Last year, after looking at solutions in the space and deciding none jived with me, I built a #PersonalFinance management app in #PHP.

@BeeTurland and I have been using it for nearly a year now. It's been a great help, but could still be a lot better. And, while it works, the source code is also a bit of a mess.

Now that the overall concept has born out as useful, I want to rewrite it, and ideally release it as #OSS. And I think I'd rather not do it alone.

Anyone interested in collaborating?

@elazar @BeeTurland I'm curious how it gets bank data (if it does)?

That's one big stumbling block here in Canada for software like this. Banks simply don't have APIs, it seems. Screen scraping is usually the only way to get data, and naturally introduces major infosec issues.

@kboyd If Mint can pull banking and credit card data from my accounts (shudders at the thought), then there must be something that can used.
@tfevens back when I tried it (must've been almost 10 years ago), it would constantly trip account protections & die. It was screen scraping.
@kboyd I had no troubles the last few times I tried it, a year or more ago. 🤷‍♂️