budget
Finance and crypto
personal budgeting
SHOW HN2018
46points
6comments
#821of 2,155 in 2018
Top 39%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Neat idea for predicting categories
From 1 comment
That's neat. I am thinking about building something similar just with scanned invoices. I hope that using KNN on some image features can auto-classify the invoice into existing…
heinrichhartman on HN
Objections
Correlating prices with categories suffers from omitted variable bias
From 1 comment
It's an interesting assumption to correlate prices with categories, I think this'll suffer greatly from omitted variable biases. If I end up having to check each time whether or…
grenoire on HN
Checking whether entered amounts change category may be more work than manual entry
From 1 comment
It's an interesting assumption to correlate prices with categories, I think this'll suffer greatly from omitted variable biases. If I end up having to check each time whether or…
grenoire on HN
Requests
Sort categories by predicted likelihood
From 1 comment
Well, it could at least sort for categories with the highest possibility.
k__ on HN
Alternatives named
AutoEntry and Trifact365 for OCR-based categorisation for small businesses
From 1 comment
Not very common for personal finances but there are already services (AutoEntry, Trifact365 etc.) that handle this kind of categorisation for small businesses with OCR, no need…
grenoire on HN