BillBuddy AI: Private Expense Tracking for Freelancers, Powered by Gemma and Ollama

Description and use

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <p>Every freelancer knows the pile: photos of receipts, PDF invoices, and a spreadsheet that never gets updated until tax time. I built <strong>BillBuddy AI</strong> to turn that pile into organized expenses, without uploading a single receipt to someone else's server.</p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>BillBuddy AI is a receipt and invoice organizer that runs entirely on your own computer.</p> <ol> <li>You drop in a receipt

Problem

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <p>Every freelancer knows the pile: photos of receipts, PDF invoices, and a spreadsheet that never gets updated until tax time. I built <strong>BillBuddy AI</strong> to turn that pile into organized expenses, without uploading a single receipt to someone else's server.</p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>BillBuddy AI is a receipt and invoice organizer that runs entirely on your own computer.</p> <ol> <li>You drop in a receipt

Outcome

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <p>Every freelancer knows the pile: photos of receipts, PDF invoices, and a spreadsheet that never gets updated until tax time. I built <strong>BillBuddy AI</strong> to turn that pile into organized expenses, without uploading a single receipt to someone else's server.</p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>BillBuddy AI is a receipt and invoice organizer that runs entirely on your own computer.</p> <ol> <li>You drop in a receipt

Evidence

BillBuddy AI: Private Expense Tracking for Freelancers, Powered by Gemma and Ollama

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