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Expense Tracker

Personal finance log.

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Prompt
Build a personal finance tracker where users can add expenses by category. Include a pie chart summary and a monthly budget progress bar.
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Why this exists

Most budgeting apps want one thing before they show you a single chart: your bank login. You hand over read access to every transaction you have ever made, and in return the app categorizes your coffee, sells the aggregate, and bills you a subscription on top. Tracking what you spend should not cost you your financial privacy. This blueprint builds you a tracker that never phones home: you describe it, the agent builds it, and every number you enter stays in your own app under your own account.

What the agent builds

A personal finance tracker built around the loop that changes behavior: add an expense, tag it with a category, and watch the picture update. You get a pie chart that breaks spending down by category, and a monthly budget progress bar that fills as you spend, so overspending is obvious before the month ends, not after. The totals are computed cleanly, so the chart and the bar always agree with the list.

You watch it happen in the task workspace: the agent scaffolds the project, wires the categories and the chart, and checks the numbers add up before handing you a live preview. The code lands on a branch in your repository with a pull request ready.

Make it yours

The first version is a starting point you steer with plain follow-up messages:

  • "Add income tracking so I can see net cash flow."
  • "Let me set a separate budget per category."
  • "Add a CSV export for my accountant."
  • "Show a month-over-month comparison chart."

Each follow-up wakes the same repository and the agent continues on its own code.

FAQ

Do I need to know how to code? No. You describe the tracker you want; the agent writes it, verifies the totals, and ships the code to your repository.

Where does my spending data live? In your app, in your repository, under your account. Nothing goes to a budgeting service, and no bank connection is required.

Can I set my own categories? Yes. Ask for the categories you use and the agent wires them in; you are not stuck with someone else's list.

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