Niche-Knack — precision tools for narrow problems

I'm one engineer in Ohio building focused, private software for people who enjoy understanding their systems. These two money tools share four interfaces—from cozy journal to cockpit HUD—and each is sold once.

Neither one is out yet. No store listing is open and there is no checkout, so every buy button and store badge on this site is switched off until there is something real behind it.

Money

Pocket Nerd

Your spending HUD, with side quests.

A gamer-minded spending sidekick: see what today leaves for tomorrow, pick the interface that suits you, and let a risk-weighted game break the tie when a purchase has you stuck. Four themes and four games turn a daily spending check into something you may actually want to open, while the budget math stays honest.

Today's Runway $61 set once a day — it doesn't move
Spent 0 today; tomorrow opens at 67; good zone
$0 spent today
$115 more stays good
tomorrow opens at $67

LedgerKeep

Real double-entry books. Debts as boss fights.

Plain-text double-entry bookkeeping with an honest game layer on top: every debt is a boss whose HP is its actual balance, and a readiness sheet that prints “unrated” rather than guess at a number it cannot compute. The desktop is the command center; Android is the field kit.

2026/09/01 * Kroger
    Expenses:Groceries        $84.12
    Assets:Checking

2026/09/03 * Paycheck
    Assets:Checking        $2,140.00
    Income:Salary
Your books.ledgeran open standard, readable anywhere
SyncYour Wi-Fiphone ⇄ desktop, with history

The rule I built them to: Pocket Nerd owns “what can I spend today”. LedgerKeep owns the books. One runs the session between paydays; the other keeps the campaign history. Each works alone, and a finished Pocket Nerd period can be handed to LedgerKeep rather than typed in twice.

How this works

You buy a thing once and it is yours to use. No account, no subscription, no telemetry, and nothing phones home. Your data lives in files you can read without me — which is the part I would want if I were you.

The prices, the licence and the refund terms are all written down: the questions people actually ask · licence, privacy and refunds.