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by zainbahari 714 days ago
Thank you so much for your insightful feedback! I really appreciate your detailed comments. Here are my thoughts on the points you raised:

Terminology: Interesting suggestion to use "(payables) bills" instead of "(receivables) invoices". We recognize that "invoices" might be more understandable for people in Europe, but we’ll aim to balance clarity for both regions.

Scope: I know what you mean. This is our beachhead. Our vision is to build a tool for freelancers, contractors, consultants, and SMBs to monitor their financial health. We want to enable people to run their businesses smarter.

Integrations: That's correct. We are going to start by fetching and analyzing data from invoices, but we will expand the system to include contract, license, and usage data. And yes, we will introduce data destinations in the future. QuickBooks and Xero are already on our list.

Pricing: Valid point. With our 'Essential' plan, companies can connect multiple inboxes and have some simple notifications and reports. Our data shows this is sufficient for freelancers and early-stage startups.

Messaging: We will go harder. For now, we are going to keep it simple :)

Transparency: We'll work on providing more details on our website, especially to meet EU standards. By the way, did you check the FAQ section on our website?

Thank you again for your encouragement and valuable suggestions!

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NP at all, happy to see you tackling this.

In addition to the FAQs, here's what I would love to see on the landing page:

- Clear blurb on what data you're taking offsite (regardless of encryption), what you are storing, and confirmation that no third parties obtain any data (regardless of whether anonymized).

- Privacy policy & terms + conditions

- A screenshot showing an email inbox on the left, Xero bill templates on the right, and lines linking between the two (demonstrating the emails you have found, matched & synced to recurring xero bills).

- Assurance that 99.9% of bills would be captured and synced.

Those things together would be so compelling that I would get easy change signoff from most of my clients.

Love those suggestions. We'll update our website soon with more supporting information.

"Easy signoff" is what I love! What kind of clients are we talking about here? Let's connect on Twitter and see how we can help each other: @zainbahari