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Subscription economics, privacy-first engineering, and the occasional honest update from the maker. No marketing fluff, no engagement bait.

📓 Coming soon The blog is still warming up. The first posts will land here in the coming weeks — on what we shipped, what we learned, and what we decided not to build. No email signup required to read; just check back or follow the link at the bottom.

Planned topics

How we built end-to-end encrypted sync in a 16-line file

Storing user data on Google Drive without us — or Google — being able to read it. The math, the gotchas (PBKDF2 250k → 600k migration), and why the master password lives only in memory.

The €237 you didn't notice you were paying

What happens when you actually list every recurring charge. A pattern from 50+ informal audits: it's never the big ones that hurt.

Why we don't connect to your bank

Plaid / Tink / GoCardless all want a piece of your transaction stream. The privacy-first alternative — and why "manual entry" is less painful than it sounds.

Translating one app into 28 languages, alone

The tooling, the testing harness, and the time we accidentally shipped Vietnamese words inside the Indonesian build.

Why every freelancer should track business subs

Adobe CC, ChatGPT Plus, GitHub Copilot, your hosting bill — keeping them organized matters. How the Business Expense Report turns a Friday-night Excel slog into a one-click PDF summary.

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