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I don't fully understand how/why you guys selfhost some apps (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't have a home server yet but I'm exploring and sometimes I get confused about some posts here.

For example I saw a post asking for recommendation for a "self hosted budget management app". Can't you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What's the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?

I hope I don't sound stupid please enlighten me.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Mint is probably the largest budget app out there and they just announced that they will be going away at the end of this year. Many of us have years of data in Mint that we are about to lose.

Experience has taught me to avoid depending on third party services for something I could self-host.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (6 children)

What selfhosted app do you recommend for budget?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I settled on Money Manager Ex as a replacement for YNAB. The old YNAB program was the only thing keeping me on windows 7, lol. When I finally found something I liked, I switched to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If you want 0-based budgeting, try Actual Budget: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

It's pretty similar to YNAB, and you can even import from YNAB.

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