alt Hacker NewsOkay I’ll bite.
Thanks to AI, I was able to finish my bookkeeping and accounting app I had been working on years ago. https://financica.app
It’s not just “vibe coded”, it’s really damn good. Because thanks to AI, whenever I spot an issue, a quality of life increase etc I can just immediately implement it rather than have it seat in a perpetually growing backlog of “maybe one day”.
And there’s SO MANY standards to comply with especially in Europe and I just … implemented all of them. It’s more full featured than any of its competitors.
It runs the bookkeeping and accounting for all of my own companies plus plenty of customers. And the funny thing is for me, this is pretty much a side project. I just have people helping on sales, but all the development is me.
> I can just immediately implement it rather than have it seat in a perpetually growing backlog of “maybe one day”.
My backlog for my side-project/business had a number of things in it that were frankly never going to happen. They only existed in the backlog so I could say they were in the backlog and add a note about who expressed interest in it so that, if it reached a critical mass, I could justify dedicating the time. That backlog is largely empty now. Things I thought were a pipedream or a "well, maybe one day if this gets bigger" became a reality.