Show HN: Lancerkit, the Freelancer Toolbox

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With Lancerkit, freelancers can manage projects, track time, invoice clients, and more – all from one easy-to-use platform.

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I don't see anything in here that is better than existing tools. Freelancers don't have a billion contacts that need a specialized app to manage (Google Contacts works just fine).

Time tracking tools already generate invoices for you.

The transactions are confusing. Do I have to manually submit my bank transactions for this to be useful?

Managing invoices isn't typically that hard. I typically work for 1 client, not part-time for 3 and I bill monthly. At most, I have 2 outstanding invoices. Maybe other freelancers juggle more clients though.

Thank you for your feedback. Indeed, the tool doesn't aim to add anything new, just centralize everything, be simpler to use, and avoid mistakes.

For instance, transactions are automatically synced from your bank account, a visual indicator helps you to find the transactions without a matching document, and the document without a transaction (unpaid invoices), ...

I hope that makes sense :)

I process 2-4 transactions per month? My bank sends me a push notification when the money lands. Centralized invoice matching solutions isn't a big problem (maybe designers which have smaller contracts this would be useful?) but idk i am not seeing why this would help.

Helping with the expense side could be useful. I make 50-100 purchases for my business per year which are annoying to collect, and total my receipts.

Indeed, that was the original idea behind the application. The initial need came from the fact we had to manage multiple receipts, and match them with bank statements, but of course, this also works if you have a lot of invoices (such as in the case of a plumber, small business, ...°

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