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I don't fully understand how/why you guys selfhost some apps (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by dafuccdoyoumean@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I don't have a home server yet but I'm exploring and sometimes I get confused about some posts here.

For example I saw a post asking for recommendation for a "self hosted budget management app". Can't you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What's the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?

I hope I don't sound stupid please enlighten me.

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[–] bflobrad@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mint is probably the largest budget app out there and they just announced that they will be going away at the end of this year. Many of us have years of data in Mint that we are about to lose.

Experience has taught me to avoid depending on third party services for something I could self-host.

[–] KingQuin@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What selfhosted app do you recommend for budget?

[–] MoreRopePlease@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I settled on Money Manager Ex as a replacement for YNAB. The old YNAB program was the only thing keeping me on windows 7, lol. When I finally found something I liked, I switched to Linux.

[–] dontevendrivethatfar@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If you want 0-based budgeting, try Actual Budget: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

It's pretty similar to YNAB, and you can even import from YNAB.

[–] bflobrad@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't have a replacement yet, but I plan to look at Firefly III.

[–] oxymo@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Firefly is great, and I’m still on an older version that just works. Takes some effort to get imports auto classified, but once you do it’s stupid fast to categorize your spending and see trends.

[–] icheerforvillains@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

My wife loooooves when I spend my evening going through my latest batch of unclassified firefly transactions. But the perfect pie chart is worth it.

[–] icheerforvillains@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I use firefly for spending categorization. I haven't gotten into any of the budgeting stuff.

IMO the biggest drop off from mint is the lack of automated synchronizing of account transactions. I'm currently just dumping transaction csv's monthly and importing then, which is easy enough.