Tired of wasting money on forgotten subscriptions, a developer with ADHD built CentryAI—a smart tool to scan and cancel unwanted services in one tap.
Ever stared at your bank statement, saw a random recurring charge, and whispered, "What in the legacy database is this?" only to realize you’ve been paying for a SaaS you haven't opened in six months?
Emre, a developer with ADHD, realized he was paying for 11—yes, eleven—active subscriptions he hadn't touched in months. In the ADHD world, "out of sight, out of mind" is a very expensive reality. Instead of accepting this financial bleeding as fate, he built CentryAI to automate the hunt.
Unlike traditional personal finance apps that lazily force you to manually type in every transaction or demand scary bank-linking permissions, CentryAI takes a pragmatic shortcut:
The product launched with solid momentum, pulling in nearly 200 upvotes, but the dev community on Product Hunt didn't just blindly click upvote—they brought out the magnifying glasses.
Some users immediately shared the pain: "I literally just canceled my Leetcode sub after months of blind pay." (We've all been there, coding interview prep is temporary, but the sub is eternal). One supportive hunter even generated a free white-labeled promotional video for the launch because the author forgot to upload one.
But of course, tech-savvy users started digging into the architecture:
Dark UX is a real business model. Companies constantly move, rename, and hide their cancellation pages. How does CentryAI prevent its database from rotting?
Emre explained their robust 3-layer hybrid defense:
Scanning emails is a massive trust barrier. Users rightfully demanded to know: does my email get shipped to some sketchy server?
The creator cleared the air: The parsing is handled server-side using an in-memory processor on a secure cloud VPS, meaning emails are read but never written to disk or stored. Only the confirmed metadata (service name, price, renewal date) gets saved. To back up this claim, CentryAI passed Google's stringent CASA Tier 2 security audit. For iCloud, it uses app-specific passwords stored locally in the device's Keychain.
Among all the technical debates, one user dropped a hilarious truth bomb: "So it wants me to pay a subscription to manage my subscriptions??" Classic capitalism.
CentryAI is a brilliant example of pragmatic product design for all aspiring Indie Hackers out there:
How many forgotten subs are eating away at your paycheck right now? Time to audit your inbox before your next cloud server bill hits!
Source: Product Hunt
