10 comments

  • jchristopherinc 12 hours ago
    Just a few days ago, saw Finbodhi from paisa project through Anandakumaran's website. Very interesting and loved Opensource projects with focus on end-to-end encryption coming out of India. My best wishes to you!
    • pdyc 11 hours ago
      where does it say it is open source?
  • vickyonit 1 hour ago
    Congratulations on the launch!
  • jFriedensreich 10 hours ago
    By what definition is this local first? You use firebase and the client is not open source or at least downloadable. The definition is that i can keep using the app if your company goes out of business, which is not the case.
    • ciju 10 hours ago
      It's local-first in the sense that all your financial data is local (synched across your devices), and backed up to your dropbox. Firebase is for auth (e.g. for us to know who you are, manage subscription etc). None of your financial data is kept there. We don't have a decent way to set up and track subscription without that central piece (firebase).

      In other words, when the company goes down, there are two concerns:

      1st whether you will have access to your data. Yes, and no one else has access to it.

      2nd whether you will be able to use the app. We plan to open-source the app when/before that happens. This part, you have to trust us. We don't see an easy way out of this, yet.

      • jFriedensreich 7 hours ago
        i dont see any place for an app like this that is not open source. you can make the sync service payed that gets your bank statements.
      • Hot_chip 8 hours ago
        You could use a code escrow service.
  • fortzi 10 hours ago
    The page explaining double entry accounting is worth an HN post on its own
  • elijahwright 11 hours ago
    Is there a github repo for this? Free to use isn't the same as source-freely-available...
    • ciju 11 hours ago
      Sorry, we are not open-source. Also, it's free to use till beta :) although there would be a free plan even after that. We don't plan to open source it till we have enough momentum to support ourselves with the project. This is for profit project. Your data is yours but the software is ours, till the revenue supports us. After which we do plan to open-source it.
  • HexDecOctBin 10 hours ago
    1. Is there any plans for native mobile apps?

    2. Which data sources (banks, UPI wallets, etc.) are supported as import source?

    • ciju 10 hours ago
      1. No current plans for native mobile app. We plan to make the web app somewhat usable on mobile, soon. Eventually, yes we would like to have a native app also.

      2. We have few banks supported (HDFC, ICICI). We have custom importer also, where you can define how to map a file to the fields we use. Note that import is manual. E.g. we don't scrape your bank etc. You export statement (like hdfc pdf statement, or zerodha transactions csv) and import it into the software.

  • pdyc 11 hours ago
    its not working on firefox. are you using official sqlite, sql.js or wa-sqlite wasm? as there are three different variants with differing support for storage. Also if opfs is not avilable do u have a fallback?
    • ciju 11 hours ago
      Are you trying it in private mode? We found an issue there. Normal mode should work. We will fix the issue with private mode in a future release.
      • pdyc 11 hours ago
        yes i was trying in private mode.
    • ciju 11 hours ago
      To answer rest of your question, we are using official sqlite (via evolu). We don't have a fallback for opfs. But opfs seems to supported in most browser. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System... Although, seems like the private mode in Firefox is related to opfs, so we might not be able to solve it. But again, most users won't use the app in private mode.
  • bhattisatish 9 hours ago
    Congrats dude on the release!
  • donq1xote1 10 hours ago
    i love Local First products! let me check out.