Category Archives: Dev Blog
Safari ‘Top Sites’ Pollutes Google Analytics and Mixpanel
If you are the creator of a website or web application yourself, you might want to install the rack-preview gem for Ruby, or something similar. We discovered Safari Top Sites was polluting Splitwise’s Google Analytics and Mixpanel data. A couple of … Continue reading
Splitwise Pivots To A New Business Model
After two long years of trying to figure out how to make money, Splitwise has finally settled on a sustainable business model that will enhance the user experience of our website and keep ourselves profitable into the future. Charging money … Continue reading
New “Divide A Bill” For The Web App
We’ve been dying to improve our “Divide A Bill” dialog box for months, and a preliminary version is finally ready! Take a look below, and please give us feedback or suggestions in the comments. We’ve been rolling it out slowly … Continue reading
Make It Red
tl;dr: make your signup button red. When I first joined Splitwise, I had one immediate goal: to rebuild the iPhone app. I did have one question, though, almost immediately on seeing our signup page: Why isn’t the signup button red?
Preview/Feedback: Splitwise v2.5 (web)
Splitwise is planning a big redesign of the website and mobile apps for winter 2013, based on all the things we’ve learned since this past August. We’re releasing some intermediate changes to the website over the next few days – … Continue reading
ImageMagick for iOS – armv7 and armv7s
I’ve been working on some speculative projects for Splitwise this week (fun!). I ran into some issues where I needed to do more image manipulation than is possible in iOS, so I needed to add some magic to my project. … Continue reading
Debts Made Simple
Ever get caught in a debt triangle? You know: Mike owes you $20 for the electric bill, but he’s waiting for Anna to pay him for back for pizza last weekend, and she’s waiting for you to pay her back for those movie … Continue reading
Welcome, BillMonk Refugees! (In Which We Import BillMonk Data)
[Edit: As of Friday, September 14th we now have our Simplified Debt feature live, which is known on BillMonk as debt shuffle. Information on Simplified Debt can be found here. We updated the importer Tuesday, August 21 to handle debt shuffles and … Continue reading
Take (time) off with TestFlight
If you’re like me, you probably have this interaction at least once a month: It’s 11:30 pm. You’re unwinding after a grueling day of coding. Cue cell phone. CEO: I just met [VC/Angel Investor] and I need to show them … Continue reading
The New Monthly Summary And Google Charts
If you are a Splitwise user, you might have noticed this month that we added pie charts to our monthly summary emails. Ryan and I figured out how to do this the night before the emails went out – we … Continue reading
