About Me

Hi, I’m Tim.

By day, I’m a security engineer. I work from home, spend a lot of time building systems, and like figuring out how things work.

A few years ago, I noticed something interesting: getting a good deal online wasn’t actually that hard.

It started with a couple of credit cards that earned 5% cash back at stores I already used. Then I discovered cashback portals. Then loyalty programs. Then statement credits. Before long, I realized that with a little patience and some planning, it wasn’t unusual to save 20–30% off retail.

Sometimes even more.

The problem wasn’t finding opportunities. The problem was keeping track of them.

I tried apps that claimed to track card benefits, but many were incomplete, outdated, or just plain wrong. So I started building my own tracking system. First it was notes. Then spreadsheets. Then a giant matrix showing which card was best for which purchase.

At one point I even printed the matrix and kept it on my desk. That worked until my one-year-old son discovered paper was edible and ate part of my December Uber credit tracker.

As my collection of cards, benefits, portals, and offers grew, keeping everything straight by hand became impossible.

So I did what any computer guy would do: I started building software to solve the problem.

What began as a personal project eventually became CashbackingApp.

Most people don’t want to spend hours comparing cards, digging through portal rates, tracking credits, and figuring out whether a deal is actually good. I don’t blame them. That’s exactly why I built the tools I wished existed.

Today CashbackingApp helps people compare rewards, track benefits, build better stacks, and make smarter purchasing decisions without needing a dozen spreadsheets.

I’m not a venture-backed startup. There’s no big company behind this. It’s just a project built by someone who enjoys solving problems and sharing useful tools with other people.

If CashbackingApp helps you save money, find a better deal, or avoid overpaying, then it’s doing exactly what I hoped it would do.

And if you find it useful, tell a friend. That’s how projects like this grow.