What If Tracking Money Felt As Easy As Sending a Message?

Divesh Sankhla — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:15:10 +0000

Most finance apps still feel surprisingly complicated.

Open the app.
Tap “Add Expense.”
Choose a category.
Select a payment method.
Add notes.
Save.

It works — but it never feels natural.

And after a few days, most people stop using these apps consistently.

For a long time, I thought expense tracking was a discipline problem.

But the more I explored productivity systems, automation and user workflows, the more I realized something:

It’s often a friction problem.

We already communicate naturally through messages.
We send quick updates instantly.
We interact with AI conversationally every day.

So I kept asking myself:

What if tracking money felt as easy as sending a message?

That question eventually became the foundation for something I’ve been building called Vitmora.

The idea behind Vitmora is simple:
reduce friction between people and financial tracking.

Not by adding more complexity —
but by making the experience feel faster, cleaner and more intuitive.

I’ve been especially interested in how conversational workflows and AI-assisted systems can improve everyday financial interactions.

Because honestly, most personal finance tools today still feel like traditional forms wrapped inside modern UI design.

They may look better visually, but the underlying experience often hasn’t changed much.

While building Vitmora, I started thinking less about “features” and more about user behavior.

Why do people abandon finance apps?

Why does consistency break?

Why do manual workflows feel exhausting over time?

I think a big part of the answer is cognitive load.

The more steps required to log or organize information, the harder it becomes to maintain the habit long term.

That’s where conversational input, automation and smarter workflows become interesting.

Instead of forcing users to adapt to rigid systems, software should adapt better to how people naturally think and communicate.

From a technical side, I’ve also been experimenting with modular architectures using Flask, PostgreSQL and workflow-driven structures while exploring how AI can improve categorization, organization and financial insights.

Still early.
Still learning.
Still building.

One thing I genuinely enjoy about building in public is hearing how other developers, founders and builders think about these problems.

There’s a lot happening right now at the intersection of:

AI
productivity
finance
automation
conversational interfaces

And I think we’re only at the beginning.

If you’re working on similar ideas — or if you’ve thought about how finance apps could feel more natural — I’d genuinely love to hear your perspective.

Currently building at:
https://vitmora.com

Curious:
If you could redesign personal finance apps from scratch today, what would you change first?

Forem: Divesh Sankhla

What If Tracking Money Felt As Easy As Sending a Message?