SnapExpense
Photograph a receipt, get a categorized expense entry. Done.
● The Problem
Small business owners and freelancers hate expense tracking. Receipts pile up. Manual entry is tedious. Expensify and SAP Concur are designed for enterprises with approval workflows and corporate cards.
● The Solution
A mobile-first expense tracker. Take a photo of a receipt. AI extracts the merchant, amount, date, and category. Syncs to your accounting software. No approval workflows, no corporate card integration, no complexity.
Key Signals
MRR Potential
$5K-20K
Competition
High
Build Time
1-3 Months
Search Trend
stable
Market Timing
Freelancer economy continues growing. AI OCR makes receipt scanning accurate enough to be useful without manual correction.
MVP Feature List
- 1Camera receipt capture
- 2AI OCR extraction
- 3Auto-categorization
- 4QuickBooks/Xero sync
- 5Monthly expense reports
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Marketing landing page
Go-to-Market Strategy
Target freelancers on Twitter and Reddit. "Stop hoarding receipts" messaging. Free for 20 receipts/month. Tax season marketing push. Partner with accounting software for referrals.
Target Audience
Monetization
SaaS SubscriptionCompetitive Landscape
Expensify dominates enterprise. Wave is free but basic. Shoeboxed does scanning but is desktop-centric. A mobile-first, AI-powered experience for individuals is the gap.
Why Now?
AI vision APIs can now extract structured data from receipt photos with 95%+ accuracy. This was a manual-correction nightmare two years ago.
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