Sam Gozman

Sam Gozman

Team Lead, Senior Backend Engineer, OSS

About

Senior Backend Engineer and Team Lead in banking and fintech, mostly Go, Node, and Rust. I've been coding since I was 12. Outside of work I build whatever I wish existed. Screeners and short-selling monitors for investors, an app that nags you before your documents expire, some 3D-printing and hardware stuff on the side. Lately I've been making iOS apps too

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Maker History

  • Recurred
    RecurredSubscription tracker for iPhone and Mac. Free, no account.
    Sep 2026
  • Validity.Red
    Validity.RedTrack expiration of your documents and sync with calendar
    May 2023
  • 🎉
    Joined Product HuntJanuary 16th, 2023

Forums

How do you decide a subscription is worth cancelling?

I built a subscription tracker, and the feature I'm least sure about is the one that suggests what to cut. Mine tracks how often you actually open each service over a set period and flags the ones you're paying for but not using.

But usage isn't the whole story. I keep an annual backup service I open maybe twice a year and would never cancel. Meanwhile I dropped a thing I opened weekly because the value stopped justifying the price.

So how do you actually decide? Usage, price, some gut feeling about whether you'd miss it? I'd like to know before I trust my own heuristic too much.

Recurred is launching here on Wednesday if you want to see what I did with it.

20h ago

Recurred - Subscription tracker for iPhone and Mac. Free, no account.

Recurred tracks every subscription and recurring bill without a bank login, an account, or a paid tier. Add what you pay for, and it shows your renewal calendar, the real yearly cost, and what you barely open. New: a native Mac app, built for the Mac rather than resized from the iPhone one. Plus multi-currency totals, widgets, price history, and an Optimizer that shows how often you use each service. Data stays on your device and syncs through your own iCloud. No ads, no tracking.

3yr ago

Validity.Red - Track expiration of your documents and sync with calendar

Validity.Red is a service for managing and tracking the validity period of documents (passports, certificates, insurance, visas, guarantees, etc.). You create documents and notifications through a simple interface for them to sync with your calendar.
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