Charen

Product builder, designer and engineer. Building cool stuff @makenlabs. Leading design @CyberQP. Follow along to try stuff I build in public & DM for consulting

[Charen @charen92]

@Simonij_dk One shift that stuck with me: I used to focus on showing people their past expenses and hoping awareness would create change.

Now I'm building around future spend forecasting, so people can rethink small decisions before the money leaves + a experimental habits features.

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Back on X.

Design engineer in Waterloo, shipping HabitCents and writing about craft, product, and building in public.

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@Simonij_dk Changes and pivots I made to product and design decisions were a lot. First, it's a mindset change; then the design and product changes followed

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@tirthaexe India has Modi!

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@vedanthk_ Starting similar journey. All the best to your builder journey

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@I_am_oil_oil So cool. Thanks for sharing

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@AIAdsApps Claude

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@NoahShreve DM

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@vitaliidodonov PDF

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@md_deepesh Propaganda 😀

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@senthilnayagam A long read but I learnt a lot! Thanks for sharing

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@okkshitij Available to test?

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@niccruzpatane And car owners get paid or have some incentives

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Troubling

[Denislav Jeliazkov @DenisJeliazkov]

Every designer needs 3 libraries:

1. UI Reference Library: apps, patterns, screenshots

2. Decision Library: what worked, what didn’t, & why

3. System Library: components you can drag into any new project

Your brain becomes 10x faster when you stop redesigning solved problems.

[Charen @charen92]

@jacobosssss Love this analogy and I am going to steel it 😀

Thats exactly it. I can forensically analyze my spending all day, doesn’t stop me from doing it again.

Have you tried anything that actually closed that gap? would like to hear what worked / didn’t

[Charen @charen92]

Why am I sharing this publicly?

1. Accountability (can't quit if people are watching)
2. Find people to interview
3. Learn from others who've tried this
4. Build an audience for eventual product

#buildinpublic #indiehackers #cursor #AI #projects #PersonalFinance

[Charen @charen92]

Over the next 30 days I'm:
- Interviewing 20+ people about spending habits
- Building prototypes with Cursor/AI tools
- Sharing everything I learn
- Testing if this is worth building

Following along? Drop a 👋 below

#buildinpublic #indiehackers