Multi-modal expense tracking with Telegram, Gemini AI & Google Sheets
🤯 Problem of Traditional Bookkeeping - 🔀 Context switch kills the habit: Because bookkeeping lives outside the apps you use every day, you postpone it → forget to log. - 🧱 High input friction: You’re forced to fill...
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🤯 Problem of Traditional Bookkeeping - 🔀 Context switch kills the habit: Because bookkeeping lives outside the apps you use every day, you postpone it → forget to log. - 🧱 High input friction: You’re forced to fill rigid fields (amount/category/date/notes…), which is slow and discouraging for quick capture. - 🎙️💸 Weak or pricey natural-language options: A few tools support voice/chat, but they’re often expensive, and the experience is hit-or-miss. - 🔒📦 Limited data ownership: Records live on third-party servers, so privacy and control are diluted.
📲 How This Workflow Fixes It - 💬 Put the capture back where you already are: Log expenses directly inside Telegram (or other channels) in a familiar chat—no new app to learn. - ⚡ Ultra-low-friction, unstructured input: Send text, a voice note, or a receipt photo—the flow extracts amount · item · date, supports multiple languages and relative dates, and can split multiple expenses from one message. - 🗂️📝 Your data, your sheet: Final records are written to your own Google Sheet (columnar fields or a JSON column). You keep full control.
🔗 Demo Google Sheet: [click me](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18PmxJov2VszEtUlK3IB4Jfbm37hRQbS8D90SSscvoW8/edit?usp=drivelink)
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👥 Who Is This For - 😤 Anyone fed up with traditional bookkeeping but curious about an AI-assisted, chat-based way to log expenses. - 🤖 People who tried AI bookkeeping apps but found them pricey, inflexible, or clunky. - 💵 Bookkeeping beginners who want frictionless capture first, simple review and categorize later.
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🧩 How It Works - 💬 Captures expenses from Telegram (text, voice note, or receipt photo). - 🔎 Normalizes inputs into raw text (uses Gemini to transcribe voice and extract text from images). - 🧠 Parses amount · item · date with an LLM expense parser. - 📊 Appends tidy rows to Google Sheets. - 🔔 Sends a Telegram confirmation summarizing exactly what was recorded.
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