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

by jakubgarfield on 6/20/17, 10:03 PM with 46 comments

  • by lklklkj2342487 on 6/20/17, 11:10 PM

    >Don't share sensitive data with 3rd party.

    Correct me if I'm wrong but it stores the data on Google's servers in which case you're actually sharing it with a third party.

  • by raldi on 6/21/17, 1:23 AM

  • by coldfire on 6/20/17, 11:58 PM

    I used to log every spending in an expense manager before but found it redundant. Now I've built a selenium utility that logs into my bank account every morning (deployed on cloud), calculates my last day's spending and remaining budget and sends me an sms at 8:30 on how much I've left to spend today and savings projection! Haven't touched any finance app ever since
  • by Vinnl on 6/21/17, 7:27 AM

    This (and basically most PWA's) could use RemoteStorage [1] perfectly, to be independent of Google.

    [1] https://remotestorage.io/

  • by sleavey on 6/20/17, 11:10 PM

    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.
  • by akerro on 6/21/17, 9:10 AM

    > with Google Sheets backend for privacy

    Read it once again out loud, slowly.

  • by tonmoy on 6/20/17, 11:19 PM

  • by methou on 6/21/17, 1:50 AM

    Why not use ledger as a backend, it's free and opensource and can also be hosted on whatever cloud you want and encrypted.
  • by sjroot on 6/20/17, 10:46 PM

    Looks nice and clean. Would be nice to add a page that visualizes expenses over a period of months.
  • by viraptor on 6/21/17, 11:16 AM

    That looks great. I've just only just finished writing an automated importer of bank transactions into a spreadsheet, but I've been using Airtable instead. I was going to write some interface, but maybe this can be reused instead...
  • by 1ba9115454 on 6/21/17, 6:39 AM

    Technically I love the use of PWA and material design.

    I hadn't seen material.io used in an application and it looks great.

  • by mxxx on 6/21/17, 3:08 AM

    nice one. something like this has been on my "things to build when i get some spare time" list for a while; i've used a bunch of budgeting and expense tracker apps and never found one that quite ticked all of my boxes.

    thanks for sharing :)

  • by 659087 on 6/21/17, 12:32 AM

    > Google Sheets backend for privacy

    Umm.. what?