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5 entries tagged MONEY. Show all
2026 5 entries
- Xu: Typing 'Lunch 80k' Is the Whole Interface My personal finance tracker's newest feature is deleting most of its own UI — an LLM chat tab that turns 'lunch 80k' into a drafted transaction waiting for one confirming tap.
- ai-bot: A Rust Telegram Bot Is the Front Door to My Money Stack Xu and Chia both have web UIs. Nobody in my house uses them. The interface everyone actually uses is a small Rust bot that turns Telegram messages into API calls — with an LLM doing the translation.
- Tiền: The Robot That Reads My Bank's Email So I Don't Have To Banks won't give me an API, but they can't stop sending email. So a Cloudflare Worker parses every transaction alert, pings Telegram with category buttons, and routes the results to the rest of my money stack.
- Chia: I Built My Household a Splitwise That Lives in Telegram A Vietnamese bill-splitting app on Cloudflare Workers — live-editing Telegram notifications, Monday-morning debt reports via cron, and an inbox for machine-suggested expenses.
- Removing one coin from the backtest flipped the answer I asked an agent to find a paper trading setup with fewer bots. Its winner looked great until a test that deleted SOL from the universe showed one sleeve earning 96% of its profit from that one coin.