Wealthfolio
Finance and crypto
investment portfolio tracker
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How HN took it
15 positive, 39 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 29 critical, out of 87 comments about the project. Thread score -0.15.
Execution: 0 for, 12 againstIdea: 4 for, 7 againstDesign: 4 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 2 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, beautiful design
From 4 comments
Looks nice. One reason why I use a spreadsheet for stuff like this is I can share it with my wife through Google Sheets, so we can periodically update with our separate accounts.
steviedotboston on HNLove the design! If this had automatic importing I would probably drop Copilot for this.
HackBlade on HNUI looks way more polished than the competition — without having fully set it up, the app sounds very promising as an alternative to SaaS tools. Any plans to monetise?
palk on HNThis looks beautiful. I am building in the same way, a private app, runs on desktop, same tech stack. I have a very generous free tier and I want to add two paid tiers. I have to…
brainless on HN
Local data storage with no cloud or subscriptions
From 2 comments
"Local Data Storage. No Subscriptions, No Cloud" This is what we need more often from our software, especially from software that works with sensitive data. I do typically want…
TexanFeller on HNThis looks really nice, and I love that it's open source and all the data is saved locally. I will give it a try this weekend!
LifeUtilityApps on HN
Open source and self-hostable
From 2 comments
It's a beautiful design, and I like the idea of OSS and self-hosted instead of a SaaS, but since it doesn't support direct connections to banks/brokerages (i.e., through Plaid),…
insane_dreamer on HNThis looks really nice, and I love that it's open source and all the data is saved locally. I will give it a try this weekend!
LifeUtilityApps on HN
Objections
No automatic bank or brokerage connection; CSV import is manual and tedious
From 4 comments
It's a beautiful design, and I like the idea of OSS and self-hosted instead of a SaaS, but since it doesn't support direct connections to banks/brokerages (i.e., through Plaid),…
insane_dreamer on HNOn one hand, this looks like awesome work. On the other hand, personally for me I am not sure how it could ever work for me. Right now, I have 20+ money/investment accounts from…
smsm42 on HNLooking good, I've worked in a startup doing this using an app (with more things). Adding accounts manually is painful. We used to do it with Open Banking, but since this is…
Oras on HNLooks very cool. I started working on my own version of this to self host in my LAN. First issue I ran into was the lack of understanding certain CSV formats. For example,…
yesimahuman on HN
CSV import fails or is limited for some brokers such as Schwab and Fidelity
From 2 comments
I tried importing activity from a Charles Schwab account, and it did not work, since they capitalize their field titles. Then after fixing that I got "CSV deserialize error:…
Ninjinka on HNIt looks nice, but unfortunately Fidelity's CSV exports don't seem to be particularly cooperative AFAICT, which limits how much I'd be able to use this. Haven't tried my other…
yellowapple on HN
Bugs reported when submitting trades and in setup
From 2 comments
tried it quickly on a personal machine running windows; all attempts at submitting `BUY`s for popular tickers (regardless of price, tax, quantity, ticker, date) seem to result in…
kidintech on HNI've put 15 minutes of my work into configuring the app. Even on that surface level I can conclude that the application is full of bugs that impact accounts and savings. It looks…
user_agent on HN
Unsupported tickers such as some mutual funds and 401k funds
From 2 comments
The tickers from my 401k at Vangaurd aren't supported. VFIAX, VTIAX. Oh well.
dmackerman on HNSo what happens when I buy more of a stock? I need to go update my wealthfolio right? How does it do with pension accounts, mutual funds and various other things that may be…
mrwww on HN
Requests
Automatic import or Plaid-style bank connections
From 3 comments
That's what I was wondering. It's a ton of work, but would love the auto importing / screen scraping features that Mint.com had. For a local desktop tool it even has the…
progforlyfe on HNGreat work on the app. As another comment stated, having to import CSVs and spending most of your time editing transactions is a huge barrier to adoption. I know most commercial…
theogravity on HNis Plaid inherently bad? Is having an automated way of pulling in real time data worth the security risk of authing into all your bank accounts? Genuinely asking as this seems…
admn2 on HN
Published list of supported brokers and banks
From 2 comments
First question from reading through the landing page is about this part: > Import your statements from your broker or bank. Exactly what brokers/banks that are supported should…
diggan on HNLooks interesting. I have tried it out. Cannot see how to do this step: > Import your statements from your broker or bank.
herodotus on HN
Hosted or homelab-deployable version with sync
From 2 comments
Note that this is a desktop app developed via Tauri. It would be great to turn this into a hosted service that I can deploy onto a homelab and access everywhere?
figmert on HN"Local Data Storage. No Subscriptions, No Cloud" This is what we need more often from our software, especially from software that works with sensitive data. I do typically want…
TexanFeller on HN
Stock split support
From 1 comment
I wish this and Ghostfolio supported stock splits.
jeffchien on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Portfolio Performance?
From 1 comment
Looks cool! How does it compare with Portfolio Performance[0], which is arguably the most popular open-source tool for portfolio tracking? [0]:…
cube2222 on HN
How are current market prices fetched and what data is sent externally?
From 2 comments
This looks great. Is there more information on the external connections the app makes? So far I see: wealthfolio.app yahoo.com I'm assuming latter is to fetch ticker symbols, but…
skim on HNHow do things remain private if the prices of assets, like stocks, have to be updated?
thinkloop on HN
Does it support options, bonds, or international markets?
From 2 comments
Does it support options, or only stocks? How do you get current market prices for investments?
tsycho on HNThis looks nice. Does this work for the international market, like Brazil for example? Does it track fixed-income types of investments like government bonds, etc?
lucasfdacunha on HN
Alternatives named
Portfolio Performance
From 2 comments
Looks cool! How does it compare with Portfolio Performance[0], which is arguably the most popular open-source tool for portfolio tracking? [0]:…
cube2222 on HNI have been very happy with https://www.portfolio-performance.info/en/ which is also Open Source, local/desktop and quite advanced.
oezi on HN
Ghostfolio
From 1 comment
While you’re at it, have a look at Ghostfolio too: https://ghostfol.io/en/start Open Source and self-hostable.
alex_suzuki on HN
Projection Lab
From 1 comment
Really happy with Projection Lab in this space. Although it's not open source, it is self-hostable if you pay for their lifetime access. The developer continues to update it, and…
snide on HN
Paisa
From 1 comment
I am currently working on configuring a similar private, open source portfolio tracker built on top of ledger (a double-entry accounting system). I was drawn to it because of its…
bt1a on HN