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moneytyping for tech workers

₹12 LPA.
Still broke.
Here's the bug.

You can debug code. You can optimize a query. You can reason about systems with hundreds of moving parts. But your own spending is a black box. The fix isn't a spreadsheet. It's visibility — the same thing you'd add to any system you couldn't understand.

Free forever · No bank connection · Export to CSV for your own analysis

The tech salary paradox, in three scenarios

The RSU Wealth Illusion

Your company grants you ₹2,00,000 in RSUs. On paper you're wealthier. In reality you're watching stock tickers, calculating vesting schedules, and spending against a paper value that fluctuates daily. Your actual cash flow — what arrives in your account, what leaves it — is a completely different number that you've never clearly mapped against your actual spending.

The Lifestyle Creep Trap

Three years ago you earned ₹8 LPA and felt broke. Now you earn ₹12 LPA and feel the same. The salary went up ₹4 LPA. Where did it go? Better apartment. Better food. Better gym. Newer phone. Upgraded tools. Each upgrade felt earned. Together they consumed every rupee of every raise you've ever received — and you can't see it because it happened one reasonable decision at a time.

The Tool Justification Spiral

₹1,50,000 mechanical keyboard because you type 8 hours a day. ₹80,000 noise-cancelling headphones for focus. ₹50,000 monitor arm for ergonomics. ₹12,000/year in GitHub Copilot, Notion, Figma, Linear. Each purchase has a legitimate reason. Nobody has ever added them up in a single view and asked: what is my actual cost of working?

Why typing beats dashboards

Real data, real time

You love data. moneytyping gives you actual spending patterns in your own words — not categorized guesses from a bank import that labels everything "AMAZON" and "SWIGGY." Context is the data you were missing.

Pattern recognition is your superpower

You debug by finding patterns. Find spending patterns the same way. "I spend ₹8K on food delivery every month when I'm heads-down on a deadline" is an insight a bank statement can't generate.

Equity vs cash, finally visible

Log RSU grants when they vest. Track cash separately from paper wealth. See exactly how much of your financial picture is liquid vs. theoretical. Make decisions with real numbers.

Export for your own analysis

Your entries are yours. Export, query, visualize however you want. Build your own spending dashboard. Treat it like any data set — because that's what it is.

The moneytyping.log()
// What your entries look like
"Rent ₹35,000 — up ₹3K from last year, that's ₹36K/yr lifestyle inflation from this alone"
"GitHub Copilot ₹1,200 — worth it, saves 45min/day, easy ROI"
"Mechanical keyboard ₹1,50,000 — typed on it for a week now, still not sure, ask me in month 3"
"Swiggy ₹680, deadline week, third order today, this is a pattern I should track"
"RSU vested: 50 shares @ ₹2,200 = ₹1,10,000. Sold 30, held 20. Tax note: ₹66,000 is now income."

Month to month, you see the real picture. Not what you earn — what you actually keep. Not theoretical RSU wealth — actual cash flow. Not what you think you spend on tools — what you actually spend, with your own assessment of whether each is worth it.

The comparison you'd actually want to see
FeatureGoogle Sheetsmoneytyping
Real-time mobile loggingPainful✓ 30 seconds
Context notes per transactionPossible, rarely done✓ The whole product
RSU / equity trackingManual, workable✓ Natural language
Export to CSVIt IS a spreadsheet✓ Your data, portable
Pattern detectionWith formulas✓ Readable in plain text
Bank connection requiredNoNever — privacy first
CostFreeFree forever
Questions techies ask
Can I export my data and run my own analysis?
Yes. Your entries are yours. Export as text, build whatever you want on top of it. Some users pipe their entries into their own dashboards. The data is clean, timestamped, and in plain language — which is actually easier to work with than transaction codes from a bank feed.
I spend ₹1.5L on a keyboard. Is the app going to judge me?
The app has no concept of judgment. Type "Mechanical keyboard ₹1,50,000 — use 8 hours/day, worth it" and that's what's recorded. At year-end you decide if it was worth it based on your own assessment, not a category limit.
My expenses are in multiple currencies. Can this handle that?
Yes. Type in whatever currency makes sense, convert in your notes if you want. "AWS bill $47 = ₹3,900" is a perfectly valid entry. The app is a text field — it handles whatever you type.
Will this help me think through salary vs equity tradeoffs?
It will show you your actual spending rate — which is the number you need for that calculation. If you spend ₹80K/month and are considering an offer with more equity and less cash, you now have a real baseline to reason from.

Debug your money.
Visibility first.

Type every transaction. Build the data set. See the system clearly.

Free forever · Export to CSV · No bank connection required

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