aswinmohanme
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Find me at aswinmohan.me, and connect at [email protected]
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Comment · 5 months ago
This is a blog post about how relying on coding agents are making software engineers who create every intricate function of a codebase, into farmers who grow codebases, doctors who make changes on these systems which they have not created and gardeners who try to the same process of farming to make the change.
Comment · 9 months ago
I am Aswin (https://aswinmohan.me) and I am building Cycle. It's an integrated financial platform that combines business banking, an inbuilt accounting ledger and payroll. By combining them together we get additional context which we can use to automate much of the grunt-work associated with managing finance.
You can try out the accounting system here with no sign-up at https://demo.joincycle.co. You can join the waitlist to use it when we launch with business banking.
I have built the platform in Elixir, Phoenix, Inertia JS and React. I had launched it initially as workbill.co, as a standalone accounting platform, but later pivoted to this.
Comment · 11 months ago
A modern QuickBooks, based on beancount, WorkBill (https://workbill.co). You can play with it at https://demo.workbill.co.
Unlike traditional accounting platforms we expose the ledger model directly which enables our customers to model complex transactions even when we do not have direct support for it.
Been working on this for a month, and it uses Elixir, Phoenix and InertiaJS with React.
Comment · 1 year ago
warmed my heart, wishing you a great life together
Comment · 1 year ago
This blog started my love for mechanical watches. Love how intricate and cohesive the entire mechanism is.
Comment · 1 year ago
My bad. The design is based on https://fragment.dev/docs#design-your-ledger. They have detailed docs about designing proper ledgers.
Comment · 1 year ago
We use a proper ledger to track the flow of money. It was sizable technical investment to get the schema right, but it has made the subsequent implementations of features easier.
Comment · 1 year ago
You are right about missing the web part. It's substantial space that we miss out on mobile. But mobile lets you enter transactions on the go, and is always there when you need it. A web version is planned in the future.
I started Paper to bring the beancount + automated parsing with python stack to everyone. Double-entry is an objectively better way to manage your finances, when we build an automatic reconciliation engine that automatically categorizes the bank transactions we'll have the best personal finance tracker app.
Comment · 1 year ago
Automated transaction reconciliation will be a major feature in the future versions of the app. I have yet to use an app that reliably does automatic transaction registration and the dream is to build one.
India does have a decent open-banking system, used by https://fold.money
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks. Updated the data-collection section.