⚠️ I am archiving this because fuck Apple. Twats won’t allow me to run the app I build on my own phone more than a week without rebuild. I’ll probably build a web version of this sometime soon.
Kharcha is an iOS app which provides a UI for ledger file of my everyday expenses.
- Provide insight into my expenses
- Answer questions about things I have purchased in past. For example:
- How has the price of <X> changed? e.g show a graph of price over time
- What is the cheapest place I bought <X> from?
- How much money has spent in <Y> store?
- Help me to find and fix cognitive biases in my spending habits
- Answer questions about things I have purchased in past. For example:
- Planning expenses
- Help me plan things I want to purchase from where and when to purchase them
- Help me answer questions like
- Which store should I visit for purchasing everything in my list?
- Optimize value for money
- Optimize for getting maximum value for money spent
- It should take into account the quality of things I buy when optimizing for price and not just pick the cheapest items. I don’t want to save 20 cents and get cancer instead.
- Set and achieve hedonistic goals
- Help me identify certain things as hedonistic and help me get them without putting a dent in my budget. For example it should help me squeeze a few pennies by shifting my spending habits a little bit and contribute to purchasing nice-to-have things
I have recently relocated to Berlin. I am in that phase where everything seems outrageously expensive, which make me very anxious. This app is one of my attempts to channelize this anxiety into learning and building something useful.