Tax tips, customer stories, the engineering behind snap‑to‑log, and a play‑by‑play of what we shipped. Written by the people who built it.
A two-year tour through three OCR rewrites, a regrettable detour into LSTMs, and the boring trick that finally beat them all: knowing what a receipt actually is.
Coffee meetings, parking, software trials, that one Uber to the client's office. We pulled 100,000 logged receipts to find what people miss.
The IRS only requires three. We landed on seven for a reason that has nothing to do with tax law and everything to do with how memory works.
Three rewrites, one regret, and the embarrassingly simple change that mattered most. A walkthrough by the engineer who shipped it.
A bulk-edit drawer for the Inbox, a redesigned Reports tab, mileage auto-detection, and one feature we're going to quietly delete next quarter.
I used to spend Sundays sorting receipts. Now I spend Sundays not sorting receipts.Customer stories
Maren Vogel runs a one-woman pottery studio. We sat with her, her CPA, and a stack of glaze invoices to see how Starlog actually fits a working week.
A worked example for a designer making $84,000 — what to set aside, when to send it, and what changes if you incorporate.
From home-office square footage to that conference badge from 2024, the deductions filers most often leave on the table — with median dollar amounts.
Auditors spent six months looking at our infrastructure. Here's the short version of what they found, in plain English, with no marketing seal.
We anonymised three months of Inbox data. Adobe CC wins the "wait, I still have that?" award, and a meditation app comes in second by a wide margin.
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