u/LawyerLongjumping279

My wife got her cochlear implant for single-sided deafness less than a year ago. She wears it all day, and has had continuous improvement in a number of areas, but some difficulty listening to books directly into her cochlear ear. Here is her question. She posted this yesterday on her FaceBook group without any response. "I have single-sided deafness and love my improved hearing with a Cochlear Implant. However, it’s really difficult to have true binaural hearing when one ear is hearing acoustically and the other is hearing electronically. I am thinking especially of when I listen to audiobooks or stream media. I either stream through my Cochlear implant while reading the book (though it is sometimes difficult to find both a print copy and an audiobook at the same time) or watch tv w captions — or listen in my hearing ear with an AirPod (while walking outside or?) Can anyone recommend a good set of over the ear headphones to mitigate this problem? Does your hearing seem more binaural?". Her cochlear is by Cochlear America, Model Nucleas 8, over the ear. She uses the TV streaner regularly with subtitles.

After a career writing software, I retired and built the tool I wanted for reviewing my own family's finances: StatementLock (statementlock.com).

The premise: you shouldn't have to hand an app your bank login to understand your spending. You download PDF statements from your bank yourself and drop them in. The PDF is parsed in your browser, your transaction data lives in a local folder on your own computer, and only de-identified text goes to the AI — which extracts the transactions and writes the analysis. Categories are assigned locally by rules and patterns you control, not by the AI. I never see your statements — I literally have nowhere to store them.

What it does: extracts every transaction, categorizes spending (locally, via rules and patterns you control), finds recurring charges, flags anomalies worth a second look, and builds reports. Works with US bank and credit card statement PDFs from most major issuers (coverage is expanding — when it doesn't recognize an issuer, it now says so honestly instead of guessing).

The build: Next.js, Clerk, Stripe, Claude API for the analysis. Solo, no funding, no plans to raise. $5.99/mo or $47.88/yr because every analysis costs me real API money. 30-day trial, no credit card required.

If you want to poke at it without signing up, there's a live no-signup demo with sample data: statementlock.com/demo. Click take "the guided tour" top left. When that's finished click through the different tabs, and especially view the AI analysis report under the Insights tab.

Happy to answer anything about the local-first architecture, the economics of AI API costs in a cheap subscription, or what it's like shipping a SaaS solo in retirement. Community at r/StatementLock if you want to follow along.