For personal use

Tools I built for myself

Two systems I live on every day: the household budget and the car log.

I hold my own data to the same rule I propose to organizations: code decides, and the model helps without ever inventing a number.

Household budget

MB

Every expense is booked automatically, and I approve anything uncertain.

I built it to know where every riyal goes without manual entry. It brings bank text messages, bank emails and statements into one ledger.

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Captures every bank text message and saves it as is before any processing, so nothing is lost if a later step fails. Bank emails land in the same place without duplicates.
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Reads the message with fixed rules: amount, account, date and merchant. AI doesn't decide here: it can stop a booking when in doubt, but it can't change one.
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Anything uncertain reaches me on Telegram with buttons, so I book it or skip it with one tap, and any edit can be undone.
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I upload the statement, it reconciles it line by line against the entries, then I sign off the month and it locks.
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Every code change passes a 9-stage gate on a full staging copy before production.

Next.js PostgreSQL Node.js Qwen 3.8 27B Runs locally

Two separate systems, and a car expense is entered only once: from the bank message to the car log in one tap.

Bank messageA fuel, car wash, parking or service charge

MBBooks the expense and knows from the merchant and category that it's for the car

Telegram"Which car?" with a button for each car

TirsLogs it with the bank reference, and asks for the odometer if it's fuel

The same bank reference links the entry in both systems, so a resend never creates a duplicate.

Vehicle log

My car log: fuel, service and documents, fed by the budget automatically.

I wanted a complete record for each car without entering anything twice. Fuel, car washes and service that MB books reach Tirs in one tap.

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When MB books a car expense, my Telegram assistant asks: which car? One tap logs it, and it asks for the odometer reading if it's fuel.
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Reads the bill with PaddleOCR-VL, Qwen 3.8 27B organizes it into line items, then it drops any amount not printed on the bill.
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Alerts me 30 days, 7 days and one day before documents expire, and predicts service dates from the distance I drive each day.
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Rejects an implausible odometer reading, like an extra digit that multiplies the distance tenfold. I added this after a real mistake.

Next.js SQLite PaddleOCR-VL Qwen 3.8 27B Runs locally