Turn receipts into Excel in 5 minutes

Every month, millions of freelancers, contractors, and small business owners waste hours manually typing receipt data into spreadsheets. The pain is universal: a shoebox of paper receipts, a spreadsheet with columns for date, merchant, amount, and category — and the tedious, error-prone work of data entry. A recent discussion on Hacker News (439 points, 141 comments) highlighted the release of DeepSeek's new vision model, which dramatically lowers the cost of high-accuracy OCR. This isn't incremental — it's a step change in what's economically feasible for niche tools.

Existing solutions fall short. General-purpose scanner apps like CamScanner output unstructured PDFs, not clean data. Accounting software like QuickBooks or 金蝶 is overkill for a solo freelancer — expensive and complex. The result: people default to manual entry, wasting 1–2 hours per week on a task that should be automated. The gap is clear — there's no lightweight, affordable tool that turns a photo of a receipt directly into a spreadsheet row.

Now is the perfect moment. DeepSeek's vision API pricing is expected to be a fraction of GPT-4o or Claude's vision costs, making per-image analysis cost pennies. This unlocks a new class of "scan and digitize" tools for individuals. The signal is strong: 4 platforms are discussing the same model release, yet no one has shipped a focused downstream application. We're building that — a simple, fast, and affordable receipt-to-CSV tool for the people who need it most.