Festus Obi

DevOps | Cloud Engineer

Building consumer apps for fun

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

@lucaspatiri_ UGC

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

Unpopular opinion about budget trackers:

Receipt scanning in budget apps is overrated.

Everyone wants it. Almost nobody uses it consistently and lets not even talk about the multiple types of receipts you have to take into account, the multiple currencies, multiple languages.

Why? Typing "$47 groceries" takes 3 seconds.

Scanning takes:
- Open camera
- Position receipt
- Wait for OCR
- Fix mistakes
- Save

If people are paying for it, then the expectation is that everything works.

For my app - Fundly, I made manual entry on purpose.

Thoughts? 🤔

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

Budget trackers are saturated but thats not enough excuse for me to skip giving it a better feel.

Built real-time budget sharing into Fundly.

Scenario: Wife adds a grocery run on her phone, it shows up on partner's phone before she's even left the store. No refresh. No sync button. It just… works.

TestFlight link: https://t.co/xkucqD8iOU

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I built a SaaS product that i am no longer interested in pushing further with. All's done but it was not distributed at all. I've heard its possible to sell products pre-revenue but i'm wondering how that works, what platforms that can be done and if anyone has an experience with this. #buildinpublic

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

Fundly tech stack:

1. Backend: Supabase (PostgreSQL + realtime + auth)
2. Frontend: SwiftUI (native iOS)
3. Storage: Supabase Storage
4. Auth: Biometric + email

Total monthly cost: ~$25
Setup time: 2 days 2026 is wild.

You can build production apps on a coffee budget.

#indiedev #buildinpublic

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

@pavelhegler 😂 don’t give me ideas… billing per argument might be even more profitable

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

Real conversation in our house:

“Did you pay the bill?”
“Wasn’t that you?”
opens app
still confused

We were both tracking money… just separately.
That’s when I realized — most budget apps aren’t built for couples.

Working on fixing that 👀

#indiedev #buildinpublic

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

Budgeting apps are broken for couples.

You either:
• pay twice
• manage spreadsheets
• or constantly remind each other
None of it works.
So I built Fundly in 6 weeks.
Real-time. Shared. Simple.

TestFlight link 🚀 => https://t.co/2zr4FZWNS9

#buildinpublic

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

Why I'm Teaching Myself to Build with AI (And You Should Too)
https://t.co/6nppNsZluS

[Paul Mit @pmitu]

Most "tech founders" are just hiding in the code to avoid sales and marketing

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

Building a ticketing platform in 2026 wasn't the plan 😅

Pausing LeadsInsight (my AI Lead Generation app) for a week or two because I stumbled into distribution: 8-10 local event organizers (hundreds of tickets/month) won't stop complaining about basic features missing from existing platforms. Some don't even have proper dashboards for organizers

So naturally, I started vibe coding the entire v1 last weekend and will roll it out this month.

The play: use local ticketing revenue to bootstrap the AI leads app + cover ad spend. Not the sexiest pivot but the math works.

Also stumbled into a few ways AI can actually breathe life into this space - that's for later when I have time.

For now, let me grab this revenue quick to fund the major thing

[fidexCode @fidexcode]

Frontend devs are cooked

AI has taken your jobs

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

Building an AI-powered lead generation tool from Poland with 3 other co-founders. In this video, I break down what LeadsInsight actually does and who we're building it for.

https://t.co/ebA0hXRjyb

We're still early — building nights and weekends while working full-time jobs.

🚀 Join the waitlist: https://t.co/NtboQbfI0h

If you're in B2B sales and tired of spending hours researching leads, this one's for you.

#buildinpublic #startup #saas #leadgeneration #ai #poland #indiehacker

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

@foundr Spoke to me. Time to up the momentum

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

@alexcooldev this is what separates folks with experience and those who just know how to speak & write english language 😀

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

@manojdotdev Golang

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

@1Umairshaikh i dont think it's possible to separate 1&3 anymore. 🤔

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

@pmitu tbh i dont know how to use vscode anymore, so i'd say claude code & cursor 😀

[Festus Obi @devops_addict]

The waitlist is live but I have no idea how to get people on it. 😲

i spent sometime on the coming-soon page for our AI marketing tool (https://t.co/fJS7j59zk0). Finally hit publish. Shared it everywhere possible. Felt good for about 10 minutes.

Then nothing.
Turns out building the thing is the easy part. Getting strangers to care is completely different. 😃

So now we're just trying stuff. Posting here. Lurking in communities. Telling anyone who will listen without being the annoying startup guy.

12 signups so far. Most are friends. A few aren't. Those few feel like progress.

Anyway, back to figuring out distribution.

https://t.co/fJS7j59zk0