Why did I make sharehouser?

I was thinking about this recently.

I've been working a lot more on it and it's been a LOT of fun!

It's amazing how working with Ruby and Rails can be such a great experience!

It's really rewarding.

So the reason I made it?

Well I remember living in a sharehouser - I had a HUGE house - it had 4 bedrooms.

So I always had three flatmates which was such an interesting dynamic

and an interesting experience.

But it was also troublesome to sort and file and add up bills

and we were a little constricted...

One idea:

what if you could put a special mark next to each item of the bill

a cross or a dash - and it could also check that element and make sure

that it auto assigns them to that person...

A symbol for each flatmate - a cross and a plus sign? a dash?

That would be a nice feature and pretty easy to implement - using a HTM...

or some sort of technology that can deal with slightly different styles of writing.

So I thought if I could write an application where I could easily enter in the data

and then drag and drop (I remember watching the scriptaculous drag and drop demo => so

awesome) each of the bills in the list - to each of the flatmates.

I could also have repeating bills - that automatically copy themselves forward into the next

month - as I set the status of the bills for that month as "paid".

I wanted to make it FUN - so that I would WANT to do the bills and I wanted it to not

use up very much time. Then I could use my time for other more fun things

like writing web applications and designing user interfaces.....