A chart is a filter you have to know how to write. Expense has had those for a while: type the filter, get the chart. The interesting case is the one where you do not know the filter, because you are asking a question instead.

Ask "did I spend

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Connect to Expense There's a debate going on whether MCP is better than API/CLI access, since modern LLMs have access to the CLI and can do REST over HTTP easily. I think it's a pointless debate. APIs have their own design guidelines,

The IRS wants foreign spending in dollars, converted at the rate for the day you paid. Not the day you file, and not the day you finally remember the receipt. Expense does that conversion itself now.

The rate is the ECB's daily reference for the expense date, fetched

A feature can be finished and still be unusable. Expense has had an MCP server for a while: point an assistant at https://expense.labnotes.org/mcp, it discovers the OAuth flow, you sign in once. That part works. The part that did not was the last mile. The how

Neatnik "Everything can be accessible."

🎉🎉🎉 Fastmail just approved Expense’s OAuth client.

I believe we's now the first expense tracking app that can collect receipts from Fastmail (and JMAP in general). To me, because I use Fastmail for my emails, it'

There are many ways for the same receipt to enter Expense: forward it by email, drag the file into the editor, let the MCP tool fetch it, connect a mailbox and have it imported for you. Each route used to look at metadata on its own, so the same PDF

The search box on the expense list in Expense understands fields now. report:, category:, and merchant: match exactly, case-insensitive, and description: matches anywhere in the description. Values can contain spaces: report:2026 travel is one filter, not two. Repeating a key ORs (merchant:shell merchant:chevron), mixing keys ANDs,

Steven Hoefer

Fold I love this. ❤️ It's yet another one-person app coded with AI that solves the eternal todo list problem. Sounds utterly redundant, but when you're not building for a huge target market, you can make some insightful choices.

Write the task,

Every receipt that lands in Expense has to become structured data: merchant, date, amount, category. A language model can do that, but model calls cost money and seconds, so the pipeline is designed around not making them. Most receipts never reach a model.

The order goes like this.

Text first.

Expense now has a command palette. Press Cmd+K anywhere (Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux) and type what you want to do. Go somewhere, add something, search, export. The mouse is optional.

Some of the keys I actually use:

• g e expenses, g r reports, g m emails, g

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Most expense apps only auto-import receipts from Gmail accounts. Expense now works with FastMail — this is how it works, what it gets right, and what it lacks.

I built Expense for people who file taxes as individuals — freelancers, self-employed, side hustlers. The pain point is always

Clarissa "What if we kissed on the Cray supercomputer loveseat?"

Vibe coding and quality "When you hear that some app was “vibe coded”, how much quality do you expect?"

I was just wondering about this very topic. I think LLMs can do a remarkably

And I made a cool thing in Expense that I find incredibly useful. Once a month comes along and I have my statements, I import the PDFs into Expense and let it reconcile the expenses. It looks up if the expense already exists in my list and reconciles it if

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Me just asking DeepSeek to make my app go faster, to which it replies with:

The cumulative effect across all the changes so far: the list page went from 6 DB queries to 4 (removed merchants + cached rates + cached account), and the edit page went from loading all expenses to

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This week I completed developing the expense report app. This is the software that I am working on for getting all my tax stuff together – receipts, mileage and what not. This is made using Deepseek V4 Flash and the total cost of the project

$9.20 to vibe-code an app into existence in one week. It's made of 38,000 lines of code and 15,700 lines of comments. Tests make up about 21% of the code. Spec size is about 3,200 words.

I understand that "vibe

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Did I just vibe-code an app because I didn’t like the new UI? Why yes I did. I’ve been using Expensify for many years to keep track of my expenses. It was good. There were

I have an AI agent that helps me handle legal cases. It's not a lawyer, but I can iterate with it for hours on different scenarios, work on collecting evidence, ask clarifying questions, etc. It charges me an hourly rate of $1.20, so 100x cheaper than an

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