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AskIH : Hi, If you are a Consultant/freelancer/small business owner…

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18I0C19u6TnhY5qKoEblvHNlA425u2gu3p8Fup00hDJ4/edit#heading=h.hhbvhqnponw0

AskIH : Hi, If you are a Consultant/freelancer/small business owner, I would like to offer my services to do all your cashflow accounting for you.

Initially I was building a tool that users can use by themselves. The tool itself is open source - https://github.com/alexjv89/cashflowy. Recently I have been listening to productize podcast by @briancasel and I am definitely influenced by it. I figured that Cashflowy as a product will take some time to get to a polished state. While it does, I can offer Cashflowy as a service where I augment what the product does not do by me doing it manually for you.

My idea is that the more volume of work that I do for others, the more I figure out how the product should look like. And over a period of time, everything that I find myself repeating I can add it to the product so that eventually I eliminate myself.

Can you take a look at the proposal and let me if it valuable enough for you?

Here is a more detailed write up - https://docs.google.com/document/d/18I0C19u6TnhY5qKoEblvHNlA425u2gu3p8Fup00hDJ4/edit#heading=h.hhbvhqnponw0 .

submitted this linkon February 14, 2019
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    Sounds interesting. How does this differ from bench.co / pilot.com ?

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      Thanks for asking.
      Functionality wise cashflowy is more or less identical to brench.co and pilot.com

      I guess the differentiation is along 2 verticals:

      1. Pricing - Our overheads are lower, we can get the same result for half the price.
      2. Target focus - We would like to focus on very business and individual consultants. I guess there is a lot of overlap with bench/pilot here. Since we would like to have individuals afford a business solution, we do have a DIY mode also(with the ability to self host.)