Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by Noumenon72 on Saturday December 08, 2018 @10:33AM (#18635677)

Microsoft Money. I didn't have to give access to all my accounts to some website, or pay an annual subscription for upgrades. I got keyboard shortcuts and reports and I could search for things to find out how old my computer is or when I went to Vegas.

It seems like in the physical economy, if you create something of value and you aren't making money off it, you will sell it and someone else can make money off it. With software like Picasa, it's just gone. Some programs release a sunset version, but you never know how long it will work and you can't promote it because they might take it down.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by napsterbr on Saturday December 08, 2018 @10:39AM (#18635710)

The interface may not be the same, but I highly recommend http://plaintextaccounting.org. I've used ledger and currently am using beancount. Both are great!

There's also gnucash, never used but its interface may be similar to Microsoft Money (which I also never used).

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by sleavey on Saturday December 08, 2018 @05:12PM (#18637852)

I've found Beancount [1] to be a nicer version of Ledger. It is similar syntax but it enforces rigid rules to ensure you don't make as many mistakes. You can also use Fava [2] as a nice local web-based account browser.

[1] http://furius.ca/beancount/

[2] https://beancount.github.io/fava/

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by jen729w on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:24PM (#18638364)

I’m a tortured Gnucash user. The best I can say of it is that it’s free, and it works.

I would not recommend anyone start using it if they are not already.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by ksherlock on Saturday December 08, 2018 @11:43AM (#18636036)

I use MS Money (2004 edition) in a Windows 2K VM. Unless I write my own finance software, I don't believe I'll ever stop.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by darshanrampatel on Saturday December 08, 2018 @05:20PM (#18637877)

You should be able to use "Money Plus Sunset Deluxe" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=207...) which works for me on Windows 10.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by mpnordland on Saturday December 08, 2018 @11:26AM (#18635950)

My Dad used Money 99 for years until he wasn't able to run it any longer. He switched to gnucash and seems to like it well enough.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by darshanrampatel on Saturday December 08, 2018 @05:21PM (#18637880)

In the case of Money, they did release a sunset version (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=207...) that continues to work...

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by shaklee3 on Saturday December 08, 2018 @08:05PM (#18638572)

I know it's not going to be popular, but mint.com has far more features and is a much better package all together. Yes, you need to give your bank login info.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by themodelplumber on Saturday December 08, 2018 @01:45PM (#18636747)

I use AceMoney for this, and it's still great after more than a decade of use in our businesses. Great support. Highly recommended.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by prepend on Saturday December 08, 2018 @01:35PM (#18636690)

Money dance is the closest I found that will download from financial institutions and auto import. I switched when my banks stopped supporting my Msmoney vm.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by Loic on Saturday December 08, 2018 @01:20PM (#18636603)

Since 2007 I have all my expenses (every single item, drugstore, stocks, funds, etc.) in KMyMoney. It works very well.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by spalt on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:55PM (#18637165)

yes!!!!!!! hate hate hate quicken with a burning passion.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by stevenicr on Saturday December 08, 2018 @06:06PM (#18638060)

The parent comment immediately reminded how I loved the ux and flow of "quicken home and business 98" - I have hated every quickbooks version since.

Didn't inuit buy and kill / sell quicken or something. If they would of just kept the ux wrapper from Qhnb 98 and layered that over the DB of quickbooks it'd be okey with me.

I too hate hate hate quickbooks, and price structure, layout and all that.

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