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THE WEALTHFOLIO Blog
Thoughts on Product, Technology, and Software Engineering
Featured Stories
A new save-up simulator for everyday goals and a retirement & FIRE simulator. A step toward Wealthfolio being your wealth companion, not just a tracker.
Releases
Introducing Wealthfolio Add-ons
Opening Wealthfolio to add-ons: a safe, scoped way to build and share custom features while the core stays fast, private, and uncluttered.
General
Wealthfolio Manifesto
Why I Built a Privacy-First Investment Tracker.
Latest Posts
Engineering
Local-first and the SQLite Bet
Why Wealthfolio's portfolio lives in a SQLite file on your machine instead of a cloud database, and what that decision cost us to make work.
Local-first
SQLite
Tauri
General
On Losing the Thread
The hardest thing about building an open source app is staying connected to your own work. A reflection on how maker becomes maintainer, and why protecting the space to build from a personal place matters.
Open Source
Solo Founder
Product
In September 2024, my side project Wealthfolio, a simple, open-source desktop investment tracker I built over the summer, unexpectedly went viral, reaching the front page of Hacker News and GitHub's trending list. Here's how this small and elegant app captured the attention of thousands.
opensource
rust
tauri