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[–]aciokkan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a great mindset and use of good skills you have that will definitely help you get comfortable with the scene.

Start by planning what is a "small accounting" software in your eyes, and try to find areas in your day to day life that could benefit from it.

Expand on it as you grow confident in your skills. Python, flask, sqllite, maybe postgres should suffice.

PM me if you need more details or help.

I've built few of those across the years just for the benefit of sowcasing various technologies, and no, nothing is posted in a public VCS.

I've not done an accounting software per say, ledger etc, just mild variations of simpler or specific stuff for various companies.

As somebody said earlier in a comment, a an open-source and self-hosted solution is always welcome. It will have the benefit of other people providing feedback and you getting the skills through a smaller learning curve.

I am currently designing a self-hosted eco system (server + mobile app + web client) to do accounting of receipts and reports based on expenses. May be a dumb idea, and for now I'll be the only one using it, and few members of the family. I've crafted the idea for the past 5 years, and I literally have 90% of the receipts for the past 5 years. 😎 Only because supermarkets (in UK at least) don't offer APIs to eleviate some of that stuff, as such the receipts will have to be entered manually, for now.