It started because I needed it myself. I get an allowance, and I was tired of losing track of where it actually went — I'd have money one week and no idea what happened to it the next. Every budgeting app I tried was built for adults with paychecks and mortgages, not for someone trying to figure out if they can afford new headphones after buying lunch three times this week.
So I built my own. Pocket started as something just for me — a simple way to log what I spent, watch my savings actually grow, and prove to myself (and my parents) that I could handle my own money responsibly. Once it started working for me, I realized every teen with an allowance or a part-time job probably needed the same thing.
That's the whole idea behind Pocket: it's not a stripped-down version of a grown-up finance app. It's built from the ground up around how teens actually think about money — tracking spending in seconds, setting your own limits, watching your savings climb, and optionally looping in a parent so they can see you're handling it, without them having to control it.
I'm still using Pocket every day for my own budget, and I'm still building it — adding the features I wish I had, fixing the things that bug me, and trying to make it the app I needed when I started.