Thomas Clinard | Expensei

Building Expensei (ios + Android)
A simple 50/30/20 budgeting app
EN/JP

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@DanGW_92 What are ya building mate?

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@jnananaa Amazing stuff!!!!

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@yabsssai @JackRob357741 main ideas: clickable convo history instead of slash commands in terminal. personas as unique composable model stacks (opus planner, deepseek worker, codex critic). dispatch best persona for the job to the repo. visual skills lib. 1-click GitHub+obsidian cnct

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

saw @JackRob357741 YouTube video on his HermesOS dashboard. Was inspired to build my own. Backend isn’t wired yet but the vision is there - make Hermes-use more visual and user-friendly. Any interest in this open sourced?

#buildinpublic #opensource #claude

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@alexwtlf When my budgeting app clears 100 MRR I’ll hit ya up

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

200 days mostly fixing bugs 🐛 I wrote the day before #Consistency 🫡

I see other folks releasing apps left and right. I’ve been at it almost a year and my one sole app Expensei is still not quite at beta, let alone production. What’s the secret? 😭

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@jgravelle1963 @poborojo Cheers! Any tips? I’ve started making separate docs outlining repo patterns so your MCP can check the docs and get the info much cheaper than reading files. You use a similar system or?

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@poborojo @jgravelle1963 How long did it take you to get all set up?

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@jgravelle1963 @poborojo This sounds irresistible. Think I will make the jump here very soon. The Claude Opus limits are insane these days in normie mode

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@sickdotdev https://t.co/YWpcFtwv2X

See ya there 😊

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@jogicodes I’m in similar shoes man. But in Tokyo and with a 1 year old. Savings keep draining but app is finally almost there. Hope to keep in touch while we march down this unique path

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@jnananaa fellow asian 🤝 what flavor are you?
half japan half USA type here
btw just downloaded sonos, what a useful idea😊will def be using it soon
ive been working on my budgeting app almost a year. i need inspiration from builders, lets connect

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@denicmarko Let a brother in

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@jnananaa I tell myself our ancestors died in ditches in wars for bankers so I should toughen up and keep pushing 😅

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Any markdown pros know if it’s possible to get my text vertically center aligned with my app icon? It looks clean on mobile Github though 😍

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@BaDahBoomski 5.3 xtra high reasoning? To me if I have easy tasks I give them to Cursor Composer 1.5 and he works so beautifully fast. Codex for slightly more complex bc the usage/tokens is nice. For the most complex I’m saving for daddy Opus4.6. How’s Gemini??

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@JIMMYEDGAR Yeah please bruh

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@Cobratate And it has the ability to ACT whereas a GPT/Claude is limited. So you can just ask him in chat to book that restaurant you walked by and make it happen. Yeah it ain’t for everyone but it can reduce friction amd be convenient

[Thomas Clinard | Expensei @TomCat415]

@Cobratate It’s more about replacing app-hopping. Ask about the ramen shop you walked by. Snap a street sign and translate it. Get instant local recommendations. One convo with your Telegram-linked OpenClaw instead of Maps, Translate, and 6 blog posts.