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what exactly did you try to type in for the amount? or what was the error?


No errors ...didnt type anything funky... Numbers ....


Thanks for the link. Did not know this.


A pot holds all expenses of a group. You create one pot for a trip with friends and another pot with your roommates. You can (but don't have to) create an account if you want to manage and access many different pots. Or you can just bookmark the url of the pot to access it.


Thanks for your feedback! We will be adding more features soon. The image upload of receipts will be coming soon.


Thanks!

1. Can you send an email to iou@iou.ch so I can check you address and fix the bug? 2. We will be building mobile apps as soon as possible with this functionality.


Please read up on present day email address validation. If you have a regex that is doing more than ^.+@.+$, then you are doing it wrong.

Don't validate the address beyond looking for an '@' in the string; just send an email with a confirmation link to see if it actually works.


I prefer the true email validation regex: https://regex101.com/r/iE0rF5/1


I feel bad for the developers who run into that monstrosity and actually implement it.


100% this!

For reference, I didn't try any of the more obscure email address features, such as comments or quotation. My address simply has the form firstname@lastname.email


> just send an email with a confirmation link to see if it actually works.

Please don't enable anyone to just send emails to arbitrary email-addresses through you. That's how your email/domain will quickly get marked for SPAM.

At the very least, put in place a rate-limit per email-id (and source-ip too maybe). Otherwise i can simply keep entering email-ids of people to spam.


Why the -1's ? Isn't this a genuine concern to avoid getting on a SPAM blacklist? What am i missing?...


I use:

    ^[^@]+@[^.]+\..+$
for a bit of sanity checking...


Multiple @ symbols are absolutely valid, as long as they are properly quoted ;)


Thanks we will change this!


Yes KittySplit is similar but in my opinion the UI is too confusing to use.


Kittysplit founder here. Can you be more specific about what's confusing?

Would be great to get some feedback!


Hey! To be honest Kittysplit is the best tool in terms of simplicity and accessibility...besides IOU ;) I believe the overview page of a kitty could be cleaned up much more. Using it the first time was not at all intuitive for me. We tried to cut it down to the most important features and hope that even my mom would understand to use it. But lets talk more...contact me on iou@iou.ch if you want to!


OK :-D

Have you used Kittysplit recently? We updated the overview page 2 months ago.

Congrats on your mention on HN. I'll be in touch.


Not the person who commented earlier but it feels a bit odd to mix the settlement payments and the actual spending transactions in the same list. Not sure if a different view would be useful or whether it is just something I would get used to over time.


Ah, I see. You made iou.ch. There may be a conflict of interest here


Thanks for your feedback! The email is optional when creating a participant. Try it!


Indeed, thanks. I saw that it was required on the pot creation page, and then assumed it was necessary for adding users, too.


Ok thanks I will add this to the backlog of features


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