Wealthfolio

Finance and crypto

investment portfolio tracker

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924points
263comments
#10of 3,515 in 2024
Top 1%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

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 HN
    • Love the design! If this had automatic importing I would probably drop Copilot for this.
      HackBlade on HN
    • UI 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 HN
    • This 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 HN
    • This 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 HN
    • This 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 HN
    • On 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 HN
    • Looking 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 HN
    • Looks 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 HN
    • It 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 HN
    • I'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 HN
    • So 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 HN
    • Great 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 HN
    • is 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 HN
    • Looks 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

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 HN
    • How 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 HN
    • This 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 HN
    • I 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

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