Freelance Flow: Lightweight Finance Tracker

This is Freelance Flow, a lightweight finance tracker. There are a lot of budgeting tools out there, but most of them overcomplicate something pretty simple. As someone who’s self-employed, I just needed an easy way to track bills, subscriptions, which account they’re paid from, and, honestly, whether I’ve actually paid them yet. (Sometimes I space out, sue me.) It’s also important for me to know whats a ‘house bill’ versus a ‘business subscription’ and all the expenses in between. 

This app runs locally and does exactly what I need. It’s actually the first app I’ve published that was built almost entirely with GitHub Copilot. I wanted to see what would happen if I gave really descriptive prompts and just let the AI take the wheel.

For the most part, the build was smooth. I wasn’t thinking about scalability. This was just a small tool I could run locally when I needed it and Copilot kept me focused on outcomes instead of setup.

If I were building for commercial use, though, I’d be a lot more skeptical. The code runs fine but if I wanted to hand it off or expand functionality? Absolutely not 🤭 The models and variable names are vague, validation is shallow, and small repetitions creep in. It doesn’t plan for scaling, catch edge cases, or care about readability unless you steer it. The result is code that works, but still needs a developer’s judgment to make it clean and sustainable.

AI speeds up the build and it’s great for prototyping or for local tools like this one, but craftsmanship still comes from people who care about clarity, structure, and intent.

If you want to try it out and see what I mean, you can check it out here: https://github.com/fhayes301/FreelanceFlow.git