Show HN: I taught myself coding to make this app that collects email receipts

http://receiptrunner.com/

by danieljacksonno • 7 years ago

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receiptrunner.com

danieljacksonno2• 7 years ago

Submission post:

Hi HN! Long-time lurker and first-time poster here. Hope this tickles someones fancy!

After a serious learning curve I’ve just managed to launch 1.x of my first app and side project - “Receipt Runner" !

http://receiptrunner.com/

It’s so scary to put something out there!

Receipt Runner is a simple little thing that finds receipts for me (and you). It saves me 2-3 hours of work every month that would otherwise be spent searching for, finding, printing-to-pdf, and delivering receipts for all my digital expenses.

It should work with any Gmail / GSuite email and any bank. (Support for Office365/IMAP coming if demand is high enough!)

It’s built in Electron (shudder) and started life as a web app before I realised I would never trust a server with this kind of data. To work, it needs access to both your emails (!) AND your bank transactions (!!). So now it runs locally, and all data is kept on your own computer, 1999-style. Anxious to see if it’ll work out!

It’s taken me two years, a lot of work, and a lot of learning. I’ve probably made the most common mistake and done way too much work before putting it out there, but it’s out now! If no one else ends up using it, it’s at least excellent for my own use and I’ve learned a tonne.

Built with Electron, React, and Node.

Test it out and let me know if it works for you!

overcast• 7 years ago

Congrats on shipping! This is pretty great product to teach yourself coding on. Thoughts on corporate licensing, and integration with expense reporting software?

The name/url is GREAT btw.

danieljacksonno2• 7 years ago

Thanks for the kind words!

What kind of licensing would be interesting?

Any particular expense software you'd love to see me build integration for?

In general I'd love to build this so that it works as smoothly as possible with your current workflow, and that probably means integration on some level - or at least interoperability.

Show HN: I taught myself coding to make this app that collects email receipts

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