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Designing a Money App for Every Kind of Mind
Autism shaped WinnowFi's mission — but it also shaped the product. How predictability, low cognitive load, and the curb-cut effect drive the way we build.
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Annual vs. Monthly Billing: The Real Math of Prepaying for a Year
"Save 17% with annual billing" sounds like free money — until you stop using the service in month five. The break-even arithmetic, when prepaying wins, and when it quietly costs you.
The $20 Tier: How AI Assistants Quietly Doubled the Price of Software
For a decade, $9.99 was the default price of a digital subscription. Then AI chatbots arrived at $20 — and three-digit 'pro' tiers stopped sounding absurd. What the new price anchors mean for your budget.
The 15-Minute WinnowFi Setup: From Sign-Up to a Clean Subscription List
A practical walkthrough of your first session: what to connect, what to confirm, what to dismiss — and the one thing you won't find in the app, on purpose.
Our Numbers, Honestly: Why You Won't See "95% Accuracy" on Our Website
We're a new product. We don't have thousands of users yet, so we won't pretend we do. Here's our public commitment about which numbers we publish, which we don't, and when that will change.
Why I Named It WinnowFi: A Thousand-Year-Old Verb for a Modern Problem
"To winnow" is the ancient act of throwing grain into the wind so the chaff blows away and only the grain remains. Here's why I built a subscription tracker around an Old English farming word.
The $273-a-Month Problem: How Subscription Fatigue Is Draining Americans
The average American household now pays for 12 subscriptions — yet can only remember 7. That invisible gap costs real money every single month.
How AI Reads Your Bank Statements to Find Hidden Subscriptions
Not all recurring charges look the same. Here's the pattern-matching logic behind WinnowFi's auto-detection engine — and why it catches what spreadsheets miss.
10 Subscriptions You've Probably Forgotten About (And How to Cancel Each)
From that meditation app you used for two weeks to the newspaper you signed up for during an election — here are the most commonly forgotten subscriptions, with exact cancellation steps.
Netflix Raised Prices 5 Times in 6 Years. You're Not Imagining It.
Subscription inflation is real and it's outpacing the CPI. A look at the numbers behind the streaming price wars — and what it means for your budget.
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