Product / web app
PacePot
A free savings goal calculator that tells you how much to put aside each month. No bank connection, no account, no nonsense. I own every part of it: product decisions, design, build, and the domain it lives on.
The brief
Most savings calculators are a form on a finance blog, built to capture leads rather than help. PacePot needed to feel like a product: fast, private, and useful within the first thirty seconds.
The audience is anyone saving for something specific, a holiday, a car, an emergency fund, who wants a clear monthly number instead of a spreadsheet.
What I built
- Goal calculator with monthly pace, timeline, and progress tracking
- Savings pots for organising multiple goals at once
- A guided tour for first-time users
- A Save List that keeps plans between visits, stored on the device
- Everything runs in the browser: no sign-up, data stays local
Design decisions
Trust drives everything in a money tool, so the design leads with the free, no sign-up, data-stays-local promise before asking the user to do anything.
Numbers get tabular treatment so totals do not jitter as you type, and the mobile layout was designed first because saving plans happen on phones.