Howdy all! I've been thinking of developing a system to be used by my roommates and I to help settle small debts (things like utility bills, pizza, etc.) If I were to develop such a system, I would surely open source it. But first, I wanted to check to see if anything like it may already exist. Here's the details on my idea:
Three us us (students) live in the same house. We get bills for things like gas. We also pay our rent individually. Suppose I get a gas bill for $90. I could ask each of my roommates to give me $30 when I get the bill, but that becomes cumbersome when you also get many other bills and do things like ordering pizza. What's easier to do is to adjust the amount of rent we pay next month (i.e., I pay $60 less and they each pay $30 more). This is how my roommates and I currently do it, but we do it by writing e-mails out about what we spent money for, i.e., it's currently done by hand. I was thinking I could make a php/MySQL app that does this for us. Obviously, if I did open source it it would only have a very limited market (single folks who have roommates...) but I figured why not? Anybody know of anything that already does this or something like it so I don't reinvent the wheel? Anyone find any interest in such a product? Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Dio fece il mondo in sei giorni, ed il settimo fu arrestato. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
