Hey HN, I'm Roma, 21, from Bucharest, Romania. At 20 I was running a 12-person design studio doing €250K/year. Then I lost €50K+ to clients who never paid. No contracts, just trust. Studio collapsed, I took €40K in debt. That experience led me to build Accordio – an AI-powered contract and payment platform for freelancers. The core idea: paste your meeting notes, AI extracts scope/deliverables/payment terms and generates a proposal. Client accepts → contract auto-generates. Contract signed → invoice auto-generates. Everything interlinked, no re-entering data across 4 different tools. Tech stack: Next.js, Supabase, Claude for AI, Stripe Connect for payments, custom e-signature system (built from scratch – DocuSign API was too expensive). The AI has memory...it learns your rates, terms, clients over time. Not just one-off generation. Built it for freelancers like me. Been "vibe coding" this for 2 years... before the term even existed. Would love feedback from HN. |