Ledger-analytics
Finance and crypto
personal finance analytics
SHOW HN2018
102points
19comments
#426of 2,155 in 2018
Top 20%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
4 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks fantastic and well done
From 2 comments
Hi. This looks fantastic. Well done. Has anyone tried this with hledger (http://hledger.org/) ? The file formats are quite similar, so hoping it wouldn’t be too hard to get it to…
stevenringo on HNLooks great. Can't wait to try it
Khaine on HN
Objections
README lacks a screenshot and the gifs load slowly
From 2 comments
Github README could use a screenshot, especially for a very visual app as analytics. Edit: nm
dmix on HNIt's loading two gifs for me.
erikb on HN
Main app page did not work for one commenter
From 1 comment
It looks not too hard - four invocations of ledger in analyze.js which would need to be adapted for hledger. (I'd give it a try, but I failed to get the app's main page working.)
smichael on HN
Requests
Support for hledger
From 2 comments
Hi. This looks fantastic. Well done. Has anyone tried this with hledger (http://hledger.org/) ? The file formats are quite similar, so hoping it wouldn’t be too hard to get it to…
stevenringo on HNDraft: https://gist.github.com/simonmichael/5b0d3aafb4b71ccdadaa4fd02beac475
smichael on HN
Questions
Can it run on a private cloud or be less centralized?
From 1 comment
Is ledger something anyone has installed on a private cloud? I'm interested in using this with the cli but would love to know if there is a way to make it a little less…
xrd on HN
Alternatives named
Fava (Beancount web frontend)
From 1 comment
Another option to consider is Fava. It's a web frontend for Beancount which is another plain-text accounting tool similar to ledger. There's no authentication or security on the…
johntash on HN
node-ledger-web
From 1 comment
I am using this: https://github.com/slashdotdash/node-ledger-web
notdang on HN