I built Bounded Self after burning out. And then burning out again. The recovery tools worked. What none of them gave me was data on when I was slipping back. I'd make exceptions: just this deadline, just this week. Before I noticed, I was back at zero with no record of how I got there. That cycle is what no one talks about: burnout has a hidden failure mode, and it's the slow permission you give yourself to slide. I had been borrowing from the future and running in an energy deficit and barely getting back to a baseline "okay" before making an energy debt again. So I started logging what things cost me on a 1-10 scale. Within weeks, the data showed me what I couldn't feel: a meeting I thought was fine was consistently an 8. A category that sat at 3 for months jumped to 7. The insight isn't the number; it's the delta. **That's Bounded Self: a bank statement for your energy.** The part other apps don't do: **envelope-style energy budgets.** Monday has 3 big presentations? Budget for it and protect the days around it. Stop running on surprise deficits. - **Free:** unlimited tracking, 7-day analysis, cost-shift detection - **Premium:** budgets, long-term analysis, data-driven experiments, custom categories - No credit card. Your data is yours. Built for engineers, PMs, quantified-self types, and anyone going through burnout where energy is the most finite resource. What would you track first?

Bounded Self

A bank statement for your energy

A bank statement for your energy