suggestion: your own vote should probably be given automatically to a site you post. (or you shouldn't be able to vote your own ideas in the first place)
I like the minimalism of this, just a connection monitor, nothing else. Great work!
1 feature request tough: I've installed RadioSilence also, and it would be very handy to be able to drag&drop apps from PrivateEye to RadioSilence to be silenced. Lack of this doesn't stop me from using this, but would make life a bit easier.
Wow, you've managed to simplify the concept even more! I guess the lack of money transfers limits this to non-continuous cases tough. (Which might be just fine)
I like the fact that the "landing page" is the tool, hopefully this stays with the finished version also.
This could be just due to the unfinished status, but currently at least it does require awful lot of clicking around with mouse. At least entering the cost of an item right after the name should be possible without touching the mouse. (and it actually took a moment for the first time to notice that you can edit the cost afterwards)
Maybe it would be also good to make a more drastic graphical difference between the names and the items?
Are you planning on adding possibility to mark certain items to be paid by certain people only?
Yeah, I think in the finished version, you would always start automatically at a unique URL, and the app would auto-save.
I agree that full keyboard control would be nice. At the very least, you should be able to tab through fields.
Also, not every user understood the distinction between users and expense items, so you're right about that.
Marking items only for certain people: Hadn't planned to do it in the first version because I didn't know what the interaction would look like, but I like your solution. Also, without this feature, everything works as one page (no need to have a separate page for settling debts).
Yes, current (early) plan of the mobile version is to store the addresses (+names) of the used Events on the phone. (actually, the Payments/Transfers will probably be also saved in the mobile device, to allow offline use)
Accessing Events created with the web-version for the first time with the mobile app is bit of open question tough. Copypasting the URL is maybe not the user friendliest way to handle this. Creating a user account of some sort for the mobile users might be a better idea..
Sounds cool alright, but the actual value added is maybe not that big. Everyone should still manually enter data, so just entering the data manually while looking at the bill could actually be faster..
This probably is not the easiest thing to implement either..
- Yep, the navigation is a bit asymmetric now. I think I'll add more focus to the navigation bar, and maybe even remove the "Settle Debts"-button.
- Actually there is a way. After you have deleted the last transaction of a person, a small "x" button appears next to that person's name in the participants-list. A bit unintuitive maybe.
- Actually, there are no good reasons for the cap. The best is probably to avoid long rows, but 10k is a bit low for that. I'll raise the cap or remove it completely.
It's fun to hope but have you gathered any data that suggests that people are frustrated with having to create accounts for bill-sharing apps?
If you built this to further your own education/skills, great job. If you built this to turn into a product, do your research first or else a lot of your talent/effort/time will be wasted.
No thorough analysis done, just some hours with Google and observations of the way people I know deal with expense sharing (excel/paper).
The problem is real tough: calculating this stuff by hand is painful. And because people still do that, it could be solved better than it already is. Choice between free, easy to use tool and paper is a no brainer (if you know that the tool exists, that is)
--> No signup, because it makes it more likely that you know about the tool. (easier to start using, and a lot more likely to spread)
How many people can I spread this to then? I have no idea, but I think this is the fastest way to find out. If it spreads, awesome, and if it doesn't, I'll just swap to some other project. Not much lost here.
(And yes, education is also a big motivator. This is my first tool after all. I still see some value in just shipping tools some people will actually use, profitable or not. A simple, fast project is good for this.)
Okay, not convinced that's really a benefit (registration lets Billmonk be more useful), but even if it is, what if I'm already registered with Billmonk?
Then you should probably stick with Billmonk.
You're correct, "no signup" is mainly a benefit for those who are not already registered to some competing service, but then again, most people don't use Billmonk.
I'll change the menubar to be a bit more flashy (there is a subtle color difference between the selected page and the rest of the menubar. A bit too subtle, it seems)
suggestion: your own vote should probably be given automatically to a site you post. (or you shouldn't be able to vote your own ideas in the first place)