GitHub - ellite/Wallos: Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker

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GitHub - ellite/Wallos: Wallos: Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker
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Sharing the link to this project I found and really like. It's simple to setup with docker, simple to use but really helpful for people not already doing full-on budgeting, financial management.

It's allowed to me quickly setup all of my monthly, yearly, etc... subscriptions and see them in one place. It includes this nice summary screen so you can see what you're spending at a glance. (This is from my server but these are not the real numbers)

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This made me realize that, besides house services (mortgage, bills), SIM provider and a single website host+domain, I am currently completely subscription free and I think it's something to be proud of. Wow!

Well, except the subscriptions to stay alive (food, water, electrical).

Interesting that people have enough subscriptions that this would be worthwhile

"subscriptions" isnt just entertainment, you know. Rent, mortgage, car insurance, health insurance, other debt or insurance payments, money for your kids, stuff for your pets, and probably countless other options that I cannot think of in this exact moment. There are a lot of things that need regular paying that aren't fun.

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I mean streaming services alone would take a big hit if you like to have multiple. Then you have Cloud Storage , Gaming Subs (Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo), Music, Online Backups, etc.

It sucks but you end up with plenty quickly

I've been managing to dodge them and use free alternarives

Oh yeah sure. I do the same, well except some offers that were half price... and one had credit card cashback with my bank on top of that and they will last until they are too expensive. Or my deal with my work data plan that included Disney+.

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This looks awesome, it would be cool if you could integrate with Home Assistant and Ntfy.sh, both widely popular among self-hosters.

I tried it. If I count everything I pay periodically (more bills than subscriptions) I get to 13 things, and the monthly total was slightly higher than I thought due to yearly stuff like school.

Maybe it's just not for me. I'm not big on budgeting (I only really budget things that don't fit in last month's wage) . Used to do YNAB for about two years (the offline version you could buy on Steam) a lot of work for no benefit.

Even if you do properly budget, I don't see the value of this over using a spreadsheet.

Just deployed the container. This is truly amazing, I think I was missing that without actually knowing. It is and will be veeeery useful for me. Looks like there is a problem converting PHP to another currency atm but I guess it's fixer.io side.

Income to savings account and pay everything with card account, that way you move your spending money instead of income money. Huge psychological effect.