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This is a budget tracking dashboard built entirely in Excel, designed to replace the typical cluttered "totals + pie charts" layout most budget templates default to.
Instead of static tables, the dashboard uses KPI cards (Total Planned, Total Actual, Variance, % of Budget Used) with sparkline trends, a Planned → Actual → Balance waterfall chart to show variance at a glance, and slicers that let the user filter by category or time period, with everything on the sheet updating live.
What it includes:
KPI summary cards with month-over-month sparklines
A waterfall-style variance chart replacing traditional bar/pie combinations
Category and period slicers connected to PivotTables for real interactivity, not just static charts
Conditional formatting on the variance table (over/under budget flagged automatically)
A plain-English insights panel summarizing what the numbers mean
A simple linear forecast projecting year-end spend based on current burn rate
Design approach: clean, minimal styling inspired by modern product dashboards (Linear, Notion) muted color palette, no gridlines, consistent typography built to look like a tool someone would actually want to open, not a default Excel export.
Personal Finance Dashboard
Designed and developed a modern personal finance application focused on helping users manage subscriptions, track expenses, organize budgets, and visualize financial activity through an intuitive user experience.
The project included the complete product design process, from interface design and user flows to responsive layouts and front-end implementation. The application is fully functional and deployed online.
I built a FREE chrome extension that save you $799.
I saw a prompt enhancer tool $39 to start. Caps you at 200 prompts a month. $799 is their max tier
but my tool is free. Actually free, not "free trial" free.
Here's how it works — you bring your own AI provider. Connect OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible API. Plenty of providers give out free API keys, so you can run this without spending a cent, ever.
No prompt caps. No tiers. No $799 plan. Everything is just... unlimited, by default, for everyone.
It works right inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and a few others out of the box. Don't see your favorite AI site on the list? Add it yourself — custom website support is built in, so literally any site can get the enhance button.
You also get four enhancement modes and you can save your best prompts to reuse across any site. If you want even more control, you can rewrite the enhancement logic itself with your own custom instructions —
No account needed. No signup form. Install the extension, drop in your API key, and you're enhancing prompts in under a seconds.
Everything stays on your device. We're not tracking anything or holding your data hostage on a server somewhere.
It's genuinely free right now, no restrictions, while we're still building it out. If you use it and have thoughts — good, bad, "please add this" — tell me.
That feedback is literally what decides what we build next: a cloud version, more features.
If you want in, drop a comment and I'll send you the link.
Save your $799. Go try it.
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