Thriftledger: bank accounts, budgets and spending reports for a household
Bank accounts, CSV import that skips duplicates, rules that categorize, monthly budgets and spending reports.
Agent specs
- Agent
- Claude Code, Opus 5.5 Medium
- Time
- 24 min
- Cost
- $8.30*
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* Cost at API rates, September 2026.
Run it yourself
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Install elements:
curl -fsSL 'https://install.elements.dev?os=darwin' | sh && export PATH=~/elements/bin:$PATH
Create an Elements app from the elementscode/demo-thriftledger scaffold:
cd ~/elements/projects
elements create thriftledger -scaffold=elementscode/demo-thriftledger
cd thriftledger
Start the app.
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Build a personal budgeting app named thriftledger. - Accounts. Add bank accounts (checking, savings, credit card). - Import transactions from a bank CSV export: map the date, description and amount columns once per account, and skip duplicates. - Categorize transactions; rules that categorize by description automatically. - A monthly budget per category, with spent and remaining. - Reports: spending by category (donut), income versus spending by month (bars), and net worth over time. - Split a transaction across categories. Seed one user with three accounts, six months of realistic transactions, categories, rules and budgets. Show the seeded login on the sign-in page. Budgets and reports update in real time as transactions are imported and categorized.
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