01Independent Software & Digital Products
Ideas into software.
A digital lab where ideas grow into useful software, tools and experiments.
02Featured product
NEO LABS / Budgetplanner
Budgetplanner
ActivePersonal finance without spreadsheet chaos.
A clear and flexible way to track income and expenses, plan budgets and understand where your money actually goes.
- Financial overview
- Income and expenses
- Categories
- Budgets
Built for everyday finances rather than complicated accounting.
Currently available in German.
Preview · Sample data
- Income
- CHF 6’400
- Expenses
- CHF 4’615
- Remaining
- CHF 1’785
Categories
- Housing42%CHF 1’950
- Groceries16%CHF 720
- Other15%CHF 700
- Insurance10%CHF 465
- Leisure8%CHF 380
- Transport7%CHF 310
- Subscriptions2%CHF 90
03The Lab
Not every idea needs to become a product.
Some ideas solve a specific problem. Some become small tools. Some are simply worth exploring. The Lab is where experiments, prototypes and new approaches can grow without every idea needing to become a finished product.
Explore the Lab- Experiment 001Experimental
AI Expense Classification
How reliably can everyday financial transactions be assigned to meaningful categories automatically?
- Source:
- private
- Related product:
- Budgetplanner
- Experiment 002Prototype
Receipt OCR
- Source:
- private
- Related product:
- Budgetplanner
- Experiment 003Exploring
Self-hosted Services
- Source:
- private
04Behind the Lab
Build. Understand. Improve.
NEO LABS is my space for software, ideas and technical experiments. It grew from a simple motivation: building things myself, understanding how systems really work and finding better solutions to everyday problems.
Some projects become complete products. Others deliberately remain experiments. Both matter.
It is about creating things that are thoughtful, understandable and genuinely useful.
More about NEO LABS
05Technology
Modern technology. Sensible choices.
Technology should support the product, not become the product.
- Website
- Next.js 16.3.6 · React 19.3 · TypeScript (strict) · Tailwind CSS 4.3.3
- Current
- Runtime
- Docker · multi-stage production image
- Current
- Proxy
- Nginx · TLS termination and host routing
- Planned
- Data
- PostgreSQL · for products that need persistence
- Planned
- Hosting
- Linux · self-hosted
- Planned
The stack can change. The principles should not.
06Contact
LET’S BUILD SOMETHING.
Have an idea, a question or simply want to say hi? I’m always interested in interesting problems, useful software and new possibilities.
Get in touch