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kevinschaichon Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

Hey! Not currently – but please feel free to discuss and contribute here!

https://github.com/kevinschaich/mintable/issues/2

kevinschaichon Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

Hey! Out of the box there's nothing groundbreaking. I find what works for me is to include a column to mark individual expenses as "business related", and then calculate a total at the end of the month that I make sure to get reimbursed for through expense reports.

At the core though, this is just a spreadsheet, so you can add custom formulas and analytics to your heart's content!

kevinschaichon Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

Thanks for the feedback! I updated the README with a detailed comparison which also hopefully explains why they became incompatible.

kevinschaichon Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

Hey! Thanks for the great question. I've expanded on the Credits section and added a detailed comparison on the README:

https://github.com/kevinschaich/mintable#credits--alternativ...

As mentioned by another commenter I apologize for the less-than-helpful commit messages as I approached the initial release, I realize these make the differences hard to discern! :)

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

kevinschaichon Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

Hey! Mintable relies on Plaid for fetching transactional data but you’re free to plug in whatever Google Sheets alternative you prefer!

kevinschaichon Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

Hey – apologize and thanks for the feedback! I saw this on another repo and thought it was a cool idea just for the initial release. All the “fire” commits were just README edits and polish, will be sure to post more helpful comments moving forward! :)