Heybill

Finance and crypto

invoice fetching

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Heybill

Automatically Fetch Your Invoices From The Command Line

github.com

#invoices#command line#tax season#scraping#statements

17points
7comments
#1,054of 1,739 in 2013
Top 61%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

3 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Idea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Good starting point for open source contributors

    From 1 comment
    • Cool little project, seems like this would be a good starting point for anyone wanting to contribute to open source.
      holoiii on HN

Objections

  • Users must trust the tool with their credentials; privacy concern raised

    From 1 comment
    • This is what manilla.com does (full disclosure I work there), albeit a few other things as well. We don't have some of the technical (aws, github) providers, but do have more…
      hackerben on HN

Requests

  • Support for AT&T, Comcast, and Centerpoint invoices

    From 1 comment
    • Does it pull from AT&T invoices? Comcast? Centerpoint?
      vraa on HN
  • Support for AMEX statements

    From 2 comments
  • Option to store invoices in an S3 bucket

    From 1 comment
    • +1 for Amex statements. Also, would be awesome to have option to store to S3 bucket
      toomuchtodo on HN
  • Add AWS provider

    From 1 comment
    • OP here, I was fed up wasting my time fetching hundreds of invoices during tax season. Collectively we could create a pretty powerful scraping application that lets us download…
      plehoux on HN

Questions

  • Does it pull from AT&T, Comcast, and Centerpoint invoices?

    From 1 comment
    • Does it pull from AT&T invoices? Comcast? Centerpoint?
      vraa on HN

Alternatives named

  • Manilla (manilla.com) fetches and stores bills from many providers

    From 1 comment
    • This is what manilla.com does (full disclosure I work there), albeit a few other things as well. We don't have some of the technical (aws, github) providers, but do have more…
      hackerben on HN

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