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I smell financier-toolkit.

Hey @Alex, are you literally a one-man shop? Was just curious... someone pointed it out as a liability if something should go wrong. I'm not terribly concerned, given how many one person shops produce awesome software I buy and use, but it's an interesting point. I'd be sad if I was completely invested and you decided to close up shop someday without an heir apparent. 

lol Yeah it's just me.

I believe I said somewhere (reddit?) that Financier is pretty durable for a couple reasons:

1. I will release the source code under MIT if I stop development.
2. Financier's unique syncing design means that it could be easily tweaked to run in a standalone environment on your own computer with minimal code changes. No need to run an API, payment gateway, email sending system, other 3rd party APIs etc. (I'm pretty proud of this.)

Also, despite it just being me, I do document my code.

The bus factor is high though b/c I'm the only one developing Financier. Perhaps I will make some dead man's switch to open source the codebase if I ever kick the bucket.

So I just enabled Google's "Inactive account manager" w/ instructions for family on what to do to open source Financier. So we should be good here.

If it's ever open sourced, it'll be in gitlab.com/financier.

Quote from: Alex on November 30, 2016, 04:57:35 PM
...Google's "Inactive account manager" w/ instructions for family on what to do to open source Financier...

Sounds like you've just written your digital Will

Yeah, the instructions to my relatives:

1. Open source financier
2. Contact x person in y project
3. Decide what to do with my web domains/website
4. Delete my porn



I already have instructions set up on Vanguard re: money.

Quote from: Alex on November 04, 2016, 05:48:27 PM
I smell financier-toolkit.

Alex, for Desktop feature requests, would you consider implementing a browser extension toolkit to handle the workload whilst leaving the code as streamline as possible?
I'm not sure how you're handling the mobile, will it just be shown differently in a url like https://m.financier.io ?

I was looking at the ynab-toolkit and could see there are some good ideas in there as well as things which just add too many 'nice to haves'.
Like an investment portfolio snap-in, I could see this get attached to at toolkit rather than building it in the financier core since it should be on budgets alone.
I'm just wondering what your thoughts are with a toolkit for desktop users because a lot of my feature requests heavily rely on desktop for my main budgeting and mobile for my day to day transactions.

Mobile will be essentially the same app/code except optimized for the devices. So same URL.

If someone did build a financier-toolkit, it would be independent of Financier and they could build whatever functionality they want. 👍

Quote from: Alex on November 30, 2016, 06:04:47 PM
Mobile will be essentially the same app/code except optimized for the devices. So same URL.

If someone did build a financier-toolkit, it would be independent of Financier and they could build whatever functionality they want. 👍

So you would much prefer all your work and code to be built in to Financier core.
And for the mobile version with the same code it's just a matter of presentation/viewing for different screen real estate, right?

Well kinda. Some parts like the budget screen will just be optimized. Other parts like transaction entering are gonna be completely different UI to make them usable.

Quote from: Alex on November 30, 2016, 06:28:29 PM
Well kinda. Some parts like the budget screen will just be optimized. Other parts like transaction entering are gonna be completely different UI to make them usable.

Understood. I haven't used it for mobile because i couldn't see any columns in transaction. The budget wasn't too bad. Looking forward to seeing it in action!

Quote from: Alex on November 30, 2016, 04:25:20 PM
The bus factor...

LOL. Well, that got dark fast.