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Incredible story from the ones who own their platform and how they evolved during time.
an invoice can be a small gob of digital (or if printed, ink on paper) text. it can be emailed. it can be generated from a template by a tiny shell script. feels like an easily solved problem for many decades now. its hard only if we want it to be.
and no AI needed, youngsters
time tracking, payroll and invoicing software is ridiculously overpriced
really eats into margins for what should be simple
that being said, I can also see that the market can bear it
there is still room for undercutting competitors or rolling it out yourself much easier now, but only for your specific use case
> Any of y’all freelancers have a system you like?
I do all of my company accounts, including invoicing, via FreeAgent, which these days I have a Claude Code instance running via API key.
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"You’d track how many hours or weeks you spent on a project, put together an invoice, email it to the client, and close it out when they paid."
But you can more easily do that with AI nowadays. The AI can even figure out what you're working on, and when.
The Harvest website lists the following (annually billed) plans:
- Free (obviously free)
- Teams $9 a month
- Enterprise unlimited $14 a month
The writer of this article claims they got upgraded to $133.98 a month plan, but looking at the site, such plan does not even exist.
Something is a bit fishy here or they accidentally added an extra 3 to the $13.98 or mistook the yearly price for a monthly price.
why not vibe coding one to replace this service?