Christian Helvin

Most side projects don't fail.

They drift and fade away.

Momentum is everything - keep shipping, learning, and sharing.

Your best ideas only live through relentless execution.

#buildinpublic

I think a big key to vibe coding is realizing it's not taking a back seat on how the code should be:

- organized
- secured
- tech used
- design
- refactored
- optimized

The best vibe code I'm seeing is by those who understand what good code is (and isn't). Aka experienced engineers.

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So true! Especially when it inadvertently decides to refactor the parts that didn’t need refactoring 🤣

The startup workflow:

Build > talk to ppl > refine

Repeat forever.

AirPod’s conversation awareness is amazing!… unless you talk to yourself 🤣

Oh my! Total nostalgia unlocked!

"A" makes it clear to me those options are directly related to TurboStarter.

What types of investments would you be looking to see?

Instead of AI replacing software engineers it will be software engineers with AI replacing everyone else.

Makes perfect sense. Thanks for humoring me as well. I will always swear by the calculator I keep on my desk haha

Do you ever look for opportunity to play with different financial scenarios?

I get that! Honestly, all I’ve ever trusted was a spreadsheet too, until I built one that spreadsheets for me and lets me plan different scenarios without screwing up my ledger.
Definitely more of a planning partner. Out of curiosity, what’s the hardest part of managing money in Excel for you?

lololol

Now that’s a game I want to play!

I never realized how much algorithmic math was used for game dev until I built my first one 🤣

Hoping you can get back to the graphic parts soon! 🤞

I'm curious. Have you ever tried a budgeting tool that just didn’t work for you? What was missing? What’s been the biggest struggle in planning your financial future?

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I realized what was missing! A true financial forecasting tool that:

✅ Shows how my money moves over time
✅ Views money the same way I do in my business
✅ Flags when interest is about to start or get out of control
✅ Helps me actually plan big purchases & debt payoff

So… I built it.

I tried all the best personal finance tools.

They tracked my spending.
They gave me graphs.
They told me I was on track!

But they never actually helped me change anything. I needed a way to see the future of my money, not just the present.

Budgeting apps always told me I was 'doing fine'. Meanwhile…

💰 Debt wasn’t budging.
📉 Interest was stacking up.
🚫 Savings? What savings?

I felt like I was just surviving and never getting ahead. Sound familiar?

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Feels fitting that my first BlueSky post is about something I’ve obsessed over for a long time: financial forecasting.

I got sick of not knowing if I’d ever get ahead, so I built a tool that actually helps plan your future... not just your budget. Story time for #buildinpublic 🧵

Totally agree! LLM’s for sure have their differences. But it’s more in the ability to prompt them well that provides good outputs.

Unless I've fully validated an idea, I now go with .com's. I've wasted so much money buying .ai's for initial ideas 🤣

If only more people thought founder mode included terraforming 😂
Respect.

Having the native apps for ChatGPT, I'm finding it hard not to keep coming back to it.