Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Bx - Slick invoicing, expenses, time tracking & projects
Hi HN! After a few months of developing a product on the side, I've decided to post it to HN. I'll be honest, I am a bit nervous about it as I know how discerning the audience here can be, but I guess constructive criticism can't be a bad thing! My project is a progressive web app called Bx (pronounced "Books"). It's a tool to help you run your business and includes: > Invoicing and payments (via stripe) > Expenses > Time tracking > Project management > Inventory management > Slick, interactive dashboards It's nothing new or radical, but many of the existing tools I tried in my own business…
Bx is a progressive web app that helps small business owners manage invoicing, payments, expenses, time tracking, projects, and inventory in one place. Built as a responsive web application with offline functionality… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Bx - Slick invoicing, expenses, time tracking & projects launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Midday▲969I’ve been working on automating bookkeeping tasks, and one big pain point was manually reconciling receipts with bank transactions. We built a system that runs in the background, parses receipts (including Gmail), suggests matches, and learns from confirmations to auto-match over time. It's built into Midday and fully open-source. Let me know if you have any questions!
2024 · midday.ai · its alternatives →
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Autumn▲719If you’re on tech twitter you may have noticed an increasing dissent with Stripe and it’s DX. t3.gg (Theo) summarizes it best: “IMO, the biggest issue with Stripe is the "split brain" it inherently introduces to your code base. When a customer checks out, the "state of the purchase" is in Stripe. You're then expected to track the purchase in your own database via webhooks. There are over 258 event types. It's far too easy to have a payment be failed in stripe and "subscribed" in your app.” We've built an OSS abstraction to build any pricing model 1 line of code. The idea is a layer over…
2025 · useautumn.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Christine and Steven here. As a PM and engineer, we’ve both evaluated and purchased a lot of software. One of the biggest frustrations was figuring out how much it would cost us without having to go through the sales process. When we did have a quote, we had no idea if we were getting a good deal or ripped off. We built a site where you can see what other companies are actually paying for SaaS and enterprise software. Buyers contribute prices via quotes, pricing proposals, and other documentation to ensure quality. We unlocked Talkdesk for Show HN users so that you can use the…
2024 · pricelevel.com · its alternatives →
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Stripe Dashboard▲475Activate the preview of the refreshed Dashboard now
2017 · stripe.com · its alternatives →
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Paritydeals▲331Stripe is great, but is not simple. You end up handling many webhooks, mirroring Stripe data, tracking subscription states, and hardcoding feature checks. Managing upgrades, downgrades, migrations, overrides, and grandfathering often needs custom scripts. ParityDeals keeps that billing logic out of your app. Once you integrate ParityDeals SDK, you can manage everything from a single dashboard. No further code changes required. I'd love to hear your feedback
2025 · paritydeals.com · its alternatives →
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Invofox Self Servefree tier, from $500/mo▲319Hey HN! We’re Alberto, Carmelo, and Adrian, the founders of Invofox (https://invofox.com/) — the document processing AI built for software companies and developers. We started two years ago with invoice processing, but we’ve since expanded our capabilities to include utility bills, purchase orders, bank statements, pay slips, receipts, and checks. Why launch on Hacker News now, especially since we’re S22 batch? As we’ve grown, one of the most common questions we hear is: “Can Invofox handle this document type too?” To solve this, we’ve just launched Custom Documents…
30d ago · invofox.com · its alternatives →
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Beyond Pricing▲143Hey HN, We built a mobile app for short-term rental hosts and property managers to manage dynamic pricing, bookings, and calendars on the go. Our team has worked on revenue management for hospitality since 2013, and we’ve seen that many hosts (ourselves included) are rarely behind a desk—they’re out in the field, meeting owners, handling check-ins, or updating prices from their phones at odd hours. We wanted to fix a longstanding pain point: revenue management software for our space has always been web-first and clunky on mobile. This was frustrating, as over 60% of internet traffic is now…
2014 · beyondpricing.com · its alternatives →
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Bizcuit▲58The financial toolkit for entrepreneurs and business owners
2022 · bizcuit.nl · its alternatives →
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Laps is tool for freelancers and small businesses to manage their clients, projects and invoices. We are dedicated to build best software for people like us - digital professionals. You can talk to laps with your favourite software. Generate invoices straight from Slack chat or create project via em
2016 · app.getlaps.com · its alternatives →
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I started to track my expenses on excel sheets earlier this year. It was interesting to see how much I spent casually on just another hangout with friends or on education. Excel sheets are painful, at least for me. So I built this with my friend: (it's just MVP) http://accountant.besperk.com Edit: Coming up next: > Mobile site and apps asap. > Graphs and reports > SSL > Custom Alerts (when you cross a certain limit, that you define, for certain tag) > Pre populated tags. Tech used: > Rails > on Heroku My co-founder is offline will ask him to add more details on…
2011 · accountant.besperk.com · its alternatives →
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Not exactly a side project but my work for the last 2.5 years. As an avid HN lurker would love to hear feedback. Background: I am a PM on the Excel team in charge of the advanced data analysis tools (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/Products/OfficePreview.aspx) To download: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en
2012 · microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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Nexpenda▲56Free expense tracking, budgeting, analytics and more
2021 · nexpenda.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · zipbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Simple invoice and inventory management for small businesses
2020 · bizxpert.com · its alternatives →
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