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BuyMeNot
What if you invested the money you didn't spend?
BuyMeNot tracks the purchases you resist and projects what that money could grow into if invested in a broad index fund instead. Turn impulse control into compound growth. Hypothetical "what if" projections — not financial advice, no real money moves.
Hey Product Fam 👋
I built BuyMeNot because of a small, stupid feeling: I'd talk myself out
of buying something, feel briefly good about it, and then... nothing. The
money just quietly sat there and got spent on something else later.
Every finance app I tried tracks what you spend. None of them had any
concept of what you *didn't* spend — which is strange, because that's the
decision you actually want to reinforce.
So BuyMeNot tracks the other side. You log the thing you decided not to
buy, and it shows what that money could be worth if you'd invested it
instead. A $6 coffee you skipped isn't $6. Over 30 years it's a different
number, and seeing that number is weirdly motivating.
How it evolved: I built the mobile app first, and then noticed the flaw.
Resisting the purchase was never the hard part — remembering to log it
was. And most impulse buying happens in a browser tab, not on your phone.
So I built a Chrome extension: you're on a product page, you decide not to
buy it, you click the toolbar icon and the name and price are already
filled in. One more click and it's logged.
One thing I was deliberate about: nothing is actually invested, and the app
never pretends otherwise. The projections are hypothetical, at a rate you
set yourself. It's a motivation tool, not financial advice.
It's free on iPhone, Android, web, and now Chrome.
About BuyMeNot on Product Hunt
“What if you invested the money you didn't spend?”
BuyMeNot was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 1 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #150 on the daily leaderboard. BuyMeNot tracks the purchases you resist and projects what that money could grow into if invested in a broad index fund instead. Turn impulse control into compound growth. Hypothetical "what if" projections — not financial advice, no real money moves.
On the analytics side, BuyMeNot competes within Chrome Extensions, Fintech, Investing and Shopping — topics that collectively have 128.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how BuyMeNot performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted BuyMeNot?
BuyMeNot was hunted by Sharath E. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of BuyMeNot including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Sharath E