I built Waypoint because a couple years ago I got in serious debt. I'd gotten into crypto and day trading thinking it was going to be the way to make money fast(spoiler: it was not). It made everything worse. I was 27, not sleeping, anxious about money constantly around that time.
It was only recently that my partner sat me down one night and said we need to figure this out together. We grabbed a piece of paper and drew out every single expense I had. That was genuinely the first time I'd ever budgeted in my life. Neither of us even knew what zero-based budgeting was. We just decided that no more spending on things we don't need. And that one conversation changed everything for me.
I'm a developer though, so the paper didn't last long. I started building a small app for myself, then my partner wanted in, and it kept growing from there.
Fast forward to today we've built something that now has a thousand users with 150 paying customers. It's changed our lives and I am starting to hear the same from others too which really fills my heart.
Stack for the curious: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL with Drizzle, Clerk, Plaid, Stripe, all hosted on Vercel.
There's a free tier to try it out. I'd really appreciate any feedback. I'm still actively building this and hearing what people actually want matters a lot to me.
Hi! I'm actually the partner in this story. That night with the piece of paper was real, and so is everything that came after it. Really proud of what he's built. Give it a try & let us know how we can improve :)
I built Waypoint because a couple years ago I got in serious debt. I'd gotten into crypto and day trading thinking it was going to be the way to make money fast(spoiler: it was not). It made everything worse. I was 27, not sleeping, anxious about money constantly around that time.
It was only recently that my partner sat me down one night and said we need to figure this out together. We grabbed a piece of paper and drew out every single expense I had. That was genuinely the first time I'd ever budgeted in my life. Neither of us even knew what zero-based budgeting was. We just decided that no more spending on things we don't need. And that one conversation changed everything for me.
I'm a developer though, so the paper didn't last long. I started building a small app for myself, then my partner wanted in, and it kept growing from there.
Fast forward to today we've built something that now has a thousand users with 150 paying customers. It's changed our lives and I am starting to hear the same from others too which really fills my heart.
Stack for the curious: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL with Drizzle, Clerk, Plaid, Stripe, all hosted on Vercel.
There's a free tier to try it out. I'd really appreciate any feedback. I'm still actively building this and hearing what people actually want matters a lot to me.