wanted to see if a small model could handle accounts payable, which is honestly one of the most boring jobs in finance. so i set up xero with 120 supplier…
So me and a friend have an idea for software for car dealerships and importers. Mostly smaller/medium ones (1-10 employees). We don’t want to spend months building something nobody wants,…
For a startup class I’m working on Nestwise, a white-label module that banks and credit unions would put inside their own app. It uses the customer’s transaction data to build…
anthropic launched a personal finance thing yesterday. connect bank + cards via plaid and ask where your money went, duplicate charges, fees, interest paid last year. read only, cant move…
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