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beanies.family - planning for your beans
simplify your family life. every bean counts.
Hey, guys! Yes, it's *actually* me. beanies.family sits at the intersection of family, finance, and data security, unlike many apps built by major software or VC-backed startups, who have this pesky obsession with making money, harvesting your data, or both. I built this app to help you navigate your full (and crazy) family and financial life. I'd love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think.
Yes, it's *still* me. Believe it or not, I actually prefer to write these myself, leaving AI in the dust with my apt metaphors, stirring my glorious cauldron of human-generated thoughts and ideas, bubbling with astute cerebral insight, boiling over into a stew of wonderfully salubrious word soup du jour, ensuring that I never lose my precious perspicacity (don't worry - it's always in the last place you look). By the way, +100 points to anyone who spots the classic mid-90s TV show references.
Beat that, ChatGPT! Now, where was I?
Roughly 0 score and several weeks ago, I didn't set out to do much, except experiment with AI by building a basic Vue sandbox app to test out feature ideas for my consulting clients. I used Vue, mainly, since I was sick of React and wanted to try a front end tool that wasn't in a never ending competition to defy all forms of logic and common sense.
We (my glorious claude and I) built a simple financial planner for my family, since (a) I don't like giving away my online banking credentials to random apps, and (b) I don't actually know my true net worth, since all my finance data happens to be in a spreadsheet I last updated in 2009 with formulas that have been broken for about 17 years.
800 commits, 250 cups of coffee, and roughly 89,000 gloriously vibe-coded lines later (I won't even mention how many lines of code we *deleted*), I found myself gazing proudly at a nano banana generated image of my actual family in beanie form, and everything I always wanted to see about my personal, family, and financial life laid out in a way that didn't actually make me want to cry.
Even in its infancy, beanies has helped me organize my family life to a point where I legitimately feel calmer, less stressed, and more energized. The ability to capture my thoughts, family activities, finances, travel plans, and other critical, precious personal info in a clean and secure way gives me a genuine feeling of relief and control. No jokes or silly old school TV references here - it's a game changer for me.
Beanies started as a throwaway project (in fact, it wasn't even called beanies at first - it actually had a way, way more boring name which I will never divulge) and morphed, through a combined 20 years of parenting and financial pain and suffering, into an app I genuinely enjoy using. And there's not too many apps (whether built by me or not) I can say that about.
Here's the fun stuff:
Claude Max / Opus 4.6 - Mostly. I may have pitched in a line or 2.
Vue 3 / TypeScript + Vite / Tailwind / Pinia
IndexedDB - to cache encrypted family data in your local browser, which you can clear at anytime
Web Crypto API - Your data is fully encrypted in transit and at rest (AES-256-GCM), each family member gets their own password-derived key (PBKDF2) that wraps a shared family key (AES-KW), and data never leaves your personal storage location, except to travel directly to (and from) your browser's (encrypted) cache
Automerge - for CRDTs - adds a bit of heft to the package, but we tried rolling our own merge algorithms and trust me, it's not worth it, Keeping your data safe is what matters
Vitest + Playwright + Dependabot - unit tests, E2E tests, and automated dependency updates to keep things secure (seriously, how cool is Dependabot!?)
One single, stupid, plain vanilla DynamoDB - in the cloud to map your family ID to your (encrypted) data file, so we can locate it in your personal location that only you can access. Nothing else. Anywhere. Ever.
If you have a crazy family like me, give beanies.family a shot and let me know what you think. Of course, it's totally free. Not freemium, not paywall, not free trial. Just free.
WARNING ABOUT ANY (POTENTIAL FUTURE) PRICING: We don’t do ads, or tracking, or data harvesting, or anything like that, so if by some miracle this becomes something real, it may not be free forever. I’m already paying for cloud infra, and I need to eat too.
If I add pricing in the future, for my beloved early adopters that join today (and when I say "today" I mean, if you can still see this comment, then, "today"), your price would be be $0.99c/month. That's not an intro fee - $0.99c/mo would be your price forever for being an early supporter. You have my bean, which is as good as (or maybe even better than) my word. Cuz heaven knows I love my beans.
Peace out, my beanies.
greg
ps - If you're interested in following along with me on this crazy journey, please subscribe to my substack.
pps - for those who, by some incredible, glorious miracle, in this infinite cosmos of a never-ending sea of apps, want to actually try my app for real, the invite code is frankandbeanies
Hi everybody! (Hi Dr. Nick!)
Yes, it's *still* me. Believe it or not, I actually prefer to write these myself, leaving AI in the dust with my apt metaphors, stirring my glorious cauldron of human-generated thoughts and ideas, bubbling with astute cerebral insight, boiling over into a stew of wonderfully salubrious word soup du jour, ensuring that I never lose my precious perspicacity (don't worry - it's always in the last place you look). By the way, +100 points to anyone who spots the classic mid-90s TV show references.
Beat that, ChatGPT! Now, where was I?
Roughly 0 score and several weeks ago, I didn't set out to do much, except experiment with AI by building a basic Vue sandbox app to test out feature ideas for my consulting clients. I used Vue, mainly, since I was sick of React and wanted to try a front end tool that wasn't in a never ending competition to defy all forms of logic and common sense.
We (my glorious claude and I) built a simple financial planner for my family, since (a) I don't like giving away my online banking credentials to random apps, and (b) I don't actually know my true net worth, since all my finance data happens to be in a spreadsheet I last updated in 2009 with formulas that have been broken for about 17 years.
800 commits, 250 cups of coffee, and roughly 89,000 gloriously vibe-coded lines later (I won't even mention how many lines of code we *deleted*), I found myself gazing proudly at a nano banana generated image of my actual family in beanie form, and everything I always wanted to see about my personal, family, and financial life laid out in a way that didn't actually make me want to cry.
Even in its infancy, beanies has helped me organize my family life to a point where I legitimately feel calmer, less stressed, and more energized. The ability to capture my thoughts, family activities, finances, travel plans, and other critical, precious personal info in a clean and secure way gives me a genuine feeling of relief and control. No jokes or silly old school TV references here - it's a game changer for me.
Beanies started as a throwaway project (in fact, it wasn't even called beanies at first - it actually had a way, way more boring name which I will never divulge) and morphed, through a combined 20 years of parenting and financial pain and suffering, into an app I genuinely enjoy using. And there's not too many apps (whether built by me or not) I can say that about.
Here's the fun stuff:
Claude Max / Opus 4.6 - Mostly. I may have pitched in a line or 2.
Vue 3 / TypeScript + Vite / Tailwind / Pinia
IndexedDB - to cache encrypted family data in your local browser, which you can clear at anytime
Web Crypto API - Your data is fully encrypted in transit and at rest (AES-256-GCM), each family member gets their own password-derived key (PBKDF2) that wraps a shared family key (AES-KW), and data never leaves your personal storage location, except to travel directly to (and from) your browser's (encrypted) cache
Automerge - for CRDTs - adds a bit of heft to the package, but we tried rolling our own merge algorithms and trust me, it's not worth it, Keeping your data safe is what matters
Vitest + Playwright + Dependabot - unit tests, E2E tests, and automated dependency updates to keep things secure (seriously, how cool is Dependabot!?)
One single, stupid, plain vanilla DynamoDB - in the cloud to map your family ID to your (encrypted) data file, so we can locate it in your personal location that only you can access. Nothing else. Anywhere. Ever.
If you have a crazy family like me, give beanies.family a shot and let me know what you think. Of course, it's totally free. Not freemium, not paywall, not free trial. Just free.
WARNING ABOUT ANY (POTENTIAL FUTURE) PRICING: We don’t do ads, or tracking, or data harvesting, or anything like that, so if by some miracle this becomes something real, it may not be free forever. I’m already paying for cloud infra, and I need to eat too.
If I add pricing in the future, for my beloved early adopters that join today (and when I say "today" I mean, if you can still see this comment, then, "today"), your price would be be $0.99c/month. That's not an intro fee - $0.99c/mo would be your price forever for being an early supporter. You have my bean, which is as good as (or maybe even better than) my word. Cuz heaven knows I love my beans.
Peace out, my beanies.
greg
ps - If you're interested in following along with me on this crazy journey, please subscribe to my substack.
pps - for those who, by some incredible, glorious miracle, in this infinite cosmos of a never-ending sea of apps, want to actually try my app for real, the invite code is frankandbeanies