RIP, Harvest

I’ve been a self-employed contractor for about a decade now, and I’m bummed about Harvest. Harvest was a time-tracking and invoicing service. You’d track how many hours or weeks you spent on a project, put together an invoice, email it to the client, and close it out when they paid. There was a little Stripe integration for accepting credit and ACH payments on the invoice web view. A historical chart of total billed/paid amounts over time, and a table of invoices. Harvest was exactly what you want from small-business software: it solved a well-defined problem with a reliable, simple interface, and did so at a reasonable monthly price. They managed to avoid scope creep and never tried to become an accounting platform, or a blockchain for washing machines.1 I loved Harvest and raved about it to every self-employed person I met. Back in 2025 Harvest got bought out by Bending Spoons, the company that gutted Vimeo. I was worried they might ruin it, but was busy with other things and didn’t…

Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town