The Spreadsheet I Replaced With a Web App (And Almost Went Back)

The Spreadsheet I Replaced With a Web App (And Almost Went Back) For three years, I managed my budget in a Google Sheet. Not a fancy template — just a plain grid I built myself. One tab for income, one for expenses, a SUM formula at the bottom, and a cell I'd turn red when I overspent. Ugly. Functional. Mine. I knew every row. I added entries by hand, every transaction, every coffee. The friction was the point. Typing "$4.50 — coffee — Tuesday" meant I felt that $4.50 instead of watching it vanish into a synced ledger somewhere. Then I built Monee . Why I Even Built It The spreadsheet had limits. It didn't work well on mobile. Sharing it with my partner meant version conflicts. And every month I'd copy-paste the same boilerplate into a new sheet. So I spent a weekend writing a web app. Clean UI, localStorage only, no accounts, no backend. It did exactly what the spreadsheet did — minus the formatting hassle. I was proud of it. I switched over immediately. The Honeymoon Phase The first