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Re:Show HN: Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker by bvrmn on Monday January 27, 2025 @09:47AM (#42841649)
Amazing project!

> I built this mainly around the habit of budget tracking at the end of the day.

I've built 3 personal financial trackers. 2 CLI based and last a web-based to be able to serve it in termux as a local android app.

Anecdote: the only thing which make it usable in the end is a joint account (most transactions are happened there) which reduced monthly transaction count to low acceptable level and did not become a chore without fancy importing from bank statements. Joint account allows to record only transfers and not individual expenses. It easily could be a separate account for small expenses, it has a low value to know which kind of grocery takes most of money.

Re:Show HN: Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker by EnhancedJax on Monday January 27, 2025 @10:15AM (#42841952)
Cool, are they open source? Would love to check them out!

> which make it usable in the end is a joint account (most transactions are happened there) which reduced monthly transaction count to low acceptable level

I'm not sure if I understand...