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Show HN: Expense Tracker as a PWA with Google Sheets backend for privacy

94 pointsby jakubgarfieldalmost 8 years ago

13 comments

lklklkj2342487almost 8 years ago
&gt;Don&#x27;t share sensitive data with 3rd party.<p>Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong but it stores the data on Google&#x27;s servers in which case you&#x27;re actually sharing it with a third party.
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raldialmost 8 years ago
&quot;What&#x27;s a PWA?&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;progressive-web-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;progressive-web-apps&#x2F;</a>
coldfirealmost 8 years ago
I used to log every spending in an expense manager before but found it redundant. Now I&#x27;ve built a selenium utility that logs into my bank account every morning (deployed on cloud), calculates my last day&#x27;s spending and remaining budget and sends me an sms at 8:30 on how much I&#x27;ve left to spend today and savings projection! Haven&#x27;t touched any finance app ever since
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Vinnlalmost 8 years ago
This (and basically most PWA&#x27;s) could use RemoteStorage [1] perfectly, to be independent of Google.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;remotestorage.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;remotestorage.io&#x2F;</a>
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sleaveyalmost 8 years ago
My solution is to use GnuCash with a git repository. I then use Google Keep to make notes of expenses on the go and once every few weeks I copy them in to the accounts. That way I get the full power of accounting software, with control of my data.
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akerroalmost 8 years ago
&gt; with Google Sheets backend for privacy<p>Read it once again out loud, slowly.
tonmoyalmost 8 years ago
Deja vu <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14279653" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14279653</a>
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methoualmost 8 years ago
Why not use ledger as a backend, it&#x27;s free and opensource and can also be hosted on whatever cloud you want and encrypted.
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sjrootalmost 8 years ago
Looks nice and clean. Would be nice to add a page that visualizes expenses over a period of months.
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viraptoralmost 8 years ago
That looks great. I&#x27;ve just only just finished writing an automated importer of bank transactions into a spreadsheet, but I&#x27;ve been using Airtable instead. I was going to write some interface, but maybe this can be reused instead...
1ba9115454almost 8 years ago
Technically I love the use of PWA and material design.<p>I hadn&#x27;t seen material.io used in an application and it looks great.
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mxxxalmost 8 years ago
nice one. something like this has been on my &quot;things to build when i get some spare time&quot; list for a while; i&#x27;ve used a bunch of budgeting and expense tracker apps and never found one that quite ticked all of my boxes.<p>thanks for sharing :)
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659087almost 8 years ago
&gt; Google Sheets backend for privacy<p>Umm.. what?
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