Show HN: I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance admin tasks
momo.coach
momo.coach
My feedback as a freelancer: one of my main goals is to keep my costs as low as possible, especially fixed costs. For tracking time and generating invoices I use Google Sheets, this has served me well for many years. My invoice is a tab in my timesheets that I manually enter a month's hours into as a line item, and VAT is calculated, I then bump the invoice number and date and export to PDF. This whole process takes a couple of minutes, and I like that some parts are manual because I want to be able to doublecheck everything first.
I think where this kind of tool would really start to be useful is for people expanding from being a one-person operation to more consultancy/agency operations. So I would really target people who aren't working alone by default if I were you.
Sadly, my portal already exists, and is deeply connected to Stripe and my way of doing business. So, I don't ever plan on doing what this person is doing. But I do highly suggest integrating it with Stripe Connect and make the project entirely free, and only charge a % of invoices total (like 1-5%). If it is free, people will use it. If they can send an invoice and automatically charge a client (assuming the client saved their billing information), that is money in the bank and you don't have to worry about collecting or them paying late ... that is worth it's weight in gold, as a contractor.
Basically, I don't see a value-add (YET) for paying for something when right now this admin work isn't costing me any significant time or causing me issues.
Maybe a model like this would work for you as well? The users you are replying to might switch and sometimes pay if they have a busy month.
I have no connection to the project, I just like it.
I have to be honest though with this specific feature set I would really prefer a local offline app with a one time payment. I'm using a Saas accounting software for a business I run with some friends which makes a lot of sense because everyone can create invoices and upload receipts etc. – but for something that's just used by me, I find it hard to justify paying a monthly fee and putting all my data in someone else's hands. I can be convinced otherwise though if the features are compelling enough though.
I saw this blog post on the page: https://momo.coach/blog/do-you-fill-out-your-own-tax-report/... Since you seem to be based in Germany, does this mean the app has an Elster integration or export then? Is there DATEV export, in case I do decide to get a tax accountant to look over my things?
Also the cat is nice.
Edit: Care to share your stack?
It's from our friends at TechSmith who also gave us "SnagIt!".
As a dentist or whatever, you just define some fields that matter to you. And that actually was enough to do most of the job anyone really needed doing.
A view into a database.
I would like to agree with the other commentor asking for a blog post write-up on this.
I would love to see which software stack you like building up for this.
SSH. Postgres on Amazon RDS.
The "& More" needs to link to something.. like a list of all the features you provide beyond the ones mentioned on the home page. Maybe link to the blog page for now? There's tons of great content there.
Does the app support Canadian currency?
Is there a way to change the currency? I'm U.S. based and would need it in $ and with ability to turn off VAT calculations
Ideally we wouldn’t bill hourly and wouldn’t have to care, but neither the world nor my contracts are ideal!
Thus, they get an hour per day of dedicated support, no more unless they want to pay for it (i.e., they want two hours, a single email triggers two billable hours even if it takes 5 mins to reply to a single email).
It works pretty well.