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Re:Show HN: Transity – Plain Text Accounting by gamblor956 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:32PM (#17242669)
Those are extremely basic financial terms. If you (meaning the generic you, not you specifically) can't understand them you really shouldn't be doing your own accounting.

It would be like creating a niche programming IDE for people who don't understand the term "computer" or "programming" or "code."

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Re:Show HN: Transity – Plain Text Accounting by adius on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:52PM (#17242800)
And that's exactly what e.g. Zapier and Airtable Blocks do ... and quite successfully so.

In specialized communities there is a lot of gatekeeping just by their slang. If I can explain something in plain english without using numerous technical terms, I've mastered the first hurdle to make it more accessible.

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Re:Show HN: Transity – Plain Text Accounting by gamblor956 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:26PM (#17243056)
A cursory view of their homepages reveals a large amount of tech "lingo" that require a fair amount of computer savvy, so nothing at all like what I'm describing.
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