Effortless expense tracking for student side hustles, auto-categorized for taxes.
College students running side hustles are overwhelmed by manually tracking and categorizing expenses for tax purposes without affordable accounting tools.
Students snap photos of receipts or forward emails, and AI instantly categorizes expenses into tax-ready buckets like mileage, supplies, or ads. Generates IRS-compliant reports and reminders for quarterly filings. Affordable and dead simple—no accounting degree required.
College students running side hustles
AI-powered OCR tailored to common student side hustles (e.g., DoorDash gas, Etsy crafts) with 95% auto-categorization accuracy.
friendly/supportive
AI OCR extracts and categorizes expense data from photos.
Classifies into tax categories like business meals, home office.
One-click PDF/CSV exports for Schedule C.
Visual overview with charts for monthly spending.
Email/SMS alerts for filing deadlines.
GPS-based auto-logging for gig driving.
CSV upload for past expenses.
Export links for accountants.
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| hustle_type | text | No |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| profile_id | uuid | No |
| amount | int | No |
| category | text | No |
| date | timestamp | No |
| receipt_url | text | Yes |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
| tax_deductible | bool | No |
| hustle_type | text | No |
/api/expensesUpload and categorize receipt
/api/expensesFetch user expenses
/api/reportsGenerate tax report
/api/categoriesList categories for hustle type
/api/remindersSet tax reminders
No exports
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 200 | 2% | $20 | $240 |
| Month 6 | 1,500 | 4% | $300 | $3,600 |
AI turns receipts into tax-ready reports. Built for busy college hustlers.
Post in college subreddits like r/Entrepreneur, r/sidehustle with a free beta invite; DM student influencers on TikTok running hustles; offer free lifetime access to first 10 signups from university Discord servers.
Bank sync
Overkill for tiny hustles, expensive
Student-priced AI OCR, hustle-specific cats
Free basic
Manual entry heavy, no AI
Auto everything for speed
Proprietary AI model trained on student hustle data for superior categorization accuracy.
Gig economy boom among Gen Z + AI OCR maturity makes auto-tracking viable at low cost.
AI OCR accuracy issues
Fallback manual edit + user feedback loop
Low awareness of tax needs
Educational content in app/onboarding
Slow user growth
Pre-launch waitlist via Reddit
Success: 50+ responses confirming need
Success: 80% retention week 1
Success: 500 signups
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