What it is
Portable is a financial platform I built for HackNomics 2025, aimed at the 70 million Americans working in the gig economy. The core idea: upload one bank statement and the app handles the financial bookkeeping that gig workers typically do manually — or skip entirely, often at real cost.
Why I built it
Most financial tools are built around a W-2 and a single employer. For someone driving for Uber in the morning, doing Upwork contracts in the afternoon, and collecting Patreon income on the side, that model breaks down. The tax situation alone is complicated — self-employment tax runs 15.3% on top of federal and state income tax, and quarterly deadlines catch people off guard.
The README notes gig workers leave $3,000–$5,000 in deductions unclaimed each year because tracking them is tedious. That was the motivation behind the expense categorization work.
