Gaia
Hours &
Expenses

A friend works part-time at a restaurant / organic grocery store. Every day she logged clock-in and clock-out times in her phone's Notes app, and jotted down whatever she bought in-store, so at month's end she could work out hours worked minus store spending to reach her final paycheck. Confusing, tedious, easy to get wrong.
In a single afternoon I built her an on-brand webapp to replace all of it.

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Industry

Restaurant & Organic Grocery

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Year

2026

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Services

Web App

Supabase DB

Multilingual

Strategy

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From messy notes to one clear flow

She opens the app and the day is filled in automatically. She picks the time she clocked in and out, hits save shift, and that's it. Every day of the month is stored, so her total hours are always up to date, with no manual math.

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Hours minus spending = the real paycheck

She logs each grocery purchase the same easy way. A final summary does the calculation for her: hours worked × hourly rate, minus in-store spending = the final paycheck. Now imagine 10+ people each doing this by hand in a notes app. This removes all of it.

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A real product in one afternoon

Built with Ship Studio and backed by a Supabase database so the whole team can use it, multilingual, and styled on-brand with the store's website. If I had to do all of this by hand… how many weeks would it be?

Results

Gaia app home: the brand, a PT/EN language toggle, Spent this month, and a New purchase form.
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