SMRTR ProgrammingOct 6, 2025Hacker News

While everyone builds AI apps, my spreadsheet reached 2,300 users

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While the tech world builds complex AI applications, a simple personal finance spreadsheet tool has quietly grown to 2,381 users by solving a basic problem: more than 60% of adults don't know their previous month's spending. Write-It-Down.com offers a one-time $5 Google Sheets-based finance tracker that lets users categorize income and expenses, record transactions, and view spending patterns. The tool avoids monthly subscription fees, complex interfaces, and data privacy concerns that plague other finance apps, giving users permanent ownership of their financial data in their own Google Drive.

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