godbledger

Shameless self plug: ive been building a similar open source command line accounting system https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger Its heavily inspired by both ledger and beancount but my biggest issue with them is that text files arnt great for double entry bookkeeping. Having a relational database is the better option which is what GoDBLedger has. After a certain point a business cant keep track of its transactions in text files because there are simply too many of them, so these systems really only scale to personal finance levels (few hundred transactions maybe thousand transactions). In addition building plugins that can import your whole text file into a sql system so you can query them is redundant. Just have it in a relational database to start with.

Hello Hackernews! I've been building an open source Accounting System and have finally the web interface to a point were I can do a Demo vid! GoDBLedger is meant to be an accounting system for programmers who want to write scripts for their financial transactions, and then give you access to the database so you can analyse the transactions using whatever analytics software you are comfortable with. Check it out on github: https://godbledger.com/ https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger I also did some cool things with Metabase in an older video, we built a financial dashboard which showed your income month by month live and updated whenever GoDBLedger received a manual journal. That demo video can be found here: https://youtu.be/PeQR7GseFQI Happy to discuss any an all things about accounting, and would love any feedback that Hackernews has

I’ve been building an open source accounting system in go. https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger Id love for any seasoned golang experts to do a review of my code and highlight any areas that could be improved.

This has also been my opinion for the accounting industry. Just like c compilers before gcc were proprietary and poor performing the accounting software that exists has many limitations. That means there is a huge opportunity for an open source system to blow them out of the water. Ive been building one myself but i know there are many more coming for this industry :) https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger

Shameless plug of my open source finance system. https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger I love these command line self hosted accounting software packages. But double entry bookkeeping was invented using ledgerbooks with ruled tables. I feel the plain text dataformats are a regression compared to a sql database. A general ledger just works so well with columns that you can sum. It also saves you from needing a custom tool like bean-query to replicate sqlite-ish queries because it could have been in a database from the start

This reminds me of Go DB Ledger https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger

GoDBLedger https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger Its the core of my open source accounting system. Its slightly further along than half baked because it is pretty much feature complete for what i want core to do, but that just means you can do double entry bookkeeping on the command line. Currently building a web interface to interact with it which hopefully will attract non technical users

I’m building an open source accounting system with rpc endpoints being the primary method for inputting data and a SQL database that can be queried easily. GoDBLedger: https://godbledger.com/ https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger For the most part that backend of the system is working how I want. I now need to build more front end ways to communicate to it. One of the front end methods I’m working on is programmable journal entries. So you write your journal entries in a JavaScript file which gets executed in the context of the accounting system so you will have full access to the account balances. However this is still early stages: Yurnell: https://github.com/darcys22/yurnell

I’m building an open source accounting system with rpc endpoints being the primary method for inputting data and a SQL database that can be queried easily. GoDBLedger: https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger For the most part that backend of the system is working how I want. I now need to build more front end ways to communicate to it. One of the front end methods I’m working on is programmable journal entries. So you write your journal entries in a JavaScript file which gets executed in the context of the accounting system so you will have full access to the account balances. However this is still early stages: Yurnell: https://github.com/darcys22/yurnell