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Is there anything like a self-hosted alternative to Mint? The automated balance and expense tracking is really nice but it's obviously a security and privacy ni

• bobblywobbles 7y ago
  As the author of a free open-source budgeting software, you yourself own all your data, nothing goes off your computer. Of course it's not as fully-fleshed out as Mint yet, but it's getting better every commit: https://github.com/reZach/my-budget https://github.com/reZach/my-budget
  • astura 7y ago
    The GP expressly mentioned the only selling point of Mint: "automated balance and expense tracking," Mint imports data automatically without any user action. Unless your software does this, your audience will be extremely limited. Budgeting software has been ubiquitous since the dawn of personal computing, that's a solved problem.
    • bobblywobbles 7y ago
      There's support for this, but it's limited at the moment. Getting OFX supported is a priority of mine (in the meantime, it uses screen scraping to pull transaction data).
• petronio 7y ago
  Having looked into this before, the big issue is actually the web scraping. If you don't mind pulling the data manually there's software like GNUCash that can do not only what Mint does but even more. Maintaining the web scraping rules for numerous banks is a full time job (probably multiple) in itself though.
  • jbarberu 7y ago
    I'm using GNUCash. I used to manually go through receipts and check against bank transaction history. That wasn't exactly sustainable so I wrote a python script to take the CSV that most banks will export and spit it back out in a nice and consistent format for importing into GNUCash. I could potentially explore the scraping capabilities of GNUCash, but with my current method it reminds me to pay down my current credit card balance while doing the exports.