Lode – AI Expense Tracker
Budgeting you can text like a friend
What this is
A shared couples' budget app with an AI chat interface (text an expense, snap a receipt) replacing spreadsheets.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- A shared budget between partners that updates live via iCloud, with an AI chat interface — type something like "coffee 5" to log an expense, or snap a photo of a receipt to have it read automatically. Includes budgets, goals, debt tracking, multi-currency, and widgets.
- What's different
- Replaces spreadsheets and split-expense apps with a conversational, always-synced shared budget.
- Best for
- Couples who want to track shared spending without spreadsheets.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 15 days
- Last checked
- 1h ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
AI. Launched 15d ago on Product Hunt, picking up 6 votes. Today, the site itself changed 1h ago — evidence it's still shipping, not just announcing.
Moving right now. The clock only starts when a launch goes quiet.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
Shipping record
3 separate days we saw this ship · Jul 12 → Jul 28 · sources: app store release, page changed
Beyan değil kanıt: founder “çalışıyoruz” diye post atabilir, ama sevk ettiyse izi kalır. ⚠️ Kaydı olmayan ürün “sevk etmedi” demek değildir — o üründe izleyecek bir kaynağımız yok demektir.
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It launched on Product Hunt with 6 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
5 quiet days in between are left out — nothing happened on them. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
No names, on purpose — a call is worth what it turns out to be worth, not who made it.
Daily tracking just started for this launch — the first point is on the board. A second reading lands with tomorrow's run, and the curve builds from there.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
My partner and I kept asking "did you pay for that?" Spreadsheets and split apps never stuck. So I built Lode: a shared budget that updates live via iCloud, plus an AI chat — type "coffee 5" and it's added, snap a receipt and it reads itself. Solo project, under 6 months. Now: budgets, goals, debts, multi-currency, widgets. Built for us — hope it helps you too 🙏
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Hunt | 6 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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