Theme · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
Personal finance and investing
Budgeting, expense and subscription tracking, bill splitting, pay tracking, trading journals, stock research and crypto tools.
New projects this week
114
Last 12 weeks
1,193
Share of all new projects
4.4%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-13%
Share of new projects, per week
Groups in this theme
| Group | This week | 12 wks | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal budgeting and expense trackers | 26 | 239 | -14% |
| Subscription and recurring charge trackers | 18 | 125 | 0% |
| Retail trading tools and journals | 13 | 115 | +8% |
| AI stock research tools | 11 | 118 | ▼ -27% |
| Investment portfolio trackers | 11 | 77 | -5% |
| Shift, hours and pay trackers | 10 | 87 | ▼ -29% |
| Receipt scanning & expense tracking | 6 | 98 | ▼ -22% |
| SEC filing stock research tools | 6 | 59 | +16% |
| Personal finance planners and trackers | 5 | 128 | -12% |
| Crypto trading and portfolio tools | 5 | 45 | +13% |
| Crypto wallets and payment tools | 2 | 51 | ▼ -21% |
| Group expense splitting apps | 1 | 51 | ▼ -47% |
Stack
Share of the 342 projects in this theme that stated their stack, last 12 weeks.
- Vercel 17%
- React 13%
- PostgreSQL 10%
- TypeScript 9%
- Supabase 8%
- Python 8%
- Stripe 8%
- Next.js 7%
AI tools
Same projects.
Most discussed this week
- I vibe coded a 3D island where… — Renders companies as buildings on a 3D island, with building height scaled to market cap.“I vibe coded a 3D island where every building is a company”
- FlyBudget — Tracks monthly budgets, recurring transactions, accounts, and spending with cash flow and custom reports.“I spent the last couple months building a free, private, open-source budgeting app”
- Preburn — Joins per-customer Stripe revenue with AI provider call costs to show margin per customer and can deny, reroute, or cap requests before expensive calls run.“I created my first open-source project today, and it feels amazing”
- PocketIQ Wealth — Combines budgeting, debt payoff, compound interest, net worth tracking and retirement planning in one manual-entry app with no bank connection.“I spent 15 years bouncing between finance apps and finally built the one I wanted”
- Stash it — Tracks product warranties, subscriptions and documents on the phone, storing everything locally without cloud sync.“Warranty, subscriptions and documents expiry tracking”
- TradeHints — Generates analysis reports for stock tickers the user enters.“I got 240 people to use a tool I built. Reddit was basically the only thing that worked”
- FortisBudget — Tracks personal spending and budgets through manual entry or CSV bank imports, with savings goals, recurring bills, charts, and an optional AI insight feature.“I “vibe-coded” a free budgeting app with no bank linking. Looking for testers and honest feedback”
- Profitly — Shows profit margin per customer by combining Stripe revenue with AI provider costs and flags unprofitable accounts.“Built a dashboard to see which customers are actually profitable after AI costs”
- I built a SaaS that turns… — Converts Telegram trading signals into exchange orders with risk checks, position sizing, stop loss and multiple take profits.“I built a SaaS that turns Telegram trading signals into exchange orders and the hard part wasn't the API”
- Pare — Tracks time spent in each app from the Mac menu bar and converts each subscription's cost into a cost per hour of use.“I built a menu bar app that divides each subscription by the hours you actually use it”
Latest
- PayTrack — Tracks bill payments and shows upcoming due dates.“PayTrack got some new features lately”
- Simple Recurring Budget Tracker — Tracks recurring income and expenses, compares them, and highlights upcoming items.“Simple Recurring Budget Tracker”
- Split-Up — Splits shared expenses among a group, including itemized restaurant bills read from photos, and tracks who owes whom.“I built a bill splitter for Nepal, including shared meals and festival expenses”
- MoneyLog — Scans bank and card SMS alerts on an Android device for a chosen period and imports detected transactions into an offline expense ledger.“I built an Android expense tracker that turns bank SMS into a ledger — only when you choose to scan”
- Monigo — Logs expenses and reconciles them against imported PDF bank statements, flagging only missing or mismatched entries.“I built a budget app that checks your expenses against your bank statement for you – free beta, everything on-device”
- DeepTrade — Lets a user chat with a Telegram bot that researches stocks, drafts Upstox orders, and places them only after manual confirmation.“I spent 2 weeks fighting the Upstox API so I could talk to my broker on Telegram - open-sourced the whole thing”
- Profitly — Shows profit margin per customer by combining Stripe revenue with AI provider costs and flags unprofitable accounts.“Built a dashboard to see which customers are actually profitable after AI costs”
- tradingdek — Builds rule-based crypto trading strategies without code, backtests them on Binance data with fees, and runs them as paper bots or signal feeds.“I built a crypto backtester that tells you when your strategy is just luck”
- Cash Div — Provides a tool for Colombo Stock Exchange dividend information.“How my indie web app subdomain managed to rank #3 on Google, right below the official Colombo Stock Exchange (cse.lk)”
- ShiftPay — Records planned and worked shifts, breaks, overtime and leave, and estimates earnings from rosters and pay rates.“Roast ShiftPay: an Android roster and estimated-pay tracker for irregular shifts”
- MoneyLexa — Tracks expenses and income with budgets, reports, charts, multiple accounts and exports to PDF, CSV, Excel and JSON.“[iOS] [39.99$ -> Free Lifetime] 160 Free Lifetime Licenses for MoneyLexa —”
- Finstigate — Consolidates bank statements across currencies and countries into a personal finance tracker with recurring bills, tagging, and net worth tracking, queryable conversationally via MCP.“I built an app that turns my bank statements into a multi-currency financial system I can explore with Claude”
- ive been working on something… — Tracks net worth over time and projects retirement savings with a calculator.“ive been working on something for a while now, its only vibe coded but i find it usefull”
- Wanted to build something with… — Explains stock market concepts in plain language, with the aim of giving back to students, teachers, and people in need.“Wanted to build something with Ai that could give back..”
- hqmap — Maps and lists the headquarters locations of companies in stock market indices, grouped by subdivision, city and country.“Built a site that shows headquarters of companies that are part of different stock market indices”