I am Matthew, I previously made enterprise web applications. Now I have some free time on my hand and I wanted to explore creative and useful apps out there, review them and learn from it. I am coming out of my corporate s/w development shell.
I've been a developer for 16+ years. I ran a profitable project for years (2009-2015) until Twitter's (now X) API changes killed it overnight. Since then I've been quietly building something new, dogfooding it on my own finances for years, hosted on a server in my basement closet. I finally found the time to polish it and open it up.
I named it ZenExpenses (https://zenexpenses.com), an expense tracker and budgeting app built around one idea: you upload bank statements (CSV, PDF, Excel, QuickBooks) instead of connecting your bank account. Skipping the third party bank connection is deliberate. I'm holding out for the day open banking is properly adopted. And no, it is not hosted on my basement server anymore if you were wondering.
We're partnering with Vercel to bring Vercel Day back to the leaderboard
If you're building on Vercel, now is the time to get ready to launch. Schedule your product for June 16th, add the tag vercel-day to your launch, and you're in.
