#taxes
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I built it for my own taxes — Darkroom Notes, Season 4, and STIL.RECEIPT
Every year at tax time, I'd wrestle with the pile of receipts stuffed in drawers and my wallet. Date, amount, store, tax rate — type each one in by hand, or leave them and cry about it later. The person it troubled most was me. Darkroom Notes, Season 4: my receipt app, STIL.RECEIPT, starting with why I made it.
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When a receipt becomes an expense — a fourth tool, and the end of Darkroom Notes Season 4
Capture, read, sort, verify, turn into an expense. The pieces I've written one by one come together on a single receipt. To close, I trace that flow from start to finish, write what I came to think after building a fourth tool, and end Darkroom Notes Season 4.
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On the shelf in a week — the unglamorous paperwork of shipping a second app
STIL.TOON went from kickoff to the App Store in a week. But the thing that stopped review at the end wasn't a bug in the code. A bank account, tax forms, a contract to sign — shipping an app takes preparation that isn't digital at all. Darkroom Notes, Season 2, the finale.