Invoice chaser for freelancers
The idea
Every freelancer has unpaid invoices and every freelancer hates sending the awkward “just following up on this” email. The task is 100% automatable: it’s a schedule and good copy. Existing invoicing suites (FreshBooks, etc.) bury reminders inside a big product; this does one thing.
Who pays
Freelancers and small agencies. This is a classic “aspirin not vitamin” product — you buy it the week a client goes 30 days overdue. Price at $9/month or $5/invoice-chased; the value (getting paid) is orders of magnitude above the price.
MVP scope
- Manual invoice entry (no accounting integrations yet)
- Three canned escalation sequences, editable
- Daily cron that sends due reminders
- Mark-as-paid kills the sequence
- Skip for v1: Xero/QuickBooks sync, payment links, multi-user
Build a micro-SaaS called ChaseKit that follows up on unpaid invoices automatically. Core flow: a freelancer connects their email (or just uses our sending domain), adds an invoice (client name, client email, amount, currency, due date, PDF attachment optional), and picks a follow-up schedule: gentle (7/14/21 days overdue), standard (3/7/14), or firm (1/5/10). The app sends pre-written, polite escalating emails from templates the user can edit. When the user marks the invoice paid, follow-ups stop and a "thanks for settling" email optionally goes out. Stack: Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript, Tailwind, SQLite via Prisma (or Supabase Postgres), Resend for email sending, and a daily cron route (Vercel Cron) that finds overdue invoices due for their next reminder and sends it. Pages: landing page with the three escalation templates shown as real examples, dashboard listing invoices with status (upcoming / overdue / chasing / paid), invoice detail with the email timeline, and a template editor. Include a settings page for sender name and signature. Write the three escalation email sequences yourself — they should be genuinely well-written, warm but firm, the kind a British accountant would send. This copy is the product.
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