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Wow. How did you do this? This is a saturated field, especially since the downfall of Mint. (Context: I made one of these too, but a minimal/fast HTML/CSS/JS web app. I use it myself, but have 0 users)


> I made one of these too, but a minimal/fast HTML/CSS/JS web app

Same story here. But not sure if yours had a backend. Mine did not have one and stored everything on the browser datastore, but could export it to some free json hosting service after encrypting and compression so that it can be synced to other devices and used from them as well.

Was not aware of anything that did the same, thought it would be useful (mostly because it would be totally free to use, could be accessed from multiple devices and respected user privacy) and shared here couple of days back.

Zero interest! Ha ha. At least I didn't spend a lot of resources on it and made it for my own use. It have been working well for me for many years.


One big benefit of a google sheet over a web app is that you're not relying on the creator to keep maintaining it. You can copy the sheet and then you have it forever. (Unless Google shuts down sheets, but even for Google that's unlikely.)


I have no clue. I built it for myself in 2020, then made it better each year. Once posted on Reddit... the rest is history.


I've had a similar one for like two decades, and it originated from another thing that I found around and tweaked to my liking. This spreadsheet sits nicely between the minimal effort and the uber solution of typing everything in some plain text accounting solution.


Cool!




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