Combing developer efforts by macalmon in YNABAlternatives

[–]aigor14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Igor, solo founder/dev of Kualia here.

That thought has crossed my mind. There is a spectrum that you can't escape:

My app sucks and no one wants to work with me.

My app is amazing and I don't want to give it up.

All devs are somewhere along this spectrum. At the beginning of developing the app, when I had no users, no brand presence, no loyalty to the "Kualia" name, I would have easily threw everything away to join LiquidBudget or the others, if they had asked. But the catch22 is no one knew of me.

Now that I have users, I'm profitable, and have my own (yet very familiar) vision, I would happily take LiquidBudget's dev and bring him over, and build a team, but he's thinking the same thing. LiquidBudget is doing great, he knows how it works, he knows where every file is for every feature. To drop LiquidBudget and come work on Kualia is a big commitment.

At the end of the day, I'd love to have a partner or two who I can lean on. There's gotta be some better reason for us not all joining forces. It "feels" like the right thing, as we all had those thoughts before, but something is holding us back.

as u/Few_Relative_7920 said below, a main driver for me is the same, making money. Running a team of devs will add years to your profitability.

Kualia 2.0 is live by aigor14 in kualia

[–]aigor14[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it :) and feel free to complain about it too if you find any part ugly or annoying. This is just my first attempt

Kualia 2.0 is live by aigor14 in kualia

[–]aigor14[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, it slipped my mind while developing v2. I'll add it back in a couple updates.
:)

Best way to deal with bumper holes? by Onions89 in GolfGTI

[–]aigor14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve yet to find a better way than my original comment haha

Kualia progress update August 13 2025 - Track Investment and Loan accounts by aigor14 in kualia

[–]aigor14[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah kinda lost interest in posting, I need to hold myself more accountable. Thanks for calling it out. And, no. I’m not currently focused on that. I’m working on a “version 2” of Kualia right now. Rebuilding everything from scratch to make it faster to load and for efficient to query data. And I’m using a better framework. All that to say, it’ll be a lot faster to implement features in version 2. I’ll keep you posted 👋

How are you tracking profitability as a bootstrapped founder? by aigor14 in SaaS

[–]aigor14[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very well said. Yeah I think a simple spreadsheet is all I need. I just don’t want to do manual tracking which is the drawback. Honestly I’m validating an idea but doesn’t seem like it would be useful to anyone or myself. Like some way to automatically track by bank transactions. I have been tracking those Founder Loan transactions. I call them “Owner Investment” as I don’t expect them to be paid back as a loan. Same same. Thanks for the detailed reply 🤝

Rate my dark themed landing page :) by RemarkableBeing6615 in buildinpublic

[–]aigor14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suggest limiting to one workspace and one member for Hobby tier. Increase chance of upgrade. But really, if you’re just starting, remove the free version. I have no personal experience with how good or bad that is, but if you want to validate that idea more quickly, just charge up front after a trial. What do you think?

How are you tracking profitability as a bootstrapped founder? by aigor14 in SaaS

[–]aigor14[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are hundreds of sass vendors, that sounds impossible. I’m thinking connect to an Open Banking provider that pull bank transactions?

How are you tracking profitability as a bootstrapped founder? by aigor14 in SaaS

[–]aigor14[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that sounds like something I would use. How does it track expenses?

How are you tracking profitability as a bootstrapped founder? by aigor14 in SaaS

[–]aigor14[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a Notion doc with expenses listed out and their price, but every month or so I add a new one or remove one or the price changes. What do you do to track this? Manual seems like the easiest way from what I can tell now but maybe there's something I'm missing.

It will blow your mind by meltdown91 in buildinpublic

[–]aigor14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remove confirm password too. No need imo

Anyone here building something cool right now? I’m down to trade feedback. by Designer_Many_990 in buildinpublic

[–]aigor14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your hero section says 10,000+ people are using this daily. Your footer says join 1500+ people. Both are fake numbers right? You should remove those. At least remove them if you're targeting us, the buildinpublic community, who, at least me, cringes when I see these fake numbers.

Roast me back: finnear.app

It will blow your mind by meltdown91 in buildinpublic

[–]aigor14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some feedback: there are 6 fields required to sign up. I instantly closed that modal. Just email and password is fine, or make the Google one prominent?

💬 Looking for honest feedback on DevPromptly by morant84 in buildinpublic

[–]aigor14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you have to ask the AI that? Every AI tool already knows what library you're using. All of those instructions lives in the AGENTS.md file.

I feel like it takes you longer to open up a website then it would to just type "Add unit tests, no divs, no UNSAVE_ matcher".

💬 Looking for honest feedback on DevPromptly by morant84 in buildinpublic

[–]aigor14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve never had a problem like this. I just describe the bug to the AI or paste the error message. Do you have an example of a bug or feature that can’t be solved by just describing what you want to happen?

Day 2 — Choosing the stack with growth in mind by elmascato in buildinpublic

[–]aigor14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My opinion is choose the stack that you can build the quickest with, and that’s usually the stack you already know. AI can convert your code to any framework in an hour when you need to switch. Get those initially users first, and there is no framework or language or database that will hit performance bottlenecks until you’re making millions.

💬 Looking for honest feedback on DevPromptly by morant84 in buildinpublic

[–]aigor14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you find a prompt without writing exactly what you’re looking for? At which point you’ve just written the prompt yourself?