... little more than half of the year, with the other half of my time split between various places. - I generally am a fairly frugal person who is trying to FIRE. - I operate My Financ , and all of the screen shots and data will come from there. - I don't cover income here, just expenses. Okay, with the procedural things out of the way, these are my expenses per month for the year of 2025. My biggest category of the year ... ... yearly expenses. Here is my gas (petrol for euros?) spend per month: My miscellaneous spend was also very large in December, but this makes sense. I got my oil changed, bought some presents, and paid for ads for My Financ

... building My Financ , which is a tool that allows you to understand your finances, and plan for the future. I launched on PH in September, got some users and have been iterating. I have so far observed that: I am very good at churning users Relatedly, I am very bad at converting users to paying customers I have done a bad job at finding a narrow scope to be excellent at From this, I considered if there ...

... have been (slowly) building My Financ . I shipped some features over the past few months that felt interesting to share, so I build a sandbox that runs an almost-fully-featured version of the app ( here ) with dummy data. you can go in there, click around, and see what the feature set looks like: is this confusing? on intuition i feel like people hate guided product 'tours' so have strayed away from this, but maybe it isn't clear ...

... obsessed over that most users will never notice but you're really proud of? Almost all of the time on the app was actually spent just trying to update the main app I wanted to drive traffic too -- my financ . I ended up thinking that OG images would be important for shareability, so I set up a server to be able to render a nice OG image when you share your results. Honestly, I wouldn't say I'm proud ... ... chrome extension that kills your tabs at some interval (unless they are "spared"). It's both helpful and super annoying when you're using a tab and it gets slain. My main side project continues to be My Financ

... viral coefficient. The end goal was to drive traffic to my main project, and here is how that panned out: (arrow shows launch) So around 335 visitors driven to my project! I think ~20 people signed up for My Financ from this campaign. I am so excited about this! There are still a ton of instabilities in My Financ

... super psyched about? did you go viral and see a thicc spike in your google search console traffic with some witty tweet? I have no thicc traffic numbers to be jazzed about yet, but when working on My Financ I spent a ton of time making a recursive grouping function and table for transactions. it allows you to slice up your spending in tons of ways, (I made it extensible so I could in theory allow users to define their ...