Hi, I'm Nandhaa. Between full-time jobs and freelance stints, I've spent the last several years watching the same problems repeat every time I took on client work.
My freelance stack was six different tools that didn't talk to each other. Tasks lived in Notion. Invoices got hand-typed in Word, exported as PDFs, and emailed manually. Time tracking happened in a janky Google Sheet I'd half-forget to update. Contracts were in Google Drive, somewhere, probably. And every month I'd sit down and try to figure out what I'd earned, who owed me money, and how much I'd actually billed versus the time I'd spent.
The number was always smaller than it should have been.
The pattern was the same every time. A client would say something casually on WhatsApp like "hey can you also do X?", and three weeks later I'd realise I'd done a whole extra deliverable for free. Or I'd send an invoice, get distracted, and not follow up for two months. Or my hours would be tracked so loosely that when a client asked "how long is this taking?", I had no honest answer.
The problem wasn't that I needed more tools. I needed one tool that understood how freelance work actually flows. Contract leads to project, leads to tasks, leads to time tracked, leads to invoice, leads to getting paid. All of those things touch each other, and when they're in different apps, you become the glue. The glue is also the bottleneck.
So I built Rinto. It's the app I wanted. Clients, projects, tasks, time, invoices, contracts, expenses all live in one place and talk to each other. When you stop a timer, the hours flow into the invoice. When a client signs a contract, their info fills the next invoice automatically. When you mark a task billable, its time is ready to bill.
The goal isn't to make you feel like a freelancer running a business. The goal is to make you actually run a real business. Professionally, predictably, and without losing money on the boring parts.
Rinto is built for India first because that's where I live and that's the market I understand. GST, UPI, GSTIN, the way Indian clients actually pay (or don't pay), all of it is baked in. We'll expand from here.
If any of this sounds familiar, give it a try. If it doesn't fit your workflow yet, I'd love to hear why even more.