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Tiller is the company blog at tillerhq.com, writing about productivity and business. Since 2018, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Tiller: Auto import your finances into Google Sheets and Excel”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
35mentions?
20recommend?
31HN people?
2018–2025first – last linked?
Often recommended · 20 of 33 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link tillerhq.com for Tiller, a service that syncs bank and card transactions into a Google Sheet or Excel file. The comments are product recommendations, not discussion of any writing on the site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 33 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Only Tiller automatically tracks your daily spending, balances, and budgets in Google Sheets and Excel with flexible templates and top-rated support.
Most-linked posts?
- Tiller: Auto import your finances into Google Sheets and Excel19 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2018-04-17
- /7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2018-04-23
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-15
What Hacker News says?
You might be interested in Tiller Money https://www.tillerhq.com/ . They provide something very much along these lines, with the output being an auto-updating Google Sheet that you can do whatever you like with. You do still need to update credentials sometimes, but I've been using it for a few years and it works quite well.
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”Submitted Why Spreadsheets Are (Still) More Powerful Than Apps for Managing Money as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor the curious: https://www.tillerhq.com/ is the right url
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on “Actual is going open-source”Submitted Tiller: Auto import your finances into Google Sheets and Excel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can do this with Tiller ( https://www.tillerhq.com/ ), it pulls it down for you. Also when trying to remember the tiller app, I found that Excel now has this as part of office 365 https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/16/21292642/microsoft-money-...
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on “Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance”Tiller ( https://www.tillerhq.com/ ) does exactly this. You can dump the data into Google Sheets or into Excel.
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on “What happened to Mint?”I like TillerHQ ( https://tillerhq.com/ ) for just extracting the financial data and dumping into a spreadsheet.
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on “What happened to Mint?”It you’re just using it to get data into Google Sheets then you should checkout https://Tillerhq.com
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on “What happened to Mint?”After have using GnuCash, Mint, and about 100 other finance tracking apps, I'm convinced that Tiller Money is the best. Highly recommend checking it out. https://www.tillerhq.com Easy to set up and requires the least amount of ongoing work to accurately categorize transactions.
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on “Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash”When I was using Google sheets I was really looking at this company Tiller to auto-fetch my transactions. I never actually tried them out, but the service looks pretty compelling: https://www.tillerhq.com/
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on “Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash”Tiller is trying to build exactly that: https://www.tillerhq.com/ I haven't used, because I use personal capital and they both used Yodlee, and my biggest gripe about personal capital is yodlee isn't keeping up with 2fa style logins from banks
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on “Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash”I was using Tiller ( https://www.tillerhq.com ), pulling from US and European banks to a Google sheet, then a command line tool to pull CSV from there. This worked well except for not handling foreign currency (it calls everything $), adding a bit of extra latency/uncertainty on top of the back end (Yodlee), and eventually forgetting to update your sheet unless you manually visit it every so often. Currently I’m usi…
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on “Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager”https://www.tillerhq.com/ This is another service like this. I've been using them for around 6 months and haven't had any trouble with them.
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on “Build your own Mint”Shameless plug - I wrote a SaaS that's pretty much just a SMS <-> google spreadsheet mapper. https://byobudget.com That said, yours looks a lot more full-fledged than mine. Mine can only record transactions and then send a response (which it reads calculated from the spreadsheet based on the last transaction, which I'm very proud of for the level of customization it provides), but I've been noodling over how to add…
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on “My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting”Interesting, feels like they picked up on startups like Tiller ( https://www.tillerhq.com/ )
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on “GnuCash”I've been using Tiller for a few months: https://www.tillerhq.com/ Totally happy to pay for someone to maintain connections between bank APIs and a Google Spreadshert. Curious how long they'll last.
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on “The sad state of personal data and infrastructure”I think there could be something there, just needs to be tweaked. I recently came across this tool: https://www.tillerhq.com and instantly signed up. Think it's $10 a month or less. I think they do pretty good as well. All it is is syncs your bank data to a Google Sheet and has pre built templates. It doesn't have a great way of doing graphs tho, i'd love something like your tool but for analysing my transactions (n…
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on “Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what?”Check out Tiller! https://www.tillerhq.com/ I tried going down the route of dealing with OFX in GNUCash, and it's just a huge never-ending hassle. Tiller dumps the raw data from Yodlee (the backend that does the gnarly interfacing and cleaning for most PFM sites, besides Mint) into Google Sheets. From there you can use Apps Script or the Sheets API to push the data wherever you want. Sure, it's $5/mo, but well worth…
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on “Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepare Taxes”I use Google Sheets for personal finance with TillerHQ to automate downloading bank data. It is, as far as I know, the only workable solution in this space. http://www.tillerhq.com
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on “Spreadsheets Are Hot–and Cranking Out Complex Code”> I can recommend Tiller Money: https://tillerhq.com Looks interesting. Appears to be sign in with Google only, which is a shame.
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on “Ask HN: How are you preparing yourself for a recession?”I was just going to say "I'm just getting off my ass and tightening up my financial habits". For those of you like me, who like spreadsheets but don't know exactly where to start, I can recommend Tiller Money: https://tillerhq.com . Sometimes the best place to start is just "knowing where you stand". But there's lots of great tools for personal finance. Pick one and hop to it. But there's no secret magic there, and…
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on “Ask HN: How are you preparing yourself for a recession?”An easy way to take this to the next level (and be truly no-code) is: https://www.tillerhq.com/ I love being able to continue using Google Sheets shortcuts + automation features. It allows me to generate well-formed reports that I can analyze with pivot tables or any of my normal processes that I use for analyzing datasets.
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on “I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python”I started using Tiller for this recently. It’s essentially a shim later between Yodlee and Google Sheets. It doesn’t address your privacy concerns, of course, but I don’t think there’s any good solution outside of paying your banks for OFX access. I don’t use any of their sheet templates. I just download the raw transactions with the Sheets API and munge then into my ledger-cli based analysis system. https://www.til…
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on “Show HN: HoneyMoney – 100% more Bees than any other personal finance software”I found a good balance with Tiller ( https://www.tillerhq.com/ ). It gets everything in one spreadsheet where I can query and get quick summaries with ease.
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on “Ask HN: Spending Tracking Tools”I'm a big fan of Tiller [1], which is a paid service that basically just connects Yodlee to Google Docs or Excel. It will dump all your transactions and balance info into a spreadsheet and you can do what you want with it. It also has lots of templates for things like budgeting etc. I run a daily cron job that loads the transaction data and produces a nice Jupyter-based report. It will require some custom building,…
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on “Ask HN: Spending Tracking Tools”Another option in this space is Tiller ( https://www.tillerhq.com/ ). They seem well-established, and offer some spreadsheet templates for plug-and-play solutions to some common budgeting scenarios. If you don't care about spreadsheets specifically -- if you're just looking for scriptable access to your financials -- Lunch Money ( https://lunchmoney.app ) has a public API. They'll also be opening the beta of rollove…
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on “Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets”https://www.tillerhq.com/ It's basically an addon for google sheets and excel online that imports transactions into some premade templates. It's paid, but directly gives you the power of sheets.
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on “Ask HN: How do you manage your personal budget?”To see an interesting use -- check out https://www.tillerhq.com/ . An entire business built on top of google sheets. Unfortunately, i didn't care for it (I didn't like the way they handled splits or the import from amazon)
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on “Ask HN: What do you use Google Sheets for?”Tiller may meet your needs. https://www.tillerhq.com/
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on “Ask HN: Best way to trigger a webhook every time I swipe my AMEX?”https://www.tillerhq.com/tiller-microsoft-partnership/
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on “Mint is shutting down, and it's pushing users toward Credit Karma”
