Inflow — The Prototype, Now a Working App

A prototype only has to be right on one path.

The user taps where you expect, the data is always there, every screen holds the example you designed it around. It looks finished. It convinces people — including you. Then you try to make it real and discover the product is all the paths you didn't draw.

Inflow is past that now. Here's what actually runs.

The home screen opens on a progress ring: Rs. 118,000 of a Rs. 500,000 goal, under the line building toward Rs. 500,000.

Not total earned. Progress toward the number you actually need. Those are different questions, and only the second one tells you whether to take the next project.

Underneath sits Next Payout — invoice #1425, awaiting client payment, clearing in 14 days. Because "how much have I made" matters far less than "when does money arrive".

Four stages: leads, pitched, active, paid. Every invoice card carries the client, the project, the invoice number, the platform it came through, and the amount.

The header reads Rs. 140,000 in flight — money that exists but hasn't landed. No invoicing tool I'd used would tell me that figure, and it's the one that determines whether this month is fine or not.

Adding work takes client, project title, gross amount, and the platform: Direct Client, Upwork, Fiverr, Contra, Stripe. Then platform fee percentage and processing fee.

That fee field is the whole point. Every freelancer knows their platform takes a cut and almost nobody tracks it per-invoice, so the gap between quoted and received stays a vague sense of loss instead of a number. Inflow makes it explicit at entry, then carries it through to the payout summary — gross, platform fee, net, estimated clearance date.

Bank Transfer, Wise, PayPal, Stripe, Payoneer, each with account details and its own fee percentage. So the net figure reflects the route the money actually takes rather than an average

Working React Native app with a live backend, tested on my own phone. Google Play release next. Calling it shipped before it's in the store would be a lie — and this is a product about not lying to freelancers about numbers.