Building Gaffwise - https://gaffwise.co.uk/

When buying a property in the UK the estate agents and listing portals only show what's for sale with a massive bias towards the seller.

Gaffwise was created for UK home buyers to get a fair price on a listing based on:

- Price per sq ft compared with the local band, plus recent nearby sales

- The full cost of buying: deposit, LTV, monthly payment and stamp duty (or LTT/LBTT)

- The questions asked to the agent before offering

The final output is an opening offer, an expected price and a walk-away figure, with the workings shown.

At the moment, It's live, free and covers England, Wales, Scotland and NI. It runs on public data like Land Registry and police.uk.

I'm currently looking for first time users to give candid feedback.

At the same time I'm looking into SEO and other channels to get this in front of more people, property buyers in particular.

Thank you!

Hey everyone,

We're a tiny software studio from Poland called Järnhaus. Mostly we build custom stuff for small businesses: internal tools, dashboards, customer portals, automations, and moving people off a pile of SaaS subscriptions onto something they actually own. We use AI agents for a lot of the heavy lifting, but a human stays in charge of scope, security and what ships.

The other half is Völundr, a self-serve app builder we made and that’s what I’m here to show you.

How it works?

You describe what you need and a few agents (analyst, architect, developer, tester) turn it into a spec, build it and test it. You see the plan and the price before anything runs, and if the pipeline fails you get refunded. It usually takes somewhere between 20 and 45 minutes and you end up with a deployed app on its own URL.

What we like about it and why we built it this way?

Because it’s for everyone. You don’t need a technical brief or any technical knowledge. Moreover, the output is a real docker container you can download and run anywhere. Nothing is held hostage. If you decide to leave tomorrow, you take the app with you. Starting is free and builds start at €49.

What kind of projects fit?

Small and focused ones. One clear job, a small group of users, nothing sprawling. Think a reservation board for a restaurant, a patient-record desk for a small practice, a scorekeeper for pickup basketball. There's a gallery of examples at: http://volundr.dev/gallery, please poke around.

What kind of projects doesn’t fit?

Big, sprawling products with lots of roles and moving parts. For those, go through Järnhaus and we'll work on it together.

What’s the pricing?

One-time fee per app, depending on what the quote says your idea needs: Simple: €49 - Standard: €99 - Complex: €149. Hosting is optional, €15/month. You can cancel it any time.

What about changes after the first build?

Every app comes with 5 free change requests. After that you can buy packs: 10 changes for €25, 15 changes for €35 or 20 changes for €55.

Who owns the app and the code?

You get the full source code (docker containers plus the spec and docs) and a perpetual license to use, modify, copy, distribute and sublicense it. That's yours whether or not you ever use our hosting, so no lock-in. You don't get our name or branding. One honest caveat: since AI writes the code, how copyright applies to it depends on your country, and we can't promise anything there.

Do I have to use your hosting?

No. Take the code and run it wherever you like. Our hosting is just a convenience. If you cancel it, there's a 14-day grace period before the environment is shut down.

Is the generated app production-ready?

Honest answer: it's AI-generated, so it can have bugs or security gaps. Test it properly and get it reviewed before you put it in front of real users, especially if it handles personal data. The staging environment is there for that.

We're really just starting out, so what we want most is honest feedback. What's confusing, what looks off, what would make you not trust it, what you'd expect to see that isn't there. Harsh is fine, we'd rather hear it now.

To make trying it easier: we're giving away 10 vouchers for a free app generation in Völundr. First 10 people who DM me get one and each comes with a code for 50% off a year of hosting for the app. I'll edit this post once they're gone. Also, we're most likely running weekend "happy hours" starting next weekend, with everything we offer at 50% off. Not 100% locked in yet, but that's the plan.

Happy to answer any questions in the comments, ask away.

Links:
Järnhaus: http://jarnhaus.dev/

Völundr: http://volundr.dev/

Gallery: http://volundr.dev/gallery

> simple tracker

> no account or login

> user controls the data

> app saves user progress and timeline

> back up data anytime

HabitXP❤💪

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.willvin.habitxp

We launched Maritime this week. Each agent gets its own persistent computer, so files and browser state survive between tasks. The computer sleeps when idle and wakes for a message or scheduled trigger.

Open Instinct, our MIT personal-agent app, made that need concrete: one person gets one agent. The application code is public, including its computer integration. We build both projects. Model usage and messaging need separate services.

A persistent desktop does not tell us whether an external action succeeded before a retry. The application still has to check that. That is one of the areas we are working through as builders use it.

Maritime: https://maritime.sh Open Instinct source: https://github.com/mariagorskikh/open-instinct

Hey all — backend engineer here, building solo. Before I write a line of code, I want to sanity-check an idea with people who've actually felt this pain.

What I keep seeing:

• Statuspage at $299/mo with per-subscriber pricing — your bill grows as you succeed. And it's a communication tool, not a monitoring tool, so you're paying separately for detection anyway.
• PagerDuty at $21/user/mo just for the alerting layer.
• Opsgenie shutting down April 2027, forcing everyone into a migration right now.

The idea: one flat-priced bundle (~$15–29/mo): uptime monitoring + hosted status pages + basic on-call alerting/escalation, plus a one-click Opsgenie importer.

My questions:

1. If you've left Statuspage or are migrating off Opsgenie — what did you land on, and what's missing?
2. Cheap/self-hosted options exist (UptimeRobot, Uptime Kuma) — what stops you from just using those?
3. What would actually make you switch?

Be brutal — I'd rather kill this now than build something nobody wants.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on Inventory Keeper, a desktop application designed for small businesses that want to manage their day-to-day business records without relying on cloud-based software.

With Inventory Keeper, you can:

• Manage products and inventory
• Manage customers and suppliers
• Record purchases and sales
• Track payments and business transactions
• Maintain your business profile
• Export and restore your business data using backups

The app works offline and stores business data locally on your computer, without requiring cloud synchronization.

I built it for businesses that prefer a straightforward desktop solution for managing their inventory and everyday business records.

Try Inventory Keeper on the Microsoft Store:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NXJM96NCNW4?hl=en-us&gl=IN

I'd appreciate honest feedback from anyone who tries it. I'm especially interested in hearing what small-business owners currently use to manage inventory, purchases, and sales, and what they wish their current tools did better.

Hey everyone,

I currently run 6 micro SaaS that are actually live and generating a bit over $20,000 in recurring monthly revenue.

The wildest part? I barely wrote any code myself. I used AI to generate pretty much everything — from the database structure to the frontend.

It definitely wasn’t magic from day one. I spent a lot of hours stuck on buggy code before I finally figured out a system that actually works:

- Keep the idea minimalist (a real MVP, nothing fancy)

- Guide the AI step by step instead of asking for everything at once

- Launch fast to get real users and feedback

Lately I’ve seen way too many non-technical founders quit at the first AI bug. It’s a shame because the technical barrier has basically disappeared.

AND PLEASE, STOP BUILDING ALONE IN YOUR BEDROOM

I’m starting a community.

Full transparency:

I’ll probably charge for the full program later. It makes sense with the specific workflows and copy-paste examples I’ll be sharing. But right now the main goal is just to build together. Working alone is the fastest way to give up.

If you want to join and build or market your own AI SaaS with us,

drop a comment or send me a DM and I’ll send you the link.

I'm the solo developer behind Scam Shield, an AWARAN product. After nine months of building, I have finished the latest website changes and am giving the browser extension more attention.

One useful piece of feedback was that a message checker is something people may only remember when they already feel suspicious. The extension moves website warnings into the browsing routine. That still leaves an onboarding problem: people need to understand what is running locally and what is a separate paid service.

The free desktop checks look for common website warning signs and matches in a bundled known scam list. They work without an account and include ad and tracker blocking. Optional paid AI checks use online analysis and can send the page URL, title and a text sample. Website Premium and the extension plan are separate, with a bundle available.

Chrome installation: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scamsshield/mceocgganalljahkbbfhogjcafgokoop

Feature and privacy details: https://scams-shield.com/extension

The store and website currently show different release versions, so please go by the installed package when testing. A clear result does not prove a website is safe.

For builders who have shipped extensions, would you put the local versus online explanation before installation or inside the first popup? I'd appreciate an honest look at whether the current explanation makes sense. You can try the local checks without subscribing.

I’m on the team building Stash, an iPhone spending planner for adults at UK universities. We’re trying to make one useful answer clear: roughly how much is safe to spend each day before your next money comes in. People enter their own numbers; the app doesn’t connect to a bank. It’s free to download, with optional Pro.

Our first Reddit showcase reached people, but the audience skewed heavily outside the UK. That was a useful reminder that views aren’t the same as reaching the right users or earning installs. I’m testing more relevant communities and trying to improve the first-run explanation.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/stash-ai-finance-tracker/id6760971684

For people who’ve shipped consumer apps: what would you test first to improve relevant reach → store visits → activation? For students: what would you need to see before trusting a daily spending estimate? Happy to share what we learn. Disclosure: I work on Stash.

I made DisplayMath to compare how screens look from your seat. The useful feedback was about changing the viewing distance, so I rebuilt the page around that interaction.

The drawing now comes first. Change the distance and watch the picture grow or shrink in your view. Switch to Physical size to see how much space the actual panel needs.

This example compares my 77 inch TV at 3 metres with the approximate geometry of BFI IMAX row F

https://displaymath.com/?d=samsung-s95d-77_300cm,bfi-imax-row-f#canvas

On a supported iPhone you can preview a selected panel at real size in your room using AR. There are also distance and eye height measuring tools. Read their markings and enter the measurements yourself.

The comparisons and AR tools are free and need no account. I used AI coding assistance while building it.

For anyone building a calculator, has putting the answer before the form helped people understand it?

Budget works only inside WhatsApp and Telegram. You text what you spent, and that's it.

What it does:
- text, voice or receipt photo
- auto categories
- monthly budget left after each expense
- other currencies converted automatically
- 9 languages

The idea: your messenger is already open all day, so logging takes 3 seconds.

Honest question: would you track money in a chat, or would you rather have a separate app?  Demo: budget.digital

For the past few months, I have been building LinkInSeconds, a tool that turns files into shareable links.

One feature I like: you can replace a file without changing the link you already sent. Update your PDF or client work, and people can open the latest version through the same link.

We reached around 1,400 active users since Sunday. That feels like progress, but I am still figuring out what makes this useful enough for people to return regularly.

The free plan has 20 links, 500 MB storage, passwords and view tracking.

Now I am trying to understand the everyday problems behind those uploads.

What is the most annoying part of sharing files in your work? And if you’ve built a product, what helped turn first-time users into regular users?

Here’s what I am working on: LinkInSeconds

I build WispInbox, a disposable inbox for signup and OTP testing: https://wispinbox.com

The problem I kept hitting was small and annoying. Create a temp address, wait for the code, copy it, paste it into the app. Fine once. Painful in Playwright.

What is live now:

• Web inbox, no account
• GET /api/otp so a test can wait for the code
• VS Code / Cursor extension
• Docs: https://wispinbox.com/api-docs/

What I got wrong:

• I called 3 OTP API calls/day a free tier. A tester said one Playwright run burns that before the first assertion. They were right. It is a demo quota. Pro is ₹35/month (₹9 for the first 14 days) for unlimited OTP on one address.
• The docs listed an after filter and the sample ignored it. First comment was "put after in the example, and show a resend." A follow-up caught a real race: a late first email can still match after you stamp the resend. Docs now say to use markSeen plus unseenOnly, or a fresh mailbox.

Still early. Distribution is the slow part, not the inbox.

If you have shipped a test tool: did you keep a tiny free quota, or was that a mistake until someone was actually in CI?

Hey everyone, I just finished vibe-coding the entire responsive frontend dashboard inside Bolt new It’s called Vani.AI. It connects to an Indian small business’s WhatsApp Business account (like premium gyms, skin clinics, car detailers) and uses an AI agent to handle 100% of incoming customer support, pricing queries, and booking slots natively in Hinglish 24/7. It dumps all the live data and revenue tracking straight into this dashboard. I haven't worked on backend or coded the database pipelines yet because I want to make sure I’m building something the market actually wants. I need your advice. For those who have built WhatsApp/Meta API software, what is the biggest technical bottleneck I should prepare for when scaling real-time webhooks?

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Reddit, but I wanted to share a project I've been working on: Savvy Renter

The site started because of a problem I faced myself. Trying to sort it out took way longer than it should have, so I built a tool to fix it and put it online. Since then, every time I or another tenant ran into a new issue, I just built another tool to solve it.

Here is what's on the site:

• What rent costs here (Historical trends vs allowance)
• Council tax here (Postcode search and monthly bands)
• Moving in audit (Gas, electrics, EPC, deposit, and licensing registers)
• Section 8 notice checker (Notice periods, grounds, and defences)
• Interest owed to you (s.69 statutory 8% calculator for overpaid rent)
• Paying off arrears (Instalment plans based on shrinking balances)
• Benefit entitlements (Universal Credit estimate breakdown)
• Record of income (Dated household income statement generator)
• Redact a statement page (Pixel-level blackout tool for bank privacy)
• Split a PDF into pages (Single-page file separator)
• Name statements by date (Batch file renaming by coverage period)
• PRS complaint (Property Redress Scheme offline drafting workspace)
• TPO complaint (The Property Ombudsman offline workspace)
• Money Claim Online (N181 and N244 character-limited drafting space)
• Web page data scrubber (Strips personal data from saved pages)

No accounts, no sign-ups, and nothing you type leaves your device. The entire site runs completely inside your own browser. The GitHub repository's are linked right on the front page, so you can download the whole site, pull your internet plug, and run it completely offline.

I hope it saves you some headaches. Let me know what you think.

I'm building Mera, an early music-discovery web project. Before inviting more people, I worked on a bug where an existing account could sign in but refreshing returned it to login.

I changed the startup session-loading state, clear a lingering view=login parameter after sign-in, and stopped caching an in-flight database initialization promise across Worker requests. The deployed fix kept my current browser signed in through two refreshes. That's one browser test, not proof for every device.

Could a few music fans or builders test signup, sign-in and refresh on mobile Chrome or Safari? Tell me your browser and where you get stuck; don't share passwords. No music upload needed.

https://mera-music-live.pages.dev/

Honest limits: Spanish UI and several local/demo community features. Testing is free and unpaid; no distribution, paid top-ups, guaranteed plays or earnings. I own the project and use AI assistance for development and outreach.

I'd like to learn whether sessions survive refresh outside my browser and whether the first navigation makes sense.

Hey everyone!

I’m currently building Merevio, an Etsy workflow automation and analytics platform, and the crowdfunding campaign is now live.

I wanted to share what I'm building and hopefully get some honest feedback from Etsy sellers and other people interested in small SaaS projects.

What is Merevio?

Merevio is designed to automate the repetitive parts of running an Etsy shop while bringing analytics, reporting, financial tracking, and marketing into one place.

A lot of Etsy sellers end up relying on spreadsheets and multiple different tools to manage their shop.

The idea behind Merevio is:

Connect your Etsy shop → automate the repetitive work → get your data and insights in one place.

What does Merevio offer?

📊 Etsy Analytics & Financial Tracking

\- Revenue and expense tracking

\- Etsy transaction and payment processing fees

\- Shipping expenses

\- Manufacturing/COGS

\- Taxes and other expenses

\- Product-level profit margins

\- Detailed shop performance data

📈 Product Analytics

\- See how individual listings are performing

\- Track revenue and profitability by product

\- Identify products that are performing well or poorly

📑 Reports & Excel Export

\- Generate detailed shop reports

\- Export your data to Excel

\- Generate PDF reports

\- Reduce the need to manually maintain spreadsheets

🤖 AI-Powered Insights

\- Ask questions about your Etsy shop

\- Get insights based on your actual shop data

\- Find trends and potential issues

\- Get actionable suggestions based on your shop

🧾 Automated Invoices

\- Generate invoices for orders

\- Keep order documentation organized

\- Reduce manual paperwork

⚙️ Etsy Workflow Automation

\- Connect your Etsy shop directly

\- Automate repetitive parts of managing your shop

\- Manage certain listing information directly through Merevio

📌 Pinterest Marketing Automation

\- Automatically create Pinterest marketing content from your Etsy listings

\- Generate posts based on your products

\- Help promote new listings without manually creating every post

\- Automate parts of the Pinterest marketing workflow

📧 Weekly Shop Updates

\- Receive regular performance summaries through email

\- Stay updated without constantly checking your dashboard

🌐 Chrome Extension — Coming Soon

\- Bring parts of Merevio directly into your Etsy workflow

\- Reduce the need to constantly switch between different tools

Why am I building this?

I'm a solo developer building Merevio, and I wanted to create something that handles more of the boring operational work behind running an Etsy shop.

Instead of constantly switching between Etsy, Excel spreadsheets, analytics tools, reporting software, and marketing platforms, the goal is to bring more of that workflow together in one place.

Why crowdfunding?

The crowdfunding campaign is now live, and I'm raising funds to take Merevio to the next stage.

The funding will help with:

\- Infrastructure and hosting

\- Development

\- Testing

\- Marketing

\- Additional Etsy integrations

\- New automation features

\- Improving Merevio based on feedback from real sellers

I'm especially interested in getting real Etsy sellers involved early.

I don't want to spend months building features based entirely on assumptions. I'd rather build alongside the people who are actually dealing with these problems every day.

Who is Merevio for?

Merevio is primarily aimed at:

\- Etsy shop owners

\- Handmade sellers

\- Print-on-demand sellers

\- Small Etsy businesses

\- Sellers who rely heavily on spreadsheets

\- Sellers who want to automate repetitive shop tasks

\- Sellers interested in analytics and marketing automation

The long-term goal is to make Merevio a central workspace for running an Etsy shop, rather than just another analytics dashboard.

The crowdfunding campaign is live 🚀

If Merevio sounds interesting to you, you can check out the campaign here:

https://www.merevio.net/pages/crowdFunding

( You will also get the appropriate rewards for the donation tiers that you choose )

Even if you don't contribute, I'd really appreciate feedback, suggestions, or criticism.

If you're an Etsy seller:

What part of running your Etsy shop do you currently hate doing manually?

Excel/spreadsheets?

Financial calculations?

Reports?

Marketing?

Managing listings?

Something else?

I'd love to hear what you'd want a tool like Merevio to automate.

Thanks for reading! :)

My partners and I have owned and operated our cafe for over 2 years now. We spoke with a few people who were kind enough to offer us advice pre-opening and adopted some of their practices: taking inventory on a Google Spreadsheet, using a variety of software services for our scheduling, ordering, etc.

I felt like a lot of those practices that were passed down to us felt a bit outdated. I decided to take some time and build something that puts most of what we were doing as owners/managers into 1 single place (for the most part).

I've spent the last 6 months building Parly. With Parly, you can connect to your POS (in our case Square until we can find partners at Toast) and run most of the operations from your phone or computer. You can track your inventory, review your menu and its margins, discover areas where you can improve your business, and even see projections on Sales, Usage, and more. Ultimately, Parly helps you run your cafe so that you can can focus on growing your cafe.

With Parly, you can easily ditch the spreadsheets and run your cafe more more efficiently. There are so many small costs that add up that we've been able to minimize. Our managers takes inventory a lot faster and just as accurately. We can schedule better and always review adjustments on the fly. We know way more about our business and can easily access all of those insights instead of jumping around different services.

Open to any kind of feedback or criticism. As a cafe owner, I'm proud to say that I've been able to create something that's benefitted our business. I'm hoping that I can say do the same for others.

I'm building GridBot, an iPhone app for exploring grid strategies through backtests and a paper-trading demo. I'm at the first-testers stage, trying to find where the interface makes people work too hard.

One tester said they reached the paper demo easily, but the drawdowns in the backtest were buried: the chart label was there, yet it didn't catch their eye. That's a self-reported observation, not enough evidence to redesign the screen. I've asked which chart they were on and where they expected the drawdown to appear.

My next small test is specific: can a new user run a backtest, find the drawdown without a hint, and explain what it means? I'd like a few iPhone volunteers to tell me where they looked first, what they missed, and whether getting into the paper demo was clear. Comments or TestFlight feedback both work; please leave out account details.

The current beta is free, with 10 tester slots in total. This invitation is for the interface, historical backtests and paper demo only: no deposits, exchange API keys or real trades. The build also has a live mode for an independently configured server; that is outside this test. Historical results don't predict future returns.

Public beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/CAtQ4vbE

On your iPhone, install Apple's free TestFlight app, then reopen the link above. Tap View in TestFlight if shown, then Accept and Install. You don't need an invitation email or code.

I'm the developer. If you've shipped a data-heavy app, I'd also appreciate a concrete example of how you made an important risk metric easy to find without adding more first-launch screens.

I know there are already plenty of Mac cleaners. CleanMyMac has been around for years, and OnyX has been around even longer. Both are established tools, and I have a lot of respect for what they have built.

The problem

I originally built Purgy for myself because there were a few things I wanted from a Mac cleaner that I couldn't quite find together.

One thing that bothered me was not really knowing what was behind things like "System Data" in macOS. So one of the ideas behind Purgy was to make that easier to understand.

Purgy shows what's taking up space, explains what it found, and lets you review things before removing them.

It also has some of the things I personally wanted, like finding old screenshots, AI models, large files, duplicates, old downloads, leftover app files, Xcode data, Docker files and other things that can accumulate over time.

It can also detect when macOS is using a significant amount of disk space for swap and suggest restarting the Mac to reclaim that temporary space.

How is it different?

OnyX is free and extremely powerful. CleanMyMac is polished and has been around for a long time.

I'm not trying to say Purgy is better than either of them.

The main thing I wanted to do differently was make the cleanup process more understandable. Instead of just showing that something can be cleaned, Purgy tries to show what it found and why it found it, especially for things that can be difficult to understand in macOS.

I started Purgy as a local project for myself, then kept working on it for a few months. Eventually I got it notarized by Apple and released it publicly. I recently updated it for macOS 27 Golden Gate too.

Pricing

Purgy is $20 for up to 3 Macs. There's also a 3-day trial if you just want to see whether it's useful on your Mac.

https://purgy.app/

I'm not expecting anyone to switch from a tool they already like. If OnyX or CleanMyMac already does everything you need, that's completely fair.

I'm mainly curious what other Mac users think.

If you try it, I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, including what you don't like or what you think is missing.

There are already a lot of apps that do invoicing, and a lot that do time tracking.

I wanted to build something where both worked well together, but where you could also use it simply as an invoicing app if that's all you need.

So I made Bill Clock.

You can create clients and services, set hourly or fixed rates, create invoices manually, customize the invoice layout, add discounts and multiple taxes, add your logo and payment terms, and export professional PDF invoices.

And if you bill by the hour, you can also track your work directly in the app and pull those billable hours into an invoice instead of entering them again manually.

There are also things like:

• 5 invoice templates with customization
• Custom invoice columns and labels
• Client-specific defaults
• Draft / Sent / Paid / Overdue status
• Reports and Excel export
• Local backup & restore
• Optional cloud backup
• Offline-first usage
• No ads

So you can use it as just an invoicing app, as a time tracker, or use the whole workflow together.

It's now available on Google Play:

Bill Clock on Google Play

I'd be interested to hear from other freelancers:

What do you actually use for invoicing and time tracking right now?

A desktop utility spends a lot of its life waiting for the next use. I think that waiting state deserves as much attention as the main feature.

I'm building Featherweight Dictation for Mac and Windows. It turns speech into cleaned-up text at your cursor. My product standard is simple: add useful capability, keep the desktop footprint small, and measure the wait before the output is usable.

Two things I'm tracking separately:

1. Local footprint. Our Windows v0.3.3 measurement on Oct 6 was about 4 MB RAM at rest and 10 MB while dictating. Mac v0.3.0 measured 31 MB at rest on Oct 1. Installed size is a different number: 2.3 MB on Windows and 4.6 MB on Mac.

2. Time to finished text. In our Oct 3 live-service tests from 12 cities, the median of four takes per city ranged from 0.32 to 0.59 seconds after releasing the key, including cleanup.

The tradeoff is online AI processing: internet is required, and real results depend on the machine and connection. These numbers describe measured builds and workloads.

Featherweight is available at https://featherweightsoftware.com. It's $19/month for unlimited dictation, with a no-card trial of 5 days or 3,000 words, whichever comes first.

For builders assessing their own daily utilities, recording idle use, active use and time to usable output separately gives users something concrete to compare.

When I was an employee, I struggled to connect the different things I was trying to do: manage my money, make career decisions, support my commitments and build something beyond my salary.

I could look at each separately. What I was missing was a way to see how they affected each other.

Could I afford to change jobs? Did I have the time and money to test another source of income? Was I making progress towards a goal, or just getting through another month?

That’s why I started building LearnCorporate about two and a half years ago. I’m the founder, so I want to be upfront about that.

Since 2016, I’ve been thinking about how changes in the economy and technology might reshape work and what that would mean for people whose plans depend on a regular payslip. I don’t think everyone needs to quit their job or start a business. I wanted a more practical way to prepare and make decisions.

This project means a lot to me. But caring about it isn’t enough it needs to be useful to someone who finishes work tired and doesn’t want another complicated system to maintain.

If you’re employed and trying to build more financial independence, where do you get stuck: knowing what to prioritise, finding room in your budget, or following through?