. I can't decide whether we are all starting to mimic the same turns of phrase that LLMs like to use or whether just nobody writes anymore. I suspect the latter.

[randlet]

The cadence and wording sure reads like AI to me. OP, personally I find this really off putting and does not make me want to learn more about your app.

[coldpie]

It's definitely AI slop, yeah:

> It's also the work of one accountant who happens to be the daily user, built with a lot of AI assistance.

[Narishma]

The comment you're replying to is clearly AI slop as well...