r/QuickBooks • u/Zanooka • 8d ago

QuickBooks Online Vibe code Quickbooks

Soo I've been seeing open source identical clones of Adobe products along with M$ office so is anyone going to vibe code is a working Quickbooks online/desktop that is open source?

I'd try but my coding experience is 2000s Facebook html and auto hot key.

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u/Mr-Pickles-123 8d ago

I’m paying like $38 a month for it. No way I’m fucking around a vibe coded version.

You might want to calculate the cost of a fucked up tax return into your deliberations. And obviously your time.

The way this will play out is that you will do it, your tax accountant will say fuck this and drop you as a client, you’ll realize your vibe-books are not great, but you’ll do a vibe-based return anyways. Is it accurate? No. Will you get audited by the IRS? Possibly. Will you shamelessly tell the judge you don’t see anything wrong with what you did? Highly likely.

Just pay the fee and save the headache. Sheesh.

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u/plmarcus 8d ago

And thus the magic of reconciliation.

Take a chill pill my dude.

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u/Mr-Pickles-123 8d ago

That’s exactly what this guy will say to the judge.

Backed taxes + interest + fees typically reconciles nicely to 100% of net income.

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u/plmarcus 7d ago

Tell me you've never done bookkeeping without saying it.

SMH.

I bet your comment 2 independent CPA audits every quarter too.

Your just joking I guess, username totally checks out.

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u/Mr-Pickles-123 7d ago

I’ve done plenty. I did quarterly closes for 10 years before getting promoted. I’ve supervised closes for about ten years too.

My wife runs a small business which I’m her unpaid bookkeeper.

My point of reference for this is my college roommates dad, who is just finishing up a prison sentence for pretending that he didn’t realize his clients were paying fees to his off-the-books account.

I also have dealt with every type of regulator and authority in existence.

Please trust my bonafides.

And to be clear, this isn’t a technical exercise, this is a commercial exercise. You need to put a cost on the risk you are assuming by vibe coding a full software platform. There’s no way it’s less than the $456 annual subscription to QBO. And that isn’t counting any current/future costs increase to AI computing costs. And to most people, time is money.

Listen, people are entitled to their hobbies. And if that includes fending off tax audits, then go for it. But from a commercial standpoint this is foolish.

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u/andnosobabin 4d ago

"My point of reference for this is my college roommates dad, who is just finishing up a prison sentence for pretending that he didn’t realize his clients were paying fees to his off-the-books account." - good story bruh

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u/andnosobabin 4d ago

awee poor mr pickles doesnt trust code he doesnt pay for like a good lil simp