A story from the workbench

Built the hard way

How Finance Tracker earned its speed — one honest fix at a time

Lyvorian Studio's whole philosophy fits in one sentence: one product at a time, finished carefully enough that it doesn't need an excuse. That sounds nice on a landing page. Here's what it actually looks like in practice.

The app felt heavy — so I measured instead of guessing

During Android testing, Finance Tracker felt warm in the hand. Not broken — just working harder than a budgeting app has any right to. The easy path is to shrug: it's a web-based app in a native shell, they're always like that. The hard path is to profile it on a real phone and find out exactly where every cycle goes. I took the hard path.

Finding #1 — the invisible blur that nobody could see

The app's header and bottom navigation both used a fashionable frosted-glass blur effect. Both sat on backgrounds that were already 95%+ opaque — meaning the blur was completely invisible. But the GPU didn't know that: because both bars float over scrolling content, it dutifully re-blurred everything behind them on every single frame.

Removing two lines of decorative CSS — a blur nobody could see — brought the app's CPU and GPU work down sharply on a real Galaxy S10+, and took the dropped frames with it.

Finding #2 — the beautiful chart nobody needed

The login screen had a live animated candlestick chart. It looked great in screenshots. It also redrew itself continuously — allocating a fresh gradient for every candle on every frame — and kept a CPU core busy while doing absolutely nothing useful. Left idle long enough, it once froze the app entirely.

It also sent the wrong message. Finance Tracker is for all of your money — salary, groceries, bills, goals — not a trading terminal. So the chart didn't get optimised. It got deleted, and the login screen got lighter, calmer, and more honest about what the app is.

Shipping less, deliberately, is still the fastest performance optimisation ever invented.

Why this is the whole brand

Neither fix required genius. They required looking — profiling on a real device, reading the numbers, and being willing to delete something pretty. That's what "built by hand" means here: not artisanal mystique, just daily use of my own product and a refusal to ship something that quietly wastes your battery.

There are four products now. Finance Tracker, № 1, is live on the web today and on the Google Play Store. Habit Kramedha, № 2, is built and in testing. Fylunor, № 3, a document workspace that keeps your files on your own device, is still in build. Medhakeli, № 4, a learning game for children that needs no account and no network, is complete and in testing too.

None of them ships until it holds up on a real phone that isn't the development machine. That is the only rule here — measure it, fix it or delete it, and don't put it in front of anyone until it earns the space. The whole list is on the products page.