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I’m Building a CSV Cleaner That Doesn’t Suck (or Charge You Monthly)

I’m working on a small tool called Daklens — a CSV cleanup app where you can upload, transform, and clean your data… and only pay if you choose to export.

No subscriptions. No usage limits. No account required.

But here’s the real reason I’m building it:

💡 Daklens is a public demo of Billivio — my pay-per-use billing platform for apps that don’t want to deal with subscription headaches.

This is my way of:

  • 🧪 Testing real-world usage of the “pay per file” model
  • 📦 Dogfooding the Billivio API behind the scenes
  • 🧰 Showing how flexible the platform is — whether you're selling access to APIs, downloads, exports, or something else entirely

What Daklens will let you do:

  • Upload your CSV
  • Fix column names, types, and formatting (dates, currencies, etc.)
  • Remove incomplete or duplicate rows
  • Pay once per export (not per row or per month)

Note: It only displays a sample of 10 rows during editing to keep it fast.


I’d love feedback on:

  • The pricing model (per-export)
  • UI clarity — I’m still tweaking a few things
  • Any glaring UX issues or features you’d expect but don’t see

This isn’t trying to be a giant spreadsheet app — it’s meant to do one thing well: clean up your CSV file before you actually need to use it.

If you’ve ever worked with messy exports or manually fixed CSVs in a spreadsheet editor… let me know what you think.

📸 Screenshots coming below (site is live, but not this version, yet)
🌐 Launching soon at https://daklens.com

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