KudiLog
A fast, local-first budgeting PWA for logging expenses, understanding monthly patterns, and keeping financial data on-device.
The challenge
Budgeting tools often make a simple expense entry feel like administrative work, while sending personal financial records to a remote account. KudiLog needed to be quick, private, and useful without a backend.
The approach
A React and Vite PWA stores records in IndexedDB through Dexie live queries. A natural-language expense input, category detection, monthly analytics, recurring-expense detection, import/export, and Workbox caching keep the core experience available offline.
What I learned
Local-first products can feel substantially faster when persistence and reactivity are designed together, but portability and schema versioning need to be part of the first data model.
Role
Product engineer
Outcome
An installable offline-first budgeting tool with instant expense capture, analytics, backups, and multi-currency support.