aswinmohanme
Re:AI Is Turning Engineers into Farmers, Doctors and Gardeners
on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:18PM (#48269946)
This is a blog post about how relying on coding agents are making software engineers who create every intricate function of a codebase, into farmers who grow codebases, doctors who make changes on these systems which they have not created and gardeners who try to the same process of farming to make the change.
AI Is Turning Engineers into Farmers, Doctors and Gardeners
Re:Show HN: Cycle - Integrated business banking, accounting and payroll
on Friday January 30, 2026 @07:08AM (#46823508)
I am Aswin (https://aswinmohan.me) and I am building Cycle. It's an integrated financial platform that combines business banking, an inbuilt accounting ledger and payroll. By combining them together we get additional context which we can use to automate much of the grunt-work associated with managing finance.
You can try out the accounting system here with no sign-up at https://demo.joincycle.co. You can join the waitlist to use it when we launch with business banking.
I have built the platform in Elixir, Phoenix, Inertia JS and React. I had launched it initially as workbill.co, as a standalone accounting platform, but later pivoted to this.
Show HN: Cycle - Integrated business banking, accounting and payroll
Building a new accounting platform as a solo, part-time founder
Show HN: WorkBill – Modern Alternative to QuickBooks
https://demo.workbill.co/inbox
Hi HN, I am Aswin Mohan(https://aswinmohan.me), a full-stack mobile/web developer. I have been working on WorkBill (https://workbill.co) for the past 6 weeks on the side and wanted to share it here.demo: https://demo.workbill.co/inbox (no signup needed) video-demo: https://www.loom.com/share/9775811960ad47d7ada89007d8169d90WorkBill is the modern, flexible accounting platform for small...
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
on Sunday November 09, 2025 @04:30PM (#45869377)
A modern QuickBooks, based on beancount, WorkBill (https://workbill.co). You can play with it at https://demo.workbill.co.
Unlike traditional accounting platforms we expose the ledger model directly which enables our customers to model complex transactions even when we do not have direct support for it.
Been working on this for a month, and it uses Elixir, Phoenix and InertiaJS with React.
Re:Making a font of my handwriting
on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:57PM (#45142930)
warmed my heart, wishing you a great life together
Re:Making a Watch from Scratch
on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @02:26AM (#42439153)
This blog started my love for mechanical watches. Love how intricate and cohesive the entire mechanism is.
Re:Show HN: Double-entry accounting based personal finance app
on Saturday November 30, 2024 @03:19AM (#42280329)
My bad. The design is based on https://fragment.dev/docs#design-your-ledger. They have detailed docs about designing proper ledgers.
Re:Show HN: Double-entry accounting based personal finance app
on Friday November 29, 2024 @11:23PM (#42279401)
We use a proper ledger to track the flow of money. It was sizable technical investment to get the schema right, but it has made the subsequent implementations of features easier.
Re:Show HN: Double-entry accounting based personal finance app
on Friday November 29, 2024 @11:21PM (#42279398)
You are right about missing the web part. It's substantial space that we miss out on mobile. But mobile lets you enter transactions on the go, and is always there when you need it. A web version is planned in the future.
I started Paper to bring the beancount + automated parsing with python stack to everyone. Double-entry is an objectively better way to manage your finances, when we build an automatic reconciliation engine that automatically categorizes the bank transactions we'll have the best personal finance tracker app.
Re:Show HN: Double-entry accounting based personal finance app
on Friday November 29, 2024 @11:17PM (#42279372)
Automated transaction reconciliation will be a major feature in the future versions of the app. I have yet to use an app that reliably does automatic transaction registration and the dream is to build one.
India does have a decent open-banking system, used by https://fold.money
Re:Show HN: Double-entry accounting based personal finance app
on Friday November 29, 2024 @11:13PM (#42279356)
Thanks. Updated the data-collection section.
Re:Show HN: Double-entry accounting based personal finance app
on Friday November 29, 2024 @11:12PM (#42279348)
It's a characteristic of double-entry accounting. Everything is an account and transactions move money between accounts. When you receive money from your salary in your bank account, the money is being debited from an Income account. We show the debit with the negative sign.
> Yes you can, it's called a split transaction. $1000 income: split into $700 to my savings and $300 to taxes.
Even though this would work, the money is still in your bank account, which makes your savings account balance to be reported wrong.
Re:Show HN: Double-entry accounting based personal finance app
on Friday November 29, 2024 @11:07PM (#42279320)
Thanks for the catch. Fixed and pushed.
Show HN: Double-entry accounting based personal finance app
Hello HN! I am Aswin Mohan, full-stack mobile + web developer and I built PaperMoney(https://getpaper.money). PaperMoney is a double-entry accounting based personal finance app. It can help you keep track of your expenses, assets, liabilities and your net-worth. It is based on the command-line tools beancount and ledger.I had been using beancount to track my expenses for over two years. The...
Re:Would you use a government-issued ID to prove your identity online?
on Monday April 01, 2024 @08:21AM (#39893352)
In India we use Aadhar, the associated phone number and a digi-locker app to verify our identity. Mostly used for governmental, financial and insurance verification. Works seamlessly most of the time.
Re:Mechanical Watch
on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:42AM (#38611424)
I bought a mechanical watch after reading this blog post and it's been my daily driver since. It always brings a smile to look at it and see what fine craftsmanship and mechanical intelligence can achieve.
Re:SheepIt Render Farm
on Sunday November 19, 2023 @02:21PM (#38336680)
Does a system exist where we can train open source LLM models in this way? Maybe distribute it across a cluster of computers with credit points that can be later used for inference.
Re:Review: Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard
on Monday September 04, 2023 @01:29AM (#37377403)
I use the Moonlander with a layout that doesn't deviate much from the standard Mac keyboard. Even though I sacrifice a little bit of single keypress magics that I can do on my Moonlander, it enables me to switch more easily to my laptop keyboard on the go.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @11:20PM (#36595170)
Mine is at https://aswinmohan.me
Re:Ask HN: Founders, how much automated tests do you write?
on Saturday February 18, 2023 @07:13AM (#34846313)
While working on my startup as a solo-founder I used to follow a TDD approach supported mostly by Integration tests. I mostly focused on the user happy paths with limited coverage outside the Integration tests.
The goal is to have the major functionality of the platform tested automatically so we can be confident that new features don’t introduce new bugs.
Re:Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation
on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:45AM (#32273228)
I have ported a backoffice app from Phoenix LiveView to a Retool(Frontend) + Vercel(Api) + Supabase(database) collection and it's holding out really great. The primitives of Retool (autoupdating queries, transformers, direct integration to the database, staging and production environments) makes feature development super fast. You guys are on to something great, keep going strong.
Re:The Internet from Rocks – A High Level Explanation of Computers and...
on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @01:38AM (#32066064)
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site
on Thursday April 07, 2022 @12:33AM (#30940631)
https://aswinmohan.me
My blog is a collection of txt files. Here's a post about why I wrote it in text files https://aswinmohan.me/only.txt, here is another post about Phoenix LiveView https://aswinmohan.me/superfast-liveview.txt
Re:Show HN: I made my website plain text only
on Saturday April 02, 2022 @01:45PM (#30890113)
Out of curiosity I converted my blog and blog posts to a collection of text files. I thought first about making a simple HTML file, but then thought if I have HTML there is nothing stopping me from adding CSS and JS to it. I wanted a bare minimum way for my writing to exist on the web and work well on the command line.
Since we can't add links to text files, they follow the markdown format of links [link](url) where you have to manually copy paste the URL in the URL bar. The text is hard wrapped at 80 chars, and no indentation is used since it messes up the look on mobile. I love it, what do you people think ? Yeah or neh ?
Show HN: I made my website plain text only
Ask HN: What can a developer do to help with Nuclear Fusion?
Humanity needs near-free limitless energy if we're to sustain and improve our living standards for the future. Nuclear Fusion is the most promising bet to get us to that future. But it's kind of the domain of physicists and hard core engineers. Is there any way a Fullstack Developer can help ? Maybe with building internal tools ?Also where do we find jobs for programmers in Nuclear Fusion...