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I am a 14 year old dev trying to make useful apps. Do the web stuff mostly, learning by making useful projects love the new AI stuff. Working on my first big project - Spenlys. Excited about launching more projects. Let's connect!
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Launching Spenlys soon – an AI-powered finance app. Would love feedback!
Hi PH Community!
I'm Abhinav, a teenage indie maker creating Spenlys a AI-personal finance app
which provides intelligent insights, and even financial advice through chat. I created it because most finance apps were clunky and didn't really offer guidance.
Offering free premium to early users — is this a good validation strategy?
So I recently made my first app Spenlys.com an AI-powered personal finance tool. It gives users spending insights, AI suggestions more useful stuff.
But as you know, AI infra isn t cheap. And getting users for a brand-new tool is kinda hard. So I m trying this approach:
Some features are behind a premium paywall (looks real).
But when users click Upgrade to Pro, they see the pricing and if they click buy they instantly get it for free with a note like: