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Ekselio

Loveable for finance workflows (local first)

Details

External ID
49849986
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Ekselio
Website domain
gptbeyond.com
Launched
Sept. 25, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
42
Upvotes percentile
0.8341307814992025
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.

Description

Hi everyone, I am KD - Back in my college days, I dabbled with coding, learned the basics, HTML, CSS etc. but somehow I ended up in Finance which consumed the next 20 years. Then, during covid I picked up coding again, learned react, typescript, etc - even built a rudimentary site - and then came the chatgpt moment, followed by Claude etc.So, as a side project, considering that I had spent 20 years in finance and M&A I started building Ekselio, loveable for finance workflows.Differently from other vibe coding tools, this is local first - meaning the workflows are orchestrated by the LLM based on the file schema but then the execution happens in the browser - the cool thing is that you can see the canvas, the previews of each node, and the code base (SQl) - see the Canvas tab.That said I did include a home tab, which is more of a visual, mainly because people think it's easier to relate to how folks operate, although I know finance and accounting folks usually like the workflow and full transparency - the other thing is that once you create a workflow you can save it and then next month,you can just click Run and it runs it again with no LLM tokes involved - so the infrastructure is minimal.Everything can be exported in an excel data pack with M code in case someone would want to reproduce - think Audit ready. And, I also connected to quickbooks on line so someone can directly pull in and manipulate their financials live - I also connected to Fred which carries literally 800k series in terms of macro economic data - i.e. oil prices, inflation, CPI etc and finally to stocks.I am hoping people find holes in the architecture or any ideas to make this flow a little bit better. It is in progress so if you run into bugs let me know. Considering that I am using my own API key, I have put a wall in case people overuse it but DM me if you would like to continue using, I can turn off the wall for you - hoping to keep that to a small number of users if I can and will do my best. Thank you again, appreciate you taking the time.

Enrichment

Theme
indie hacker passion projects
Vertical
Fintech
Function
Workflow automation
Audience
B2B
AI stance
AI-native
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
local-first workflow builder for finance teams
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Running local-first analytics with DuckDB-WASM and UI canvas is feasible, but building reliable two-way accounting sync and financial validation logic for QuickBooks Online requires deep domain expertise.

What it would actually take: The stack uses Next.js, DuckDB-WASM for in-browser SQL analytics, and Intuit OAuth integrations. The challenging aspect is managing QuickBooks API rate limits, complex double-entry accounting schemas, and bi-directional reconciliations without corrupting production financial ledgers.

Discussion

4 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: QuickBooks

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 71 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #10 of 72 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.

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