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Early on for me, I didn't build my product for users - I built it because I faced a problem and I didn't have a desktop solution. Once successful in solving the problem, I figured other users could benefit. Whether or not I am correct will ultimately be determined by 1. Good marketing (for which I need help ... did I say HELP), and 2. User adoption. There's also a Users "needs vs wants"...
How do you decide which features to add to your product? [building & improvements]
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PrivateACB — Desktop crypto tax calculator for Canada, US, Australia, and UK. Stack: - Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) — Desktop app, not SaaS. Rust handles all the financial math with lossless decimal precision. React frontend, Vite bundler. - SQLite + SQLCipher — Encrypted database, all data stays on the user's machine. Big selling point for tax software. - Typst — PDF generation for tax...
What are you building, and what does your stack look like?
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Hi Tatiana - I found your thread because I searched on "tax" to find related posts to my product, however, I read what you're doing but I have not investigates Flamingo Compliance ever so please take my comments in that light. As a traveler if I could use the app to instantly by county, visa requirements (for me based on my travel documents) - visa requirements, procedures, visa cost, limit of...
Building a travel-days tracker for tax/visa compliance — would love feedback
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Crypto tax calculations should be guaranteed Private.
That's why I built PrivateACB (Adjusted Cost Base). It sits somewhere between spreadsheet hell and cloud based tax calculations. Runs on your desktop, encrypted. Produces tax reports. Too often, people sacrifice privacy for convenience - this is a dangerous habit. Your cloud information is easy pickings for Companies and Individuals that don't have your best interest in mind. Some of them are...
A desktop crypto tax calculator built for privacy. Your transaction data never touches a server — all calculations happen locally, encrypted with AES-256.
One-time $39 purchase, not a yearly subscription. 30-day free trial with full features.
Generates CPA-ready reports:
US — Form 8949, Schedule D, wash sale detection, FIFO/LIFO/HIFO
Canada — Schedule 3, T1135, superficial loss, ACB method
Handles 100K+ transactions across 10+ exchanges. Account-by-account basis tracking for 2025
Private, offline Crypto Tax CalculatorPrivate, offline crypto tax calculator for US & Canada
Robert Vassovleft a comment
I started building this because something about crypto tax software never sat right with me: to calculate your taxes, you have to upload your entire transaction history — every buy, sell, transfer, wallet address — to someone else's server. That's a massive amount of financial data handed to a third party, just to do math that could run on your own machine. So I built a tool that does exactly...
Private, offline Crypto Tax CalculatorPrivate, offline crypto tax calculator for US & Canada