Launched this week
OpBoard
Budget like a spreadsheet. Without the spreadsheet.
8 followers
Budget like a spreadsheet. Without the spreadsheet.
8 followers
Spreadsheets give you full control but eat your time. Budgeting apps automate things but hide you behind rigid workflows. OpBoard gives you both. Import CSV. Set keyword rules like "Costco" → Groceries — every import will auto-categorizes. AI suggests keywords too, but you decide what stays. Vendor-level breakdowns, category budgets, and charts — all on one page you fully control. Edit anything inline. No formulas. No maintenance. Free beta — no credit card. Use code OPBETA-PH-50 at signup.
Here's what I've noticed with most budget apps: they automate everything — and at first it feels great. But over time, you stop looking. The app is "handling it," so you check in less and less. And it doesn't even give you enough control over to get your budget done. Then one day you open it and realize you've been overspending for three months without noticing. Full automation sounds like a feature, but it actually kills the one thing that makes budgeting work: paying attention.
On the other end, spreadsheets force you to pay attention to everything. Every transaction, every formula, every month. It works — until you burn out and stop doing it entirely.
I built OpBoard to sit right between those two. The tedious parts — matching transactions to categories, spotting patterns — are automated with AI-suggested keywords. But you still see every transaction, you still decide where things go, and you still own the process. The intentionality stays, the busywork doesn't.
If you're reading this and you've bounced between apps and spreadsheets like I did, I genuinely hope this is the thing that finally sticks for you.