Personal tracker (the pantry bean tracker): what to build it with and what it costs
Track things you own or do, like the beans in your pantry, with a list per person and a reminder when you're running low.
Sample PRD
- Sign in
- A list of items with quantities and dates
- A running-low reminder by email
What it needs
- Email and password sign-in: each person keeps their own list
- Transactional email (nice to have): a running-low reminder
MVP: about 5 users, $0/mo
Someone with an idea or a solo founder. Built with an AI app builder: describe it and it builds and hosts it.
| What | Pick | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| AI coding agent | Base44 Starter | $16 |
| Mailgun Free | $0 |
Growth: about 2,000 users, $4.14/mo
A funded team or one with traction. Built with an AI coding agent for each of about 3 developers.
- Error tracking: know when something breaks
- Daily backups: daily backups once real people depend on it
| What | Pick | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| AI coding agent | Augment Code Standard | $20 |
| Hosting | Fly.io Machine, shared-cpu-1x with 256MB RAM | $3.79 |
| Database | Neon Launch | $0.35 |
| Sign-in | Auth0 Free | $0 |
| Mailgun Free | $0 |
First cost jump: Mailgun: Free limits reached, upgrade to Basic
Scale: about 50,000 users, $64.84/mo
An established product. Built with an AI coding agent with team billing and admin for about 10 developers.
- Error tracking: know when something breaks
- Daily backups: daily backups
- Point-in-time recovery: restore to any minute after a bad deploy
- Multi-factor authentication: two-factor sign-in for accounts worth stealing
| What | Pick | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| AI coding agent | Augment Code Standard | $20 |
| Hosting | Fly.io Machine, shared-cpu-1x with 256MB RAM | $42.19 |
| Database | DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Single node (1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM, 10 GiB disk) | $15.15 |
| Sign-in | WorkOS AuthKit | $0 |
| Amazon SES A la carte | $7.50 |
First cost jump: DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL: Single node (1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM, 10 GiB disk) limits reached, upgrade to Single node (1 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 30 GiB disk)
What drives the cost
- Usually free tiers at small scale
- Reminder emails as users grow
Lock-in
Low: simple data you can export.
Use this in Claude (with Kong Reviews connected at https://kongreviews.com/mcp)

