Riska

My last two jobs were mostly B2B and internal tools, so I haven't been exercising the creative side much. Most of the UI was forms. Don't get me wrong, the systems thinking gave me headaches and really built that muscle. The visual one just got softer.

So these personal projects are where it gets reps. Some solve a problem I couldn't find a fix for in other software. Some I built just to play around. It's not that serious.

Life, Sorted

An app to organize my life: clothes inventory, a reading log, life calendar & weekly reflection notes.

Clothes-tracking app:inventory list of tops — I used to do this in Notion. It worked, it just didn't have the visuals I wanted.

A log of the books I've read, plus what I thought of each one.

Goodreads does this too, I just don't want my reviews out in public.

This is my life in weeks. I flag the ones with travel and the ones worth remembering, set intentions for the quarter, and leave a short reflection each week. I've tried other apps for this, but a tracking app has to fit the way your own head works, and none of them ever quite did.

Life-sorting app:quarterly intentions screen with sticky notes — Based on Tim Urban's life calendar. The Health, Work, Play, Love split comes from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

Life-sorting app:weekly reflection with quarter-tied check-ins — Based on Tim Urban's life calendar. The Health, Work, Play, Love split comes from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

Money HQ

I'm not a Singapore citizen but became a PR a few years back. So I don't know much about SG financial terms like CPF and the rest. I built this to track the big goals (house, retirement, kid's education) with SG context and PR rules in mind.

MOCK NUMBERS

Slider for the target year to put the house down payment, and the cash vs CPF split. There's another calculator input not shown.

All the Singapore-specific rules (CPF tiers, BTO eligibility, MOP) are editable.

MOCK NUMBERS

Slider for how much CPF is left for retirement after housing.

Beside the goals, I use this for net worth tracking and budget planning. Just the planning, since I already use YNAB for actual transactions. The budget side is also where I test adjustments. Like, can we still afford the next vacation given our current income.

Money HQ check-in — Plan vs actual variance table mapped from YNAB — Pulling data from YNAB and comparing it against the plan so I know whether to adjust next month. YNAB doesn't do this part.

Energy Availability Tracker

In 2025 I was lifting and training for a half marathon, and my period got irregular. I didn't lose any weight so I thought I was eating enough. I saw a sports dietitian at the time and we suspected the irregularity was from low energy availability (LEA). I was underfueling without realizing it.

So I built this. It pulls workout data from Apple Health Kit along with my daily MacroFactor nutrition log, then calculates EA. The number won't be 100% accurate because fitness trackers can't measure calorie burn precisely, but I want to find a correlation, a pattern, and a nudge to eat more when I have a performance goal.

EA tracker — today's energy availability dashboard with intake/workout breakdown — Looking for what correlates with my period irregularity.

EA tracker — cycle pattern view comparing regular vs irregular cycle metrics — Looking for what correlates with my period irregularity.

Bunny Bank

App requested by my kid. Design direction by him (7 years old). It motivates him to save and be more mindful with spending.

Bunny Bank — transaction history with allowance and reward entries — He's obsessed with Jellycat bunny.