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wasp
The batteries-included full-stack framework for the AI era. Develop JS/TS web apps (React, Node.js, and Prisma) using declarative code that abstracts away complex full-stack features like auth, background jobs, RPC, email sending, end-to-end type safety, single-command deployment, and more.
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Hasura
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
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plaintextaccounting
The plaintextaccounting.org website, a portal to the world of Plain Text Accounting.
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firefly-iii-fints-importer
Import financial transactions from you FinTS enabled bank into Firefly III.
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- GnuCash is right. It's also why I built my own finance app
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Minimal Viable Programs (2014)
Though see the Plain Text Accounting[0] movement for something maybe more unixy than Gnucash. I download .csv files from my bank and credit card issuers and import to hledger. hledger has its own rules engine for filtering/transforming imported entries, but you could also preprocess the files using any unix tool before importing if you needed to.
0: https://plaintextaccounting.org/
1: https://hledger.org/
- Hledger 1.50
- Hledger v1.50
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mdsh: Run Shell Scripts in Markdown Templates
I have been using hledger as my primary personal accounting software for years. I love that I can manage my ledger in plaintext and even use Git to version control and backup.
- Haskell: A Great Procedural Language
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Show HN: Puffin – a minimal terminal UI to manage personal finances
A simple TUI to view various financial reports of your personal finances. Uses hledger[1] under the hood for the accounting stuff.
[1]: https://hledger.org
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Show HN: GNU Make as a Task Runner
For historical interest (though to compare you really need to work with them over a period of time), here's a thousand line [Makefile](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/2d35b1051/Makef...) that was converted to a [Justfile](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/43c93eb37/Justf...). And here's the kind of template I used for multicommand shell scripts when trying those ([ft](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/43c93eb37/bin/f...), [tt](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/43c93eb37/bin/t...)).
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Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph
I'm surprised that there is no mentions of a great hacker-friendly plain-text accounting software called `ledger` https://ledger-cli.org/ in this thread. It has amazing documentation when it comes to understanding basic principles of double-entry bookkeeping and goes through many typical situations and usecases. There are also several forks, most popular and advanced is `hledger` https://hledger.org/ (h is for Haskell), which provides some neat features out of the box, such as a simple web interface. All of them are very primitive compared to "professional" accounting software, but in return it offers great opportunities for hacking around while ensuring validity of your books.
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Ledger
I've been using hledger[1] - similar tool but has more features like balance sheet, income statement generation with a plain text file for the last 3 years and it's been working out great. Before that I used iBank (rebranded as Banktivity) and don't miss it at all.
[1] - https://hledger.org
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simonmichael/hledger is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of hledger is Haskell.
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