app in 20 Hours 🤯
I built an app that turns your messy spending into something you actually understand. It's called Nolvi, and it's live on the App Store right now. But before I push it everywhere, I want a small group of Android users to break it first 👇
Your salary probably doesn’t disappear because of one massive purchase.
It disappears through dozens of small expenses you barely remember.
A coffee here.
A delivery order there.
A subscription you forgot to cancel.
A random purchase that felt too small to matter.
The problem isn’t that people don’t want to track their money.
The problem is that most finance apps turn tracking into another daily chore.
You use them for a week, get bored, and stop.
That’s the problem I’m trying to solve with Nolvi.
You can speak an expense, scan a receipt, enter it manually, or turn a supported bank message into an organized transaction.
Then Nolvi shows you where your money went, which budgets you exceeded, what subscriptions are coming, and whether you’re moving toward your goals.
What stops you from tracking your money consistently?
Do you forget, find it boring, or simply avoid looking at the numbers?
I built the first working version of a personal finance app in under 20 hours.
But launching it took me more than a month.
Building fast was the easy part.
This is the story of Nolvi 👇
Nolvi started with a simple question:
Why should logging an $8 expense require opening a spreadsheet or filling out a long form?
I wanted logging an expense to be faster than forgetting it.
So Nolvi lets you add transactions in four ways:
• Bank messages
• Voice
• Camera
• Manual entry
Then it organizes everything and shows you where your money is going.
I used AI and vibe coding to turn the idea into a working product in under 20 hours.
But that was only the first version.
It was not yet a product people could trust with their financial data.
Then the real work started:
Testing.
Bug fixes.
Subscriptions.
Languages.
Arabic support.
Notifications.
Budgets.
And hundreds of details nobody sees.
From today, I’m building Nolvi in public.
I’ll share the downloads, trials, subscriptions, mistakes, and decisions.
The first goal: 100 paying users.
Follow the journey and try Nolvi through the link in the first reply.
The full cost:
�� 5 minutes to generate
→ $19 in credits
→ 1 person
→ 0 equipment
The same shot from a production house in Egypt starts around $700 per minute. I know because that's my own rate card.
I'll post this same dashboard every month.
Whether it says $0 or $1,000.
If you only ever see the good screenshots from someone building in public, you're seeing a highlight reel, not a business.
Following along means you see both.
53 people opened my finance app in the last 28 days.
0 trials started.
0 subscriptions.
$0 revenue.
Here's the dashboard, unedited. And here's exactly what I think is broken 🧵
Android version ships before August 31 or I lose the Play Store listing.
So I get to test all of this on a second platform under a deadline.
Great timing.
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Please keep the app installed for 14 days so the test counts.
And if you find a bug, have an idea, or think something could be better, send it to me.
I’m building Nolvi in public, and your feedback genuinely helps. ❤️
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I built an app called Nolvi because I wanted a simpler way to understand where my money actually goes.
Now I need your help testing it before the official Android launch 🚀
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How to join:
Join with the same Google account you use on the Play Store:
https://t.co/CIqV7JAco5
Become a tester:
https://t.co/CWzcnaNxnM
Install Nolvi.