u/Background_Outside28

Hi everyone. I am a QA tester with 7 years of experience. I just released my first app called Lupi (a subscription tracker).

We all know the new Google Play rule, you need 12 testers for 14 days. I had to find strangers on Facebook groups to help me (as I don't have so many friends with Androids). I got 18 testers. Do you know how much feedback I received? Zero 😂

But it gets worse. While my app was still in the closed beta, one of those "testers" actually copied my UI and my logo. They published a copycat app before me (on App store). I was furious. But then I realized that actually, if someone steals your design before you even launch, your UX must be really good.

I built the app with React Native and a local-first SQLite database. Of course AI helped me write the code, but I think that my QA skills pushed it to production. The app tracks your regular expenses + warns you before a free trial ends.

I learned that random testers are useless. If you want real feedback, ask other developers, or family/friends.

Let me know if you want the link to check it out. I'm ready for the roast to make it better 🔥 (real feedback needed 😅)

App stores make a lot of money when we forget to cancel a free trial. They don't want to remind you.

I got really tired of losing money on forgotten subscriptions and forgotten payments (today we have so many of them, so it's super hard to track them all). I don't know how to code from scratch, so I used AI as my "junior developer". Unfortunately, AI makes stupid mistakes, so I have to use all my 7 years of QA experience to clean up the mess and actually launch my first app 😂

It is called Lupi. It is a local-first subscription tracker. No cloud, no bank logins. Your data stays on your phone.

The best thing in the app - it notifies you whenever a trial is about to finish, or your payment is coming (whatever it is, Netflix, Gym, Insurance, etc.)

AI helped me start, but testing made it real.

I will put the links in the comments. Since I am a QA, I tried to break it many times. But I am sure you guys can break it better. Let me know what you think! I would be grateful for every comment and feedback :)

Like many here, I track my major expenses and overall savings rate closely. But recently, I realized I was suffering from "subscription creep". It wasn't just the obvious ones like Netflix or Spotify. Some of them were "hidden": health care, car GPS navigation, annual insurance, or gym memberships.

I sat down and mapped out every single one of them. What hit me wasn't the monthly cost, but the annual one. Seeing a $15/month service presented as a $180/year drag on my investments changes the perspective completely.

I used to manage this in a excel, but it didn't send me push notifications before annual renewals hit my card. Because I couldn't find a privacy-focused tool, I spent the last few months building my own local-first tracker on my phone just to get my cash flow in order and thanks to that I already resigned from car navigation that I don't use (as I have an Apple Car I can you google maps for free) and Disney+ as I realized that I don't need all of them at once.

How often do you guys do a hard audit of your recurring bills? Have you found any "vampire" subscriptions dragging down your saving reate lately?