Launched Follow-up Invoices today — my first product
It automates the awkward part of freelancing: chasing clients who haven't paid. Upload a CSV or sync from Stripe, and it sends 3 pre-written reminder emails (friendly → firm → final notice), only during business hours, with real Stripe payment links inside so clients can pay in one click.
I'm self-taught and built this with Claude Code as my AI dev partner — I handled the product decisions, testing, and deploy, while a lot of the code was AI-assisted. Already got great feedback from early users and shipped a requested feature (per-client reminder muting) within an hour of the request.
Free tier available, paid plans from $15/mo. Would love feedback from anyone who's dealt with chasing late payments themselves.
That's exactly the reframe I wish I'd led with in the post — thank you. The mechanical part (scheduling emails) is trivial; the real product decision was accepting that a "final notice" sent by software, at the wrong time or too soon, does more damage than the unpaid invoice itself. That's why business hours and the staged escalation are the whole point, not a nice-to-have.
Curious — from your experience, does the "firm" stage feel right, or would you want more control over exactly when/how it escalates?
The interesting part is that you’re not really automating invoicing, you’re removing the awkwardness around following up. The friendly → firm → final sequence feels like the part that could make this genuinely useful rather than just another payment reminder tool.