BoringBudget — Weekly planner for indie devs' boring tasks
Help indie developers schedule the boring but critical work before motivation runs out
- Problem
- Solo founders and indie developers agree success comes from doing boring work consistently, not just passion projects, yet they neglect bookkeeping, compliance, and follow-ups until something breaks.
- Solution
- A weekly planner that starts with a checklist of recurring boring tasks and frequency, mixes them into the calendar alongside passion-project time, and gives small completion rewards. A weekly summary is generated automatically.
- Users
- Indie developers, solo founders, side-project builders with a full-time job
- MVP
- Preset boring-task library (bookkeeping, tax reminders, client follow-ups, backups, privacy compliance); auto-schedule boring tasks into the week; light check-in and points reward; passion project blocks on the same calendar; weekly summary export
- Revenue
- Free tier plus monthly subscription for stats and templates; affiliate revenue from bookkeeping and compliance services
- Why now
- AI speeds up development and indie builder numbers are exploding, but boring back-office work is still what stalls them; no lightweight tool owns this space yet