What does HackerNews think of firefly-iii?

Has anyone tried https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii? It seems to be under active development but it always makes me nervous when the vast majority of updates come from one person. (What happens to the project when that person isn’t working on it anymore?)

Any HN users out there with experience with Firefly III (https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii)? Sounds interesting.

Well I love being able to visualize gains and losses in our monthly budget, goals, and upcoming expenses. I too have tried so many options including apps that link directly into my bank / credit (wasn't crazy about that.... But needed to find a working solution). Finally after years what has worked and still is for us is a self hosted solution called Firefliii https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

It takes some discipline to keep up with the flow but now that its part of my daily tasks it takes a few minutes a day before bed to do and it helps me keep an eye on where I'm spending. The one big thing is getting use to no more bi-weekly budgeting. Make it a one month budget and stick to it.

Best of luck to you and your family!

Firefly[1][2] is also a really useful personal finance app.

It's more akin to a self-hosted version of Mint. Combined with the Plaid connector[3], I find it the easiest to use for my workflow. And despite the instructions, you don't need a paid dev account. The free Plaid account will let you access up to 100 live financial institutions.

[1] https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

[2] Live demo: https://demo.firefly-iii.org/

[3] https://gitlab.com/GeorgeHahn/firefly-plaid-connector

if its just for your personal finance i would rather use firefly because it does not use third party services and is open source.

https://firefly-iii.org

https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

I would recommend against letting Google know anything about your finances. Maybe try self-hosted solutions that are open source, like Firefly III.

https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

Or instead using spreadsheets just use a self-hosted free software that is dedicate to personal finance analytics https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

I'm just trying this (free and open source): https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

I dislike giving all my data to (cloud)services like Ynab, who sell all your data/profile to others...