My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)

My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years 15 minute read I am a big believer in building products for your needs, eating your own dog food, and finding customers with the same needs. Therefore, I started building BeanHub. Three years later, my Beancount books are 95% automatic, and I am a very happy user of my product. It’s hard to describe; as a computer nerd obsessed with automation, seeing my accounting book updating itself without me touching it in an open format brings me pure joy 😍 Screenshot of Git history and difference showing Beancount and bank transaction CSV files changes Do you see this git commit of the Costco transaction turning from pending to confirmed? Yep! It’s all automatic, yet it’s just a Beancount file that can be read by any open-source Beancount tool! The better part is that other people are paying me, which is growing. Today, I saw the unfortunate news about the shutting down of the beloved accounting software Bench on X. Shutdown notice of Benc ... Read full article.