I had (have?) a side project to build a self-hostable Mint/PersonalCapital/whatever on top of ofxtools. The basic idea would be full control of your credentials, so you don't have to trust a third-party like Plaid or Yodlee. Self-hosted doesn't necessarily mean not supporting SaaS-ish behavior though, it's fairly easy to do "dump all my transactions to BigQuery in my own project".
I feel like self-hostable asset and expense tracking is something a few people would care about. I believe tech forward folks are faced with a choice between:
- Command-line tools like gnucash or ofxtools that are pretty bare bones
- Spreadsheets that are manually updated
- Give in, and hope that these companies don't have data breaches
Those options kinda suck :). Does anyone want this? I made it part of the way, until I got infuriated by the sad state of "open banking" in Europe (a friend was interested, but is in Europe, where OFX isn't popular).
I feel like self-hostable asset and expense tracking is something a few people would care about. I believe tech forward folks are faced with a choice between:
- Command-line tools like gnucash or ofxtools that are pretty bare bones
- Spreadsheets that are manually updated
- Give in, and hope that these companies don't have data breaches
Those options kinda suck :). Does anyone want this? I made it part of the way, until I got infuriated by the sad state of "open banking" in Europe (a friend was interested, but is in Europe, where OFX isn't popular).