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I pay $100 a month for Xero (accounting software), and I do wonder if upgrading to Claude Code Max for a month or two would pay for itself to write a robust replacement. It probably won’t get bank feed imports right, but that’s broken in Xero for some accounts anyway.

I have been building a bootstrapped Xero like accounting SaaS for three years now. The last few months using a lot of agentic coding. Accounting is a deep deep rabbit hole. Agentic coding mostly just helped me feel less burned out and have fewer migraines.

A general purpose accounting platform (and then hosting/marketing/running etc) is probably a deep hole, but something tailored for a single user (basically just book-keeping, GST, P&L reports) feels like it should be manageable. Tbh I’m mostly just irritated by the constant Xero price hikes.

I'm rubbing my hands in glee over the price hikes. Imma undercut these mofos so hard :D Right now I'm bootstrapping in an undeserved niche. But I'm building so I can grow into the general market later, and I'm laser focused on keeping costs down. No cloud except bucket storage.

I'm bootstrapping in a very local geographic niche, so the system isn't even in English yet. But www.bokin.fo I definitely feel like someone will undercut Xero at some point. It's a race, because the enshittyfication of established SaaS seems like a repeatable inevitability.