Snap receipt photos to auto-log expenses—no typing required for busy solos
Solo founders waste hours weekly on manual bookkeeping and expense tracking, struggling to reconcile bank statements without affordable software.
Use your phone to photograph receipts; OCR extracts data, AI categorizes and adds to your ledger instantly. Reconcile with bank uploads and get visual expense tracking. Perfect for on-the-go founders ditching manual entry.
Solo founders running single-person startups or businesses
Mobile-first OCR + AI for receipts, optimized for solo founder categories like SaaS subs and travel
supportive
Mobile-optimized camera upload with OCR extraction
Auto-categorize from receipt text using OpenAI
Central log with search and filters
Link receipts to bank CSV uploads
Charts for spending by category/vendor
Auto-group by vendor
Cloud storage with search
Export shareable links
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | No | |
| phone_verified | bool | No |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| amount | int | No |
| vendor | text | Yes |
| category | text | Yes |
| date | timestamp | No |
| receipt_url | text | Yes |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| csv_data | text | No |
Relationships:
/api/receipt-uploadOCR process photo and categorize
/api/expensesList user expenses
/api/expenses/:id/match-bankLink to bank transaction
/api/dashboard-dataAggregated charts
/api/categoriesUpsert custom category
No reconciliation
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 120 | 3% | $36 | $432 |
| Month 6 | 900 | 6% | $540 | $6,480 |
Turn receipt photos into organized books with OCR + AI. Reconcile effortlessly.
Share MVP video on r/Entrepreneur and r/smallbusiness, target solo founders via Twitter search for 'receipt tracking pain', free Pro for video testimonials.
Receipt scan
Enterprise focus, per-receipt fees
Unlimited flat $10, solo-optimized
OCR accuracy
Mail-in heavy, not digital-first
Pure mobile snap + AI ledger
User-generated receipt data improves OCR/AI over time exclusively for solos
Smartphone cameras + AI OCR costs plummeted, aligning with remote solo boom
OCR errors on blurry photos
Quality checks + manual edit
Mobile PWA adoption slow
Responsive web first
Success: 100 signups
Success: 70% weekly active
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