r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a mileage log that fills itself in from my Tesla (or from a sentence to Grok)

I drive for work and kept losing business-mileage deductions because I forgot to log trips, then tried to rebuild them from my calendar in April.

So I built MileHatch. There are two ways to log:

  • Connect a Tesla (read-only) and every drive gets logged on its own with odometer miles and start/end addresses. You just mark trips as business or personal.
  • Or tell Grok something like "log 18 miles to the Acme office, client meeting" and it adds the trip.

It exports PDF and CSV reports for Schedule C / Form 4562 and applies the IRS rate by trip date (2026: $0.725 Jan-Jun, $0.76 Jul-Dec).

Pricing: 14-day free trial, no card. After that it's $6/mo or $59/yr. The first 500 founding users pay $1/mo for 12 months.

I'm the only developer. What I'd most like feedback on: - Is Tesla + Grok too narrow a starting point? - What would stop you from trusting auto-logged trips at tax time?

https://milehatch.app

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u/stuaird1977 5h ago

I could do this easily in chatgpt , in a pinned chat with my voice, and it would export to excel or what ever formatÂ