# Mubin - poor but broke...

> poor but broke... is an experimental suite of poor startups that Mubin is building while being a broke ass. Made on a budget. Shipped publicly with grit and humor.

Mubin is a self-taught builder, visual designer, and indie creator creating poor but broke... an ecosystem of experimental startups, productivity apps, and design projects built with AI agents, agentic coding workflows, and pure survival energy. Not a traditional programmer. Documents the process raw as he figures things out while broke.

## Social & Direct Contact

- Email: mubin@poorbutbroke.com
- Social Media: @poorbutbroke (across all platforms)

## The poor but broke... Concept

poor but broke... is Mubin's suite of experimental startups built while being broke. It's a heroic, self-deprecating, and humorous take on building indie products without funding, corporate jargon, or permission.

Core Principles:

01. Build the thing. Not a course about the thing.
02. Break it twice before you really get it.
03. Teach it raw while it's fresh. Confusion is the lesson.
04. No gatekeeping. If a broke ass can figure it out, so can you.

## Personal Apps & Startups Built

All apps built using AI agents and agentic coding workflows on top of Figma designs:

- Meowmi: Retro Game Boy inspired coloring app for premade designs. Built for Mubin's sister to color her doll images.
- Somehow FCKED: Multi-currency money manager with detailed UI design. A fun way to track how fcked you're getting financially.
- Money Gone: Telegram bot for expense tracking via natural language. Tell the bot what you spent, it logs it instantly.
- Lemme See: Windows native time-tracking app. Lightweight (15-30MB RAM, under 50MB file size).
- PlsDoIt: Task manager designed for ADHD brains with analytics and anti-forgetting workflows.

Plus 50+ private GitHub repositories with additional experimental apps, tools, and internal utilities.

## Voice and Tone

- Lowercase by default
- Direct, second-person, casual, heroic humor
- Profanity-tolerant ("fcked", "broke ass", "shit" acceptable in copy)
- Anti-corporate language: avoids "leverage," "synergize," "seamless," "transform your business"
- Self-deprecating about being non-traditional and non-programmer
- Pro-self-taught learning and building in public

## Tech Stack

- Framework: Astro 5
- Styling: Tailwind CSS v4
- Smooth scroll: Lenis
- Animations: Motion
- Hosting: Cloudflare Pages