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WasteLvl only records the money you already wasted — no budgets, no categories, no income. Four fields: date, experience, amount, what you spent it on. Every waste becomes XP that levels up a pixel adventurer. 35 currencies, 47 languages. Free on iOS/Android.
Every budgeting app I tried wanted me to plan ahead — set a budget, pick a category, reconcile income. I never kept it up, and the guilt of having spent the money never went anywhere.
So I built the opposite. WasteLvl only records money that is already gone. No budgets, no income, no categories to agonise over. You pick one of three "experiences" — Growth, Reward, Bond — type the amount and what it was, and you're done. Four fields.
The twist: what you wasted becomes XP. Your level goes up and a pixel adventurer grows with it, gaining a weapon, a shield, companions.
The biggest change during development was the level curve. In the first build, spending a month's worth of coffee moved you from Lv 5 to Lv 6 and nothing felt like it happened. I recut it as the square root of what you spend, so a single record can jump you several levels early on. Levelling up is the whole reward of this app, so it needed to happen often.
Everything is hand-drawn pixel art, and every sound is a square wave synthesised on the fly — no audio files, like an 8-bit console.
35 currencies, 47 languages, records never leave your device.
Free on iOS and Android. I'd love to know whether recording the waste feels better to you than budgeting against it.
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About WasteLvl on Product Hunt
“Waste money, level up”
WasteLvl was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #137 on the daily leaderboard. WasteLvl only records the money you already wasted — no budgets, no categories, no income. Four fields: date, experience, amount, what you spent it on. Every waste becomes XP that levels up a pixel adventurer. 35 currencies, 47 languages. Free on iOS/Android.
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