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Hey all, Naima, solo founder. I built Monby, a bookkeeping assistant that lives entirely in WhatsApp, for Canadian freelancers and sole proprietors. Free beta, no card. What it does: snap a receipt photo in WhatsApp → it reads it, asks you to confirm/correct, and logs it categorized for Canadian tax (T2125 lines, the 50% meal rule, business-use %) into your Google Sheet. Also email invoice forwarding, a web portal, monthly summaries, and anomaly flags on weird/duplicate charges. Records live in your Sheet and Drive — you own them, I keep a copy to power the portal. Try - Monby.ca Where I want brutal feedback: Platform risk: Meta owns the rails. My hedge so far: the web portal does everything WhatsApp does, so nobody's stranded if the API terms shift. But building a full app to replace WhatsApp would make Monby just another accounting app, the whole edge is meeting people where they already chat. How would you de-risk without killing the differentiator? Extraction long tail: send it your worst crumpled receipt; where does it misread? Trust: what would it take before you'd point this at your real books? Two things you'll ask: privacy — receipts pass through Gemini for extraction only, records live in your Sheet/Drive, delete everything anytime via [ hello@monby.ca ](mailto: hello@monby.ca ). And if you're not Canadian, it works as a plain expense tracker. Roast away.   submitted by   /u/Ok_Bell7065 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/6 10:14:37