Track personal finances nightly from bank emails

A non-coder had Claude Code build a finance tracker that pulls bank emails, categorizes spending, and runs nightly on a Raspberry Pi.

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What they did

Fahad Hasin, who says he knows little coding, had Claude Code build a personal finance tracker that runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 he already owned. It combines bank update emails from several accounts and payment methods, categorizes spending, and adds context from merchant emails. A local Llama 3.2:3B model does the categorizing. A cron job runs it nightly with no manual steps.

How it went

He says it works better than he expected, and the nightly run needs no manual steps. The post gives no accuracy figures, and the author admits he can't judge the code quality.

Worth knowing

Local model means no token costs and no third party seeing your transactions; the author says a small miscategorisation is tolerable here.

Source: fahadhasin.substack.com · Undated