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zallarak··on Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track finances?
Try: https://www.gotruffle.com

Edit: although the app is marketed as finding deductions, we show spending breakdown by category and are in the process of adding automatic revenue tracking.

zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
haha that's funny! Now that you say it, I can't unsee.
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
Try it and let us know!
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
It looks like bank statements are sufficient but I’d check with your accountant: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
Just send us a message on chat.
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
This is great feedback. We'll add bulk edits soon!
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
We will look into that. If it’s not some arcane format we will get it done ASAP.
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
If they built it - great! We are all for consumers being better off.
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
Sorry. The answer is yes, we will delete everything.

I skimmed the question and answered in haste. My apologies.

zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
If you’re not satisfied we will refund you.
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
Yes. We will delete everything.
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
What do you want to hear more about? Glad to answer any questions.
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
No, it does't yet... Sorry.
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
And the feedback as well!
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
Thanks for the kind words, friend.
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
Actually our first user used it for exactly that. The free version should suffice to help you filter for this type of stuff.
zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
It is maximally inclusive. It is up to you to remove what is not.

I know that doesn't cover all use-cases, but it is what we started out with.

zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
Thanks for your kind words. I love your writings.

Connect your personal spending accounts, and we'll find all potential business deductions and categorize them for you.

If something isn't actually a deduction / business-related, you may remove it. If we got a categorization wrong, you can fix it.

zallarak··on Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
I helped make Truffle. Here to answer any questions and thanks for stopping by!
zallarak··on Launch HN: Keeper Tax (YC W19) – Find tax writeoffs in bank statements
https://www.gotruffle.com supports PayPal.

For the record I think Taxkeeper is super cool. Truffle is totally different; less of a recurring tool and more of a one-time tool.

Disclaimer: I work on Truffle.

Congrats Keepertax on launching!

zallarak··on Launch HN: Keeper Tax (YC W19) – Find tax writeoffs in bank statements
https://www.gotruffle.com has a one-time fee :-)
zallarak··on Deck-build – A powerful and tiny bash framework to build custom Docker images
I will be sad if I ever need to spend significant amounts of time configuring docker, or any deployment system.
zallarak··on Why do all websites look the same?
"Type Primer" was a revealing and relevant read for this topic. Design is about functionality, and good typography and alignment can often-times get you there. Colors, shapes, etc. are interesting for art; but when someone needs to use what you've built, ensuring functionality is clear is crucial.
zallarak··on We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them
Unpopular opinion: who cares? I think the business is gross, and I have not had a Facebook account for 10 years. If you disapprove of it, just don't use it. Complaining about Facebook's actions is like complaining about sugar being unhealthy. Don't force sugar to change its molecular composition, just stop eating it.
zallarak··on NPM and the future of JavaScript
I have terrible memories of npm install on the caltrain, with tethered wifi.
zallarak··on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless
> Somehow the ATM network was confident that it had your BTC

It is fairly simple to verify this. By this time (20 minutes), it would have had 1-2 confirmations, which is sufficient for small amounts.

zallarak··on Very Good Security
Huge fan on EnvKey. A perfect example of security + usability done right -- they make more convenient to do the right thing in terms of managing sensitive environment variables.

Different niche than VGS, which again, is taking a novel approach to securing sensitive information. You can tell that their founders have had real-world experience from their novel solution; using a proxy to mask and reveal sensitive information.

zallarak··on A Haskell Compiler – Slides on GHC Implementation (2013)
How do you go to the next slide on mobile?
zallarak··on Ask HN: How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?
error/exception monitoring
zallarak··on Cryptographic Right Answers
Ah, thank you. I fully understand now the stupidity of my response. The title itself says "cryptographic" in it, and my answers had nothing to do with that. My mistake.
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