Transity
Finance and crypto
plain text accounting
SHOW HN2018
190points
138comments
#195of 2,155 in 2018
Top 10%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
9 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 23 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Idea: 7 for, 15 againstDesign: 1 for, 7 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Transaction-based model is more intuitive for personal finance
From 2 comments
I can only speak for me, but modeling financial flows in terms of transactions and not accounts is much more intuitive than the classical alternative. I'm a long time Buxfer…
athrun on HNTHANK YOU! I had the ideas used in this project in my head, but I've been putting off the work forever now. I LOVE YOU FOREVER for using transactions as the central operation…
Uplink on HN
Tagging support is useful
From 1 comment
THANK YOU! I had the ideas used in this project in my head, but I've been putting off the work forever now. I LOVE YOU FOREVER for using transactions as the central operation…
Uplink on HN
Objections
Dismisses double-entry accounting, which is standard for proper bookkeeping
From 3 comments
There are several things wrong here: 1. The author doesn't understand bookkeeping. 2. The author doesn't somehow believes that emulated teletypes are a good substrate for…
madhadron on HNI think throwing out the terms credit/debit is a mistake. Everyone operates on GAAP and we shouldn't deviate.
marcrosoft on HN> If this looks (and sounds) confusing or too complicated, you're not alone! It made sense in former times as this layout makes it easier to add up the amounts by hand, but not…
JustSomeNobody on HN
Author misunderstands bookkeeping
From 2 comments
There are several things wrong here: 1. The author doesn't understand bookkeeping. 2. The author doesn't somehow believes that emulated teletypes are a good substrate for…
madhadron on HNBasically the problem here is that the author didn't care even a little to understand why accounting is done with a double entry system. Basically what he was trying to do here…
joyinsky on HN
Web page text has poor contrast
From 1 comment
everyone is complaining about the accounting here, but I just want to say that 100 FONT WEIGHT AT #666 ON WHITE IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE CONTRAST RATIO FOR BODY TEXT, especially if…
Hello71 on HN
Requests
Support for multiple currencies
From 1 comment
I tried to use Ledger, but it fails to handle multi currency ac ounting properly. Is the Transity well suited for that?
avodonosov on HN
Support for splitting transactions across multiple accounts
From 1 comment
So I like the idea of using YAML versus ledger's format (very slightly, I'm used to ledger's format so it's not a pain point, but YAML offers some ways to make things a bit…
Jtsummers on HN
Questions
What is the use case compared with more powerful tools
From 1 comment
No judgement, but can someone explain to me the use case for this sort of thing? I'd imagine for anything other than the simplest stuff, you're going to start using something a…
sushisource on HN
Can money come from or go to multiple places
From 1 comment
So I like the idea of using YAML versus ledger's format (very slightly, I'm used to ledger's format so it's not a pain point, but YAML offers some ways to make things a bit…
Jtsummers on HN
Alternatives named
Ledger
From 2 comments
Hm, the article asserts that Ledger doesn't have tags: > Sub accounts vs. Tags > But what if the expense is part of another category as well, like expenses for your vacation?…
toomim on HNSo I like the idea of using YAML versus ledger's format (very slightly, I'm used to ledger's format so it's not a pain point, but YAML offers some ways to make things a bit…
Jtsummers on HN
hledger
From 2 comments
So I like the idea of using YAML versus ledger's format (very slightly, I'm used to ledger's format so it's not a pain point, but YAML offers some ways to make things a bit…
Jtsummers on HNAlso worth check out http://plaintextaccounting.org/ Personally I don't like the yaml-like syntax. I use beancount myself, and with fava (https://github.com/beancount/fava) as…
yegle on HN
GnuCash
From 2 comments
There are several things wrong here: 1. The author doesn't understand bookkeeping. 2. The author doesn't somehow believes that emulated teletypes are a good substrate for…
madhadron on HNAfter trying to use GNU cash for some time, I got the feeling that a personal accounting app needs to be a web based service, to enable it to be used while on the…
billfruit on HN
Beancount with Fava
From 1 comment
Also worth check out http://plaintextaccounting.org/ Personally I don't like the yaml-like syntax. I use beancount myself, and with fava (https://github.com/beancount/fava) as…
yegle on HN
Buxfer
From 1 comment
I can only speak for me, but modeling financial flows in terms of transactions and not accounts is much more intuitive than the classical alternative. I'm a long time Buxfer…
athrun on HN