👏 Hey there, I’m Assaf.

☕ Founder CEO of Rentail, where we help Gen-Z merchants make money by gaining them a foothold at shopping centers.

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Things i'm working on

🛍️ Rentail.space — literally the iOS for micro-merchants - like instead of scrolling endlessly through Craigslist hoping to find the perfect mall spot, this AI just matches you with your ideal retail space and handles all the boring stuff, no cap this is the blueprint for how gen-z should be doing brick-and-mortar.

🧾 Expense — Expense turns receipts into tax-ready records: snap a photo, paste a screenshot, or forward the email, and OCR pulls out the merchant and amount. Each expense lands in an IRS Schedule C category, mileage logs map your drives at the year's rate, and at tax time you export a PDF or ZIP.

📬 Inbox — a cleaner replacement for USPS Informed Delivery. USPS emails you whenever new mail arrives, but the emails get cluttered. Inbox reads them, strips the clutter, and drops a tidy digest in your inbox instead. TypeScript on Vercel, FastMail via JMAP, open source.