MeanIt - Clarity before you swipe. No budgets. No tracking.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Daniel — a banking professional by day, indie app builder my side quest. I'm the person my family and friends come to for help with money related guidance. Here's what I noticed. Some of them had budgets. Some didn't. But the common thread wasn't budgeting — it was that none of them fully considered their purchases before swiping. The pause was missing. Budget trackers tell you *what* you spent — after you've already spent it. That's a report card for decisions already made. What people actually needed was clarity *before* the swipe. I'd known about **Kakebo** for years — a 120-year-old Japanese practice created by Hani Motoko in 1904. Not a budgeting system. A mindfulness practice for money. The core idea: instead of asking "How much can I spend?", ask "How do I want to live?" I thought: what if I could turn that into an app? **MeanIt translates that into four honest questions you answer before any purchase.** Then you choose: - **Go** — "I mean it." - **Sleep On It** — "Give me 48 hours." - **Not Now** — "This isn't it." The 48-hour pause is where the magic lives. Most "Sleep On It" items never get bought — not because the app told you not to, but because time revealed what impulse was hiding. **What makes MeanIt different:** 🔒 **100% on-device.** No bank connections. No data harvesting. Your spending reflections stay yours. 🧘 **Not a budget tracker.** A spending mindfulness practice. No categories to manage. No receipts to scan. 🇯🇵 **Built on philosophy, not algorithms.** Kakebo has been helping people spend intentionally for 120 years. MeanIt brings it to your pocket. 📱 **Built with AI.** I have zero coding background. MeanIt is my third iOS app in 6 months, all built with Claude Code. Proof that the barrier to building is no longer code — it's clarity about what to build. **Pricing:** 7-day free trial, then $9.99/year or $2.99/month. Less than two regret purchases. I'd genuinely love your feedback — what works, what doesn't, what's missing. And I'm curious: **What's the last purchase you made that you wish you'd paused on for 48 hours?** Cheers.