Rich & Friends
Background
Rich & Friends is a web app for people who want to change their life and build financial freedom, together. You set the things you said you would do, saving, learning a language, launching a project, and a small circle of friends holds you to it.
It speaks French first, because that is what most of the people it was made for actually speak, and English second. It lives at richandfriends.xyz and installs on a phone like a native app.
Core problem
Goals die alone. Budgeting apps are cold spreadsheets, habit apps are solo streaks, and neither of them knows your friends. Rich & Friends needed to feel like a group chat with a purpose: warm, quick, a little playful, and honest about money.
Our Process
I started from the feeling before the screens: discipline, but shared. The visual language is a bold pink wordmark, big rounded type and generous white space, with two colour themes (sun and sea) so it never looks like a bank.
Then the product itself, page by page: a landing page that explains the movement in one scroll, a sign-in flow with a one-time code by email so nobody has to remember a password, and the daily check-in that is the heart of the app.
What I built
01 - Landing and positioning
A one-page story in French and English, with link previews that read well when the URL is pasted into a group chat, which is how the app actually spreads.
02 - Check-ins that come to you
Every evening a short email opens the check-in for what you said you would do. It takes under a minute and it keeps the streak honest.
03 - Shared projects
A group can run a project with its own currency, say what still has to be paid, and anyone can press Pay. The owner keeps control of the transactions.
04 - Installable, fast, private
Built as a progressive web app on React with Supabase behind it: it installs from the browser, loads instantly and your budget stays yours.
Key Deliverables
- Brand and visual identity (wordmark, colour themes, type)
- Bilingual landing page with social previews
- Email sign-in and daily check-in flow
- Shared projects with transactions and reminders
- Progressive web app, deployed on Vercel
Results and Impact
Rich & Friends is live and used every day by its first circles. It is the proof that a money app can feel like friendship instead of homework.
Next up: more studies content, richer project pages and the English version of everything.