SaaS & Dark Pattern tracker
TL;DR
Companies trick people into keeping subscriptions they don't want. I made a web app to track my subscriptions and warn me about these sneaky tricks.
Problem
Counter dirty tricks that makes people keep subscriptions they don't want.
Idea
Subscription tracker that alerts me about known dark patterns and companies' dirty tricks.
Stack

Sveltekit
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Tailwind

PocketBase
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Coolify
Look
What I built
CRUD webapp, with authentication, user stuff, and calendar view.
Not yet done
Probably OCR or natural language processing for greater automation.
Takeaway
- It wasn't a big enough problem tbh. I didn't lose enough money to make this worth using much.
- This needs integration into the SaaS products, else the additional effort is only worth it if you save a lot of
money
- It was fun to build a calendar from scratch, I enjoyed the result of not using external libraries for
everything.
- I enjoyed the simplicity of having everything backend from Pocketbase, but I absolutely dislike bcrypt's delay
and just overall sluggish feel as a user.