My wife planned a trip with 5 friends on WhatsApp, so I built this

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So this actually started with my wife and her 5 friends planning a weekend trip to New York.

One person was buying the air tickets, another booked the Broadway show, someone else the hotel etc. And my wife was basically managing the whole who paid what / who owes who thing in Whatsapp

I was watching this and thought... there has to be a simpler way. Especially without asking 6 people to download another app and create accounts.

So I spent about a week building a prototype, then few more days cleaning things up and publishing it.

Thats how SpendBulb happened :)

Its local-first, works offline and you dont need to login. If you want to share the trip, one person can create a link and everyone else can add/edit expenses and payments in realtime. They dont need accounts either.

Here is a sample trip you can mess around with:

And the app:

Still very early. Would love to know what you guys think, or what I'm missing.

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I am planning to add some data visualizations as well.

But focus is to keep it simple