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I don't quite understand the desire to have these verbose summaries that you have to read from LLMs. You'll notice anomalies if you just categorize each of your expenses every so often (easy with Tiller).", "context": "", "use_case": "Expense tracking in spreadsheets", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 766330640, "item_id": 47895665, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895665", "by": "cowlby", "date": "2026-04-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Tiller https://tiller.com/ is a good Plaid \"proxy\"", "excerpt": "Tiller https://tiller.com/ is a good Plaid \"proxy\". 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They take the transaction history from your linked bank accounts and store it in a google spreadsheet for you. That's it. $99 a year.", "excerpt": "I use Tiller. They take the transaction history from your linked bank accounts and store it in a google spreadsheet for you. That's it. $99 a year. From there I unleashed claude on my spending habits. 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Why is there", "context": "", "use_case": "financial data aggregation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"}, {"id": 736188608, "item_id": 46011788, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011788", "by": "eclipticplane", "date": "2025-11-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "dumps the data into a Google/Office365 spreadsheet that you control", "excerpt": "You missed https://tiller.com which uses the same financial connectors as others but dumps the data into a Google/Office365 spreadsheet that you control.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"}, {"id": 736155744, "item_id": 46009734, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009734", "by": "whyleyc", "date": "2025-11-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They can pull feeds in and refresh automatically but have a big privacy play", "excerpt": "Have you considered https://tiller.com/ ? They can pull feeds in and refresh automatically but have a big privacy play so that only you get to see your finances (and display and manage it in Excel or Google Sheets).", "context": "", "use_case": "Auto-syncing finance data to spreadsheets", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"}]}