Billy Bones

The idea behind Billy Bones was to make a simple bill tracking program.

Most financial programs are built around double-entry bookkeeping — a system of debits and credits. Which makes sense but was also a total overkill for my use case.

I wanted something simpler, something more akin to Google Spreadsheets, or maybe Airtable, but with better performance, and which also would let me own my data.

Billy Bones have been in development for a while, across multiple projects, with multiple technologies both on backend and on frontend. But this iteration — the most suitable for my needs, I think — is built on Django because of its ease of development (when it comes to most CRUD anyway) and powerful admin interface.

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