I've been building Money Me for a while now — a personal finance app that tracks spending, income, budgets, and savings goals. Nothing groundbreaking, just trying to do the basics properly without the bloat.
The web app has been live at money-me.com for a while and it works well. So I figured wrapping it as an Android app would be the easy part. Built it as a TWA (Trusted Web Activity) — basically the PWA packaged natively. Same app, proper home screen icon, runs in Chrome under the hood.
Turns out shipping to Google Play is where it gets interesting.
Google requires 12 people opted into your closed beta for 14 consecutive days before they'll let you publish to production. Makes total sense as a policy — stops junk apps flooding the store. But when you're a solo dev with no audience yet, finding 12 people who'll install your app and keep it installed for two weeks is a genuine challenge.
So here I am, asking the dev community for help.
What Money Me does
- Track income and expenses manually (no bank sync — privacy first)
- Set monthly budgets and see where you're overspending
- Create savings goals and track progress
- Monthly overview that actually tells you something useful
The ask
If you've got an Android phone and don't mind keeping the app installed for a couple of weeks, I'd massively appreciate it. The opt-in takes about 30 seconds:
👉 play.google.com/apps/testing/com.moneyme.twa
You can also try the web version first at money-me.com — it's the exact same app.
Every tester gets 6 months of Premium free once we launch to production.
And if you're building something too — drop your link in the comments. Happy to swap tests. We've all been stuck behind this gate at some point.
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