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Free Accounting Software

8Distinct people
15Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Free Accounting Software

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year15 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-03-22 12:40:06 UTC to 2024-04-23 17:10:30 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Sequence has interesting applications for longer-term work I'm on, and/but I'm Baader-Meinhoffing [0] re more-immediate small-biz accounting ledger needs: I spent a good chunk of yesterday in gnu-cash and Frappe books [1] working to import/tag/script Chart of Accounts and transaction info from two banks while aiming to avoid (new-to-me) UI, code base, or Generally Accepted Accounting Principles rabbit holes. Sequence is clearly an API and I ought stick with consumer packages @ immediate needs. I'll spin up the container to check it out in general; Please let me know if I'm mistaken / you recommend specifics it'd be helpful for me to check out and feed back on - [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Fre... [1] - https://github.com/frappe/books
In Show HN: An open-source financial ledger API written in Clojure
Hey, this is cool, I'm looking to switch from a proprietary accounting app to something open-source. It being open-source is important mainly because accounting apps UX usually sucks for some specific types of data entry and I want to be able to fix that for my use cases to get the annoying job done faster and get back to programming. I immediately hit some dealbreakers with Frappe though (and filed them as issues, hopefully they are useful), most importantly that I cannot figure out how to delete General Ledger entries (if it is possible at all), see https://github.com/frappe/books/issues/129. In terms of product feedback, I also recommend that you add a "spreadsheet mode" in which you can quickly and immediately edit most of the ledger data in one view, (without having to open popups and so on), with effective search-and-replace. That i
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s a key accounting tool feature to get things done fast. For example, I currently use Banana (https://www.banana.ch/en/features) which is spreadsheet-based and pretty effective for this task (but could still be a lot better).
In Show HN: FrappeBooks – Free and Open Source, Modern Desktop Accounting for SMB

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