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Run your household money like a production system.

Name: The Money Ops Dashboard Kit
Brand: Tideline
Price: 59.00 USD
Availability: InStock

The Money Ops Dashboard Kit is the engineering guide — plus working reference code — for a self-hosted personal-finance dashboard: small Python collectors on cron, honest JSON feeds, and one static page that shows your real position. No subscriptions, no app, no one else holding your data.

Get the Kit — $59

One-time purchase · instant download · 9-chapter guide + working dashboard + 6 collectors · free v1.x updates

Your money, measured like infrastructure

Budgeting apps show you pie charts. This kit gives you the machinery underneath — the same architecture a family actually runs every day:

Debt payoff, as a date

A month-by-month avalanche/snowball simulator over your real balances — your debt-free date becomes an output of current data, recomputed on cron, never a guess.

The money calendar

Every autopay with the account it drafts from, every expected inflow — and the one question that hurts: is there enough in the right account on the day it drafts?

Sinking-fund waterfall

Tuition, trips, the emergency fund — named funds with targets, deadlines, priorities, and the monthly math that shows the gap instead of hiding it.

Cash flow from bank CSVs

Works with any bank on earth. Content-based dedupe, keyword rules you garden, and transfers quarantined so your totals stop lying.

Alerts with consequences

Not "balance is low" — "the $619 autopay on the 18th will bounce." Deduped, stateful, and staleness is a first-class alarm.

Net worth, append-only

One honest row a day, liquid tracked separately from total — because a comforting aggregate is the most dangerous number in personal finance.

Written from a real household, scars included

The dividend spent twice — how the same inflow got counted by two independent feeds, the week the plan was quietly fiction, and the one-fact-one-home rule that fixed a whole class of errors.
The ten-cent API that overdrew checking — a metered bank-data aggregator billing in arrears, one ~$108 ACH surprise, and the call-rate cap that should have been there from day one.
The week the total looked fine — net worth held steady while checking went negative, and why "liquid" became a first-class number on the page.

Honesty, up front: this is an engineering kit, not financial advice, and no tool makes money appear. What it does is make your position visible and fresh — payoff dates from live balances, obligations with dates and source accounts, estimates labeled as estimates. If you want an app to feel good in, the app stores are full of them. If you want to own the pipeline, this is the box of parts with the manual.

What's in the download

The Guide

9 chapters, ~45 minutes, zero filler.

Architecture → the feed contract → balances, cash flow, debt, goals, calendar, alerts, net worth → operations, ending with a two-week build order. Clean HTML: read anywhere, print to PDF.

dashboard/index.htmlthe single-file dashboard — renders every feed, marks stale cards, zero dependencies

debt_sim.pyavalanche/snowball simulator → your debt-free date

goals.pysinking funds + the waterfall math

money_calendar.pyobligations, inflows, warning window

bank_csv.pyany-bank CSV import · dedupe · category rules

alerts.pycondition+consequence alerts, deduped, via email API

networth_history.pyappend-only daily snapshot, liquid vs total

stripe_revenue.pyside-business revenue + MRR collector

data/ + crontab.exampleeditable sources of truth + the schedule

Python 3.10+, standard library only, heavily commented. Ships with example data so the dashboard renders the moment you unzip it — then you replace the examples with your numbers.

Get the Kit — $59

Secure checkout by Stripe · download link on-screen and by email

Building the trading side too? The kit pairs with The Trading Engine Blueprint — same feeds-and-collectors philosophy, applied to running an autonomous trading engine.

Details

Who is this for?: People comfortable running a Python script and editing a JSON file — or willing to learn with a very patient manual. If you can schedule a cron job, you can run this. Everything works locally; a $6 VPS makes it reachable from your phone.
Who is it not for?: Anyone wanting a polished app, automatic bank syncing out of the box, or financial advice. The kit is manual-first by design (chapter 4 explains why that's a feature), and it tells you what to build, not what to buy.
Does it connect to my bank?: Out of the box it works from CSV exports (every bank has them) and hand-updated balances. The guide covers wiring an aggregator (Plaid, Stripe Financial Connections, SimpleFIN) to the highest-value account — including the metered-billing trap to avoid.
Format & delivery: One ZIP, delivered instantly after checkout (on-screen + emailed link). The guide is clean HTML — read in any browser, print to PDF.
Refunds: All sales are final — it's a digital download, delivered instantly, and this page tells you exactly what's inside (including what isn't). Delivery problem? Email support@tideline.money and we'll make it right. Policy.
License & updates: Personal-use license: adapt and run the code for your own household, including on your own servers; no redistribution of the package itself. v1.x updates are emailed free.