Cointraq
A calm, self-hosted personal expense tracker for one person. Tracks bank, cash and credit-card spending, budgets, recurring payments and balances privately, with whole-rupee precision and Asia/Kolkata time.
08 / Built in the open
Code you can
run yourself.
The public workshop: projects released as open source, free to clone, self-host and read.
Run it yourself / about 15 minutes
From fork to live
in six steps.
Free tiers all the way down: a GitHub fork, a Postgres database and a Vercel project. You own the app, the data and every row in it.
- 01Fork the repository30 sec
Your own copy on GitHub.
- 02Create a Postgres database2 min
Neon's free tier is plenty.
- 03Generate your secrets2 min
One password, one session key.
- 04Create the tables1 min
Migrations only, no dummy data.
- 05Deploy on Vercel3 min
Import, add three variables, ship.
- 06Sign in and set up5 min
Accounts, methods, categories.
rahul@atlas: ~/cointraq
git clone https://github.com/<you>/cointraq && cd cointraqnpm cinpm run hash-password -- 'your-password'APP_PASSWORD_HASH=JDJiJDEwJFp2bG9o...openssl rand -base64 48q3Vt9Xh0mK2c... (your SESSION_SECRET)DATABASE_URL="postgres://..." npm run db:migrateMigrations applied. Empty ledger ready.Import the fork on vercel.com, add the three variables, deploy.Ready https://your-cointraq.vercel.app
Or let an agent do it
Full step by step guide Deploy https://github.com/rahulm16/cointraq to Vercel for me. Create a free Neon Postgres database, generate APP_PASSWORD_HASH with `npm run hash-password -- '<my password>'` and SESSION_SECRET with `openssl rand -base64 48`, run `npm run db:migrate` against the new database, set DATABASE_URL, APP_PASSWORD_HASH and SESSION_SECRET in the Vercel project, and deploy. Do not run the seed script.