I’ve decided to build my own personal finance manager. I don’t usually have a personal itch worth scratching, but AI coding tools have made building things so much cheaper that motivation, not skill, is now the real bottleneck. This time I have one.
The gap
I used MoneyBrilliant for years until it was sold to ANZ. Since then I’ve used Frollo, but it’s mobile-only, and I want a web app — something I can keep open in a tab, I really just don’t like using a mobile device for anything significant. Nothing on the market quite fits.
The plan
- Cheap to run. It’s a tool for one person, not a business.
- Web-based. No app, just a browser tab.
- Built with Claude. Partly practical, partly an experiment in how far AI-assisted solo building can go for something I’ll actually rely on daily.
- AWS hosted. My default is AWS, so that’s where this will be hosted. Terraform for infrastructure (of course)
- Vue frontend. I like Vue, so that’s the front end. Also, Claude is better at Front End than I am, so this should work quite well
- .Net / Lambda backen. I also likve .Net and Lambda, so that’s an easy choice.
Open source?
Maybe. I like the idea, but I haven’t worked through what maintaining it for other people would actually involve. Decision for later.
More updates as I build.
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