I got tired of paying for invoicing tools I don’t control… so I built my own

I’ve been freelancing as a developer for years, and honestly invoicing always felt like a weird tax on top of my work.
Not because it’s hard.
Because every tool felt wrong.
Too many features I don’t need.
Too expensive for what it does.
And mostly… I don’t actually own anything.
If tomorrow the SaaS I use:
- changes pricing
- shuts down
- locks features
I’m stuck.
That annoyed me more than the invoicing itself.

So I built something simple:
a self-hosted invoicing tool.
Runs on your own server.
You control your data.
No dependency.
Not trying to replace accounting tools.
Just something dev-friendly that doesn’t get in the way.

Curious:
Do you actually care about owning your invoicing tool…
or is SaaS “good enough” for you?