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Kick’s CEO and founder, Conrad Wadowski, posted a message on LinkedIn to former Bench users about how Kick is “working to get your financials back in your hands.”

That is, of course, until they inevitably fuck it all up and pull a similar stunt.

Host your own open source software

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Do you have good recommendation for accounting software, specifically for a construction contractor? Because I’m sick of QuickBooks raising their prices constantly and repeatedly trying to upsell me on stupid shit.

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I’m using GNUCash. I have no idea if it’s good or not, because that’s all I’ve ever used, but it works well enough.

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Second for GNUCash - there’s a bit of a learning curve, but once you get used to it, it works great!

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This is another example of why you should self host if you have the means to do so.

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Scumbags

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Bench, a Canada-based accounting startup that offered software-as-a-service for small and medium-sized businesses, has abruptly shut down, according to a

That sentence also shut down apruptly. How fitting.

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? Here’s the rest, not sure why you’re not seeing it:

notice posted on its website.

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Maybe it is a client thing, but I saw this especially fitting.

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Very odd for that to happen so abruptly. I’m sure the juicy details will come out sooner or later…

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Announcing an impending bankruptcy has the potential to hasten it or, in some cases, cause it. Employees and customers are usually kept in the dark while management and investors know.

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Especially days before the year is over, which is probably the worst time for it to happen.

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