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Hey HN, I built Billpal because every tool I tried wanted to turn me into an accountant. I'm self-employed, I don't need much – no P&L, no balance sheet. Happy to pay a CPA for thi…

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Thank you! Well, I built it in a way that the format is kinda universal – expenses are categorized but not with tax codes. Instead I am using labels like e.g. 'Cloud Infra & Hostin…

Hey HN, I'm Roman and I've been working on Billpal, a tool I built to do my bookkeeping for me. Started as a personal thing, but I ended up building a product around it so others c…

Thanks - we'll do!

I agree with you mostly but not 100%. It's definitely true that the way how you build it makes a product stand out - however the goal of this tool is more to understand WHAT to bui…

Very good input, thanks! We'll add some examples on the page.

Currently we have a quite basic RAG setup, no fine-tuning. We wanted to get this out fast so decided to use Assistants API but definitely needs some polishing in this RAG pipeline …

Precisely, problems/complaints/negative comments unveil a lot of interesting opportunities. For this very reason we instructed the model to pay a bit more attention to expressions …

That was exactly the reason we built this - to facilitate the gathering of this intel. Will it be a panacea for doing research - of course not. But it can speed things up a bit and…

I agree, there is a lot of opportunities you can find when looking at a subset of frustrated customers. Ironically they tell you in greater detail what they dislike vs the super ha…

Hm can you elaborate on this - I do not fully understand. Was there no response for "Summarize the reviews you have on products in the OCR category"? The demo is not "cached" or an…

So the difference is we inject software review text chunks into the conversation as hidden context for the LLM to answer the query. Based on your input we do a cosine similarity se…

Currently we do not have a function caller that checks the topic of the prompt and then direct the query accordingly - this is a very good input thank you! We did some work to add …

This is a very good idea, thanks a lot for this! Yes we do intend to monetize this at some point, currently offering access as a free beta to first validate whether this is useful …

Hi this is Roman, the co-founder Andrei mentioned in the post. I agree with you, a good chunk of these reviews come about through incentivizing people and not all of them are organ…