Introduction Coin is a tool I built to help me manage my personal finances. It allows users to track their income and spending by categorizing spending into two categories Fixed - the monthly amount is the same every month or known ahead of time (rent, car payment, etc.) Flexible - where the monthly amount varies each month (groceries, gas, etc.) Why build Coin I’ve used zero based budgeting in in the past, but felt like it made me miss the forest through the trees. ...
Introduction Dump is a tool I built to help me capture items and help get rid of “open loops” (borrowing David Allen’s terms). It allows users to enter items into a simple text box and then review that list. On the backend, a text embedding service I built as a companion project, Embeder, stores the idea’s embedding so I can see similar items when reviewing the list Here’s Dump in action: ...
Introduction Hours allows you to create projects and track how long you have worked on them. There are many, many other applications that solve this problem (most much more effectively than hours). I built Hours for two reasons. I wanted to build a CLI app in Go. This was a great opportunity to try that out. I was curious to experience how sharing types between client and server shaped development. TL;DR - I loved it. Here’s Hours in action: ...
Introduction Biodata allows you to track a few personal health metrics like weight, waist, and blood pressure. I’ve used other apps to do this in the past, but wanted to build my own for two reasons. This felt like a tractable way to build a small “from scratch” application I’m less and less comfortable sharing data of any kind with any third party. Thank you AI… Here’s Biodata in action: ...