Dogfooded my expense tracker & budgeting for years - Soft launched ZenExpenses

Hello everyone,

I've been a developer for 16+ years. I ran a profitable project for years (2009-2015) until Twitter's (now X) API changes killed it overnight. Since then I've been quietly building something new, dogfooding it on my own finances for years, hosted on a server in my basement closet. I finally found the time to polish it and open it up.

I named it ZenExpenses (https://zenexpenses.com), an expense tracker and budgeting app built around one idea: you upload bank statements (CSV, PDF, Excel, QuickBooks) instead of connecting your bank account. Skipping the third party bank connection is deliberate. I'm holding out for the day open banking is properly adopted. And no, it is not hosted on my basement server anymore if you were wondering.

What it does:

- Automatic categorization, Or write your own rules if you didn't like the automatic categorization.

- Recurring expense and subscription detection.

- Analyze your expenses and detect anomalies.

- Expense splitting with partners or roommates (our family uses this a lot as we share our expenses based on our annual income ratios).

- Multi-currency support.

I built it so you don't need to be an accounting guru to use it because I am not an accounting guru myself. But years of dogfooding means it's shaped entirely by my habits and my own two banks' export formats. That's exactly why I need you. I can't test this with my friends as they are a bit weary for sharing their personal expenses with me.

Before the public launch, I'm looking for a handful of beta testers to answer two questions:

- Does the upload-and-categorize workflow click for you, or does it feel like a chore?

- Does your bank's statement parse cleanly? This is my biggest blind spot, since I can only test against my own two banks.

Free to try at https://zenexpenses.com.

I'll be in the comments the whole time, so throw the kitchen sink at me.