Launching today
KernelCash Budgeting
Bringing privacy and simplicity back to online budgeting
2 followers
Bringing privacy and simplicity back to online budgeting
2 followers
KernelCash is a new take on privacy first budgeting that requires minimal setup to get started. With KernelCash, you can create a budget, upload your transactions, and start tracking your spending in minutes. Want your spouse, family members, or others to budget with you? Invite as many collaborators to your space as you would like! We take pride in our strict stance against connecting to our user's bank accounts. With KernelCash, you are always in the drivers seat when it comes to your data!
Hi Everyone! I am proud to be launching KernelCash, my take on privacy-first, simple budgeting. This application started out from my frustrations with large, bloated budgeting and personal finance apps requesting access to more data than I was comfortable with sharing.
Like many others, I started budgeting on paper, then a spreadsheet, and eventually made my way to some of the larger budgeting and personal finance apps on the market. Over my time using these apps, I found it hard to believe how cluttered and cumbersome many of the budgeting apps out there are. I was initially ecstatic about the fact that I could have these apps automatically import my finances from my bank accounts, but while reading into some of the ways large companies treat user data within financial apps, I was honestly appalled at the fact that I was potentially giving away my data and access to my bank accounts!
Programming is one of my biggest passions, so naturally I attempted (it took a couple attempts) to create a lean and easy to use budgeting app that has now turned into KernelCash. Funnily enough, when this product was in what I would call KernelCash's "Alpha" state, it was good enough for me. I was more than happy to leave the app in its local-only, self-hosted state, but after talking with some friends, family, and colleagues about the app, and seeing their excitement to get their hands on it, I realized that this could be a valuable tool for many people other than myself. So, after nearly a year of hard work getting the core components and infrastructure of KernelCash up and running, I am finally ready to share it will all of you!
Feel free to ask me any question you all may have! I look forward to seeing what everyone has to say!