I replaced my Telegram bot and Google Sheet with my own MCP enabled open-source finance app (opens in new tab)
For a long time, my personal accounting system was a small automation stack: a Telegram bot wizard collected transaction details, wrote rows into Google Sheets, and custom spreadsheet charts handled the statistics. It was a good setup because Telegram made capture fast and Sheets made analysis flexible. But every improvement also meant keeping bot prompts, spreadsheet columns, formulas, and charts aligned. I built xpenser to keep the useful parts of that workflow while moving the repetitive s...
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