Abhinav Jangid

Abhinav Jangid

Young dev, trying to build useful apps.

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Abhinav Jangid

22h ago

Launching Spenlys soon – an AI-powered finance app. Would love feedback!

Hi PH Community!

I'm Abhinav, a teenage indie maker creating Spenlys a AI-personal finance app

which provides intelligent insights, and even financial advice through chat. I created it because most finance apps were clunky and didn't really offer guidance.

Offering free premium to early users — is this a good validation strategy?

So I recently made my first app Spenlys.com an AI-powered personal finance tool. It gives users spending insights, AI suggestions more useful stuff.

But as you know, AI infra isn t cheap. And getting users for a brand-new tool is kinda hard. So I m trying this approach:

Some features are behind a premium paywall (looks real).

But when users click Upgrade to Pro, they see the pricing and if they click buy they instantly get it for free with a note like:

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