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by prawn 5365 days ago
Not sure if an add-on meant that I missed elements of the front page, but it was very bland. You could jump people straight to a demonstration with some presets so they quickly get an idea of what's going on?

As @headsclouds said, shared office expenses are probably a good target for this and you could look to pursue that opportunity specifically with a domain alias and tailored copy pretty easily.

I am in a shared office situation and have expenses that would be perfect to track using this, but it would all have to be crystal clear for me to bother switching from just writing notes on paper (and losing them).

Can't think of a strong way you could monetise this so it might be best to keep it clean and ad free, then have it "Presented by (some company/service relevant to small business types)", whether that's a single sponsor or another business/service of yours.

Edit: Added another participant and noticed the colour-coded data when you mouse over their names. Make it a bit clearer that you can mouseover for that info - maybe a magnifying glass icon.

Maybe you could have 3-5 read-only demo sheets - friends on a trip, shared office situation, someone needing to be paid back for buying the game tickets (I could use it for this right now too), people chipping in for a joint wedding gift, etc.

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Probably not missing anything, the front page is text only (+button) currently. And yes, there's definitely room to improve it..

I actually never even thought of the shared office targeting before. It seems I should, it does sound like an opportunity for the concept.