spendingagain

Inspiration

SpendingAgain was inspired by my own habit of trying (and failing) to track my expenses. I wanted to build something simple, and smart enough to help me stay consistent.

What it does

SpendingAgain lets you track your expenses using natural language.
Just type something like “bought coffee for $3” and it saves it.

How I built it

Built 100% with Bolt No backend, just local, fast, and private.

Challenges

I originally wanted to use Supabase and Stripe, but ran into many errors with Bolt (skill issue).
I also had no experience integrating those, so I decided to keep it 100% local.

Accomplishments

• Learned how to prompt effectively
  
• Created a working offline expense tracker
  
• Shipped something useful for myself!

What I learned

• How to write better AI prompts
  
• How to design and build a minimal app
  
• Sometimes simplicity > complexity

What’s next

• Add recurring expenses
  
• Improve natural language parsing
  
• Maybe try adding Supabase if I have more time!

Built With

• bolt
• react
• vite