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Meet Billy

Your household's AI-powered companion for finance and fitness. Track expenses, plan meals, manage budgets — together, as a household.

But why?
Finance Fitness

We've All Been There

Real problems. No workaround. Until now.

01

The Paycheck Puzzle

You got paid. Nice. But what's left after taxes, pension, health insurance? You do the math once and forget the numbers by next month. Now add complexity — you work abroad, salary in Swiss Francs, but your rent, insurance, and Netflix are all in Euros. What's the real share? And your partner has their own income too. Two salaries, different currencies, one household — and somehow you need to figure out what you can actually spend this month. Oh, and which subscriptions are you even paying for?

Billy: Log your incomes and deductions — Billy calculates your net across multiple currencies with live exchange rates. Open the dashboard: a Sankey diagram traces every cent from gross to what's actually left — subscriptions included.
02

The Bookmark Graveyard

Your browser "Recipes" folder has 200+ bookmarks. Half the links are dead. And grandma's handwritten Gulasch recipe? A photo on your phone, slowly buried under screenshots. You want to cook something nice tonight but spend 20 minutes scrolling through chaos instead. There's no single place for your recipes.

Billy: Paste any recipe URL — AI extracts the recipe. Upload grandma's handwritten card — AI reads it. Everything lands in one searchable library. No dead links. No buried photos.
03

The Receipt Drawer

You come home from shopping, receipt crumpled in your pocket. You tell yourself you'll log it later. You won't. Three months in, you have no idea where 40% of your money went. Manually typing every purchase into a spreadsheet? That's not tracking — that's punishment. So you stop entirely.

Billy: Snap a photo. AI reads the receipt — store, items, amounts, categories. Transaction created. Done. No typing, no spreadsheets, no guilt.
04

The Ingredient Gamble

You work out. You meal-prep. But your prep is basically "chicken, rice, broccoli — repeat." Last Tuesday you improvised something with leftover ingredients and it was actually good. But how many calories? How much protein? You have no idea if your "healthy" day was secretly 3000 kcal of hidden cheese and surprise oil.

Billy: Log your ingredients — Billy calculates the macros. Calories, protein, fat — no guessing. Against all odds it tasted good? Save it as a meal. Reuse it, share it.
05

The Macro Mystery

You know those fancy fitness apps — active days, sedentary job vs. active job, bulk or cut, how many calories and protein you actually need? You've Googled "TDEE calculator" more than once. But the result never connects to what you actually eat. It's just a number floating in the void.

Billy: Enter your activity level, goal, and body stats — Billy calculates your daily targets. Log your meals and watch the calorie ring and macro bars update live. The number finally connects to something real.
Core Concept

Built Around Your Household

Billy isn't just for you — it's for your entire household. Create a home, invite your people, and manage finances and nutrition together.

Create a Household

Set up your home in seconds. Define your currency, set a monthly budget, and start organizing your financial life.

Add Your People

Invite family members or roommates. Assign roles (Owner or Member), manage who sees what, and collaborate on finances and meals.

Two Apps, One Home

Switch between Finance and Fitness with one tap. Shared household data powers both — incomes feed budgets, members get personalized meal portions.

Full Scope

What's Inside

Two apps. One household. Here's everything Billy tracks.

Finance
  • Dashboard Core
  • Household Costs Core
  • Income Management Core
  • Expense Tracking Core
  • AI Receipt Scanner AI
  • Open Banking Integration
Fitness
  • Daily Nutrition Tracker Core
  • Meal Prep & Recipes AI
  • Meal Planning AI
  • Household Portions Core
  • AI Nutrition Enrichment AI
  • Water Tracking Core
Intelligence

AI at the Core

Billy uses AI where it matters — not as a gimmick, but as genuine time-savers that handle the tedious parts of tracking your life.

Receipt OCR — Snap & Extract
Recipe Scraping — URL to Meal
Nutrition Calculation
Meal Plan Generation
Ingredient Standardization
Smart Category Suggestions
Stack

Under the Hood

No over-engineered SPA. Just solid server-rendered views, a real database, and services that do one thing well.

.NET 10
PostgreSQL
Entity Framework Core
Wolverine CQRS
Keycloak
Chart.js
Bootstrap 5
MinIO
SaltEdge
LiteLLM
Flask API
Razor Views
The Builder

One Dev. One Raccoon. Zero Deadlines.

Kaptn Karacho

Software Dev → Manager → It's Complicated

In my daily life, there's always a "Masött" looming around — that's Austrian for "Man sollte noch..." (Someone should really...). People love to plan and suggest solutions, but at the end of the day, that "someone" is usually me. Since my regular days are already packed with complex projects, endless phone calls, and a million moving parts, I wanted to build something small, simple, and straightforward. **Billy** is my way of solving a "solved" problem on my own terms and with my own stack.

It started with a simple mystery: I had no idea where my money went. I love cooking and I train a lot, but then I settled into a happy relationship, discovered what an "early-onset dad bod" looks like, and figured: why not track all of it in one place? It's also the perfect playground to keep my dev muscles from atrophying and to prove that AI can be a serious construction tool, not just a toy.

Why reinvent the wheel? Because sometimes you just want your own set of wheels—complete with specific cupholders, neon lights, and a dashboard that actually makes sense. Plus, I've always preferred building things (and the occasional high-stakes "learning moment" when I break them).

I'm also a pretty approachable guy. If you like this project, have questions, or have some solid advice on surviving a dad bod—get in touch.

   This is a private build & learning project. Not a commercial product. Expect rough edges, experimental features, and a raccoon that judges your spending habits.