EST. 2024 · EASTON, PA · BUILT BY A FILMMAKER WHO NEEDED IT

Between
spreadsheet
madness.

And "fuck, I need QuickBooks."

Daygig is the financial operating system for makers, landlords, and contractors — small operators who just need to know if their thing is actually making money. Free means free: no trial, no feature hostage situation, no account, no subscription.

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Free, donation-supported Yours forever Your data never leaves your computer No subscription Apple Silicon Mac · macOS 12+
The Daygig dashboard running locally, showing cash position, month-to-date revenue and expenses, sales tax owed, a six-month revenue chart, upcoming filing deadlines, and products ranked by gross profit
Not a mockup

This is Daygig running.

We built it because CnF Works needed it. The same screen that runs our small shop can run yours: money, products, materials, sales, jobs, campaigns and the paperwork nobody warned you about.

Your records stay on your Mac. If the internet goes out, the app does not disappear. If you never donate a dollar, nothing gets locked.

  • NO SIGNUP OR EMAIL GATE
  • NO TRIAL CLOCK
  • NO RENTING YOUR OWN BOOKS
The Real Problem
01

Generic software doesn't speak your language.

QuickBooks was built for an office with a staff. It has no concept of raw materials, bill of materials, or finished goods. Getting it to understand your button stock or print run COGS requires workarounds that break constantly.

02

Inventory apps don't do your books.

They'll track what you have, but not what you spent, what the event cost, or whether the project made money. You end up with two apps, two logins, two monthly fees, and numbers that don't match.

03

Subscription software charges whether you made anything or not.

$35/month is $420/year, every year, forever. Lean months hit doubly hard when the software bill doesn't flex with your income.

04

Nobody's answering the real question.

Your bank balance isn't the answer. Stripe isn't the answer. A spreadsheet that tracks revenue but not the full cost of making, shipping, and selling definitely isn't. The real answer needs all of it together. That's what Daygig does.

The Story
Origin

I made a film.

Then I needed merch. Then I found out every print shop wanted me to order 500 of something I wasn't sure anyone wanted. So I built a print shop. Then the print shop created an accounting problem. Receipts in my pocket. Notes written in shitty lighting on set. A spreadsheet that tracked what I spent but couldn't answer the one question that actually mattered:

Is any of this worth it?

I looked for software that could tell me. QuickBooks wanted $420 a year and was built for an office with a staff. Everything else tracked one piece — inventory or accounting or expenses — never the whole picture. Nothing understood that I was buying blank shirts on Monday, selling at a craft fair Saturday, and trying to figure out if the whole operation was profitable or just busy.

So I built my own. I called it the BS Machine — because that's what it dealt with. The BS that comes with running your own thing. Taxes. Sales tax. State filings. Deductions. LLC paperwork. Inventory. The endless administrative avalanche that has nothing to do with the actual work but will sink you if you ignore it.

Turns out a lot of other people had the same BS.

So I set about taking my BS to the masses. Apparently the business community doesn't love being called BS. So I renamed it Daygig. Same app. Same attitude. Slightly more palatable to people who didn't grow up on a film set.

Then I started talking to other small operators — landlords, Airbnb hosts, people managing a rental property with a shoebox and a prayer. Different books, identical question:

Am I making money or just staying busy?

Daygig answers that. For all of them.

Makers & Creators

Your Studio.
Your Books.

Artists, makers, filmmakers, bands, crafters, indie sellers. You need inventory, COGS, bill of materials, orders, events, campaigns, receipt parsing, and a tax packet your accountant won't throw back at you.

Landlords & Property Owners

Your Property.
Your Numbers.

Small landlords, Airbnb hosts, people figuring out if a rental property is worth the headache. Know what it costs, what it makes, and whether you're actually cash flow positive after all the fees nobody warns you about.

Contractors & Home Services

Your Jobs.
Your Margins.

Plumbers, handymen, repair crews, one-truck LLCs. Know what every job actually made after materials, subs, and your own hours — not just what you invoiced.

What's Inside

Everything.
One Price.

Not a feature list built for a pitch deck. This is what's running right now, ready to use on day one. See every screen in detail →

Accounting

Double-Entry Bookkeeping That Actually Makes Sense

Real books. Real ledger. Chart of accounts pre-built for your type of operation — not a consulting firm, not a restaurant chain. You. Every transaction posts correctly, every time.

Inventory

Materials + Products + Bill of Materials

Track raw materials, finished goods, and the recipe connecting them. Weighted-average costing. Stock movements. Low-stock alerts. COGS posts automatically when something sells.

AI

Receipt Parsing With AI

Photo your receipt. Daygig reads the vendor, date, line items, and total, then pre-fills your books. Bring your own Anthropic API key. Costs about two cents a receipt.

Events

Events & Conventions as Real Business Operations

A craft fair isn't just a calendar item. It's a mini business operation with its own expenses, sales, and P&L. Daygig tracks it that way — booth fees, travel, sales, and all.

Reports

Reports Your Accountant Will Actually Love

P&L. Balance sheet. Schedule C. Schedule E for rental income. Year-end export package. Hand them a ZIP file instead of a shoebox and watch the relationship improve.

Import

Bank CSV & Platform Imports

Import bank CSVs plus Etsy, Shopify, Stripe, Square, and PayPal exports — known platform formats map their columns automatically. Review the queue. Post. Every row becomes a balanced ledger entry with duplicate detection.

Property

Property Income & Expense Tracking

Every property gets its own income, expenses, rent roll, reserve fund, and profitability report. Know what the house is costing you. Know what it's making you. Know the real number.

STR

STR Booking Profitability

Each Airbnb or VRBO stay broken down completely — gross payout, platform fees, cleaning, supplies, utilities estimate, and reserve allocation. Real profit per night, per stay.

Jobs

Jobs, Estimates & Invoices

Every job carries its own costs, hours, and revenue. Send an estimate, convert it to an invoice when they say yes, bill your unbilled hours in one click, and see real profit per job.

Compliance

Tax & Compliance Deadlines

Estimated quarterlies. Sales tax. State filings. LLC renewals. Tracked in one place with status. No more sticky note on the monitor. No more late penalties.

For Contractors

"Busy" Isn't
The Same As Paid.

A full calendar can still lose money. Materials creep, sub invoices land late, and your own hours quietly become free labor. Most job tracking apps show you revenue and call it a day.

Daygig runs every job through a real ledger — materials, subcontractor payments, your billed and unbilled hours, deposits, and invoice payments all roll into one number: what the job actually made.

EVERY JOB GETS A P&L. EVERY HOUR GETS BILLED. EVERY SUB GETS A 1099 TRAIL.

Job — Bathroom Remodel · INV-0042
Invoiced (estimate accepted) $8,400.00
Materials −$2,310.00
Subcontractor labor (1099 tracked) −$1,800.00
Your hours — 26 hrs, billed −$1,690.00
Job profit $2,600.00
Invoice status — partial $6,000 of $8,400 paid
⚠ $2,400 outstanding on INV-0042. Payment posts straight to the job when it lands — profit updates automatically.
For Landlords

The AC Will Die.
Be Ready.

Small landlords fool themselves by spending cash that actually belongs to the future roof, furnace, tax bill, or vacancy month. It's not irresponsibility — it's just that no tool has ever made the reserve math visible.

The CapEx Reserve tells you exactly how much to set aside every month, tracks your reserve balance per property, and turns red when you're behind. STR bookings can auto-allocate a reserve cut from every stay — and the Owner Draw calculator won't call cash "safe to take" until your reserves are funded.

SOMETHING WILL BREAK. DAYGIG TELLS YOU HOW MUCH TO SET ASIDE BEFORE IT DOES.

CapEx Reserve — Phoenix Property
Gross Airbnb income (June) $3,200.00
Platform fees −$384.00
Cleaning & turnover −$240.00
Mortgage + insurance −$1,450.00
Net operating cash $1,126.00
Reserve fund health $2,100 of $8,000 target
⚠ Reserve is $5,900 short of target. Set aside $492/mo to reach target in 12 months. Log a reserve deposit to update.
The Math
$420/yr
$0
always.

QuickBooks Simple Start costs $420 a year. Every year. That's what you're paying to keep your own business records in someone else's cloud — and it doesn't even include inventory or materials costing. You'd need to upgrade for that.

Daygig is free. Full stop — accounting, inventory, BOM, orders, job costing, receipts, events, property tracking, and tax prep, without a renewal notice in your inbox every January.

Slow month? Your software bill is still $0. It always is. If Daygig's earning its keep, there's a tip jar down below — no pressure either way.

Local-First

Your Records.
Your Machine.
Full Stop.

Daygig runs locally. Your database is a single SQLite file on your computer — not in a data center, not tied to a subscription, not at risk the moment you miss a payment or a startup shuts down.

For landlords: your tenant information and financial records stay on your machine. Not in someone else's cloud.

For makers: your inventory, margins, and sales data are yours. Nobody's selling your numbers to anyone.

Runs at 127.0.0.1 (your machine)
Database SQLite · single file
Cloud account required No
Vendor lock-in None
Auto backup Before every write
AI data sharing Your key · direct to Anthropic
Export your data Any time · any format
Pricing

Fuck subscriptions.
Daygig is free.

No tiers hiding features. No renewal. No "sorry, that's the next plan up." No subscriptions, no freemium, no run-around — we hated all that as much as you do.

Click download. Unzip it. Keep it. We don't need your email.

Daygig
Free
Donations welcome · Yours forever

The whole app. Every mode, every report, every feature. Download it and set it up yourself — the docs are solid and everything works on day one.

  • Maker, landlord and contractor modes — all included
  • Double-entry accounting + full ledger
  • Inventory, BOM, COGS automation
  • Job costing, estimates & invoices, 1099 tracking
  • AI receipt parsing (your Anthropic key)
  • Events, projects, campaigns
  • All reports + year-end export
  • Local-first SQLite database
  • All future updates included
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Pay what it's worth to you

Daygig is free because subscriptions and freemium junk mail suck — not because it's worth nothing. If it's saving you real time or money, a few bucks in the tip jar keeps it going.

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The app is free and the docs are solid, but if your books are a mess or you've never run double-entry before, email me — happy to help get you set up.

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No subscription No cloud required No vendor lock-in No data sharing No renewal notice No upsells No monthly fee on a slow month

Stop guessing.
Start knowing.

Your thing is either making money or it isn't. Daygig tells you which.

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