sabato 16 ottobre 2010

A 2.0 true story

Barney: "It's gonna be legen... wait for it... dary"
Ted: "Guys, I found this awesome application on the market. It will be useful for our trip! Look here: MissPlitty, niiiiice name too!" :)
Barney: "I am awesome, not that Android app..."
Marshall: "Barney, how much are the flight tickets you bought?"
Barney: "2400 $"
Marshall: "Ok Ted, my best friend, let me see how your app works"
Barney: "Ted is my best friend... Ted?"
Ted: "Marshall is my best friend. Here we go Marshall: we are going to spend a lot of time in London and a few days in Paris, so I start by creating an event called 'london and paris' and set the default currency for our expenses to 'GBP', easy"
Robin: "What does GBP mean?"
Ted: "GBP stands for Great Britain Pounds, it's like CAD, for Canadian dollars."
Barney: "What does Canada mean?"
Robin: "Idiot :-) "
Lili: "Ok guys, Barney just spent 2400 dollars, not pounds, this is going to be a mess. Dollars, pounds, and then we will have expenses in euro too, since we are also travelling to Paris!"
Ted: "Wait buddies, I tried it, it's awesome!"
Barney and Robin: "I am awesome!"
Barney: "Ehy, I am awesome"
Robin: "No, I am awesome!"
Ted: "Ok, let's insert our names in the participants tab, so we have Barney, Ted, Robin, Lili and Marshall. Let's create a new expense named 'flight' and fill in all the data. I can change the currency for this expense, and put it to 'USD'. Oh, remember that at the airport I bought an ac dc universal adapter, too. I spent 6 dollars."

So they fly to London, and Robin pays a taxi for all. 45 pounds. Mashall and Lili have dinner by themselves and marshall spends 32 £. Robin payed 350 £ for the apartment shared by all of them. It's time to have some beers, Ted pays 12 £ for 5 beers. Barney sees a beautiful suit and he wants to buy it for everyone, so he spends 700 £.

They go to Paris then. Barney pays 80 € for a tour shared by all. 1000 € for souvenirs payed by Lili, who also pays 320 € for shoes for her and Robin.

Barney: "So, Ted. We have to calculate for three different currencies! It's a mess!"
Robin: "Indeed!!!"
Ted: "Calm down guys... just tap on 'Calculate' and... here we go: MissPlitty calculates and suggests for each different currency used in our trip! I am sending you an email with an attached file containing all this stuff... check it out!"

The day after, in Barney's office:
Barney: "Ted was right, this app is just like me: AWESOME!"

4 commenti:

  1. Been using your app for quite some time but one thing is missing, preventing it from rising to legendary status: online access. Atm, all the information stays on one smartphone, so there's no way for me to check if my expense has been entered correctly on said smartphone.

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  2. Hello and thank you for this comment. You are right, a lot of users ask me to provide online access and I also think it would be very nice to have it. Unfortunately at the moment I am busy with my official job and I don't have much time to develop new features on MissPlitty. But I am taking into account all users' suggestions and soon or later I hope to bring MissPlitty to the "legen-wait-for-it-dary" status! ;-)

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  3. Your app is the best one, but could you fix online rate download, i guess everyone would be pleased. I would pay for app without any doubts

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  4. Thank you Andrey. Unfortunately the rate download was provided by Google, but they discontinued the service some time ago. It was a free service, and as far as I know there are no other free unlimited services like that, so I am still looking for a free one. I will try to do my best to fix it anyway :-) Consider that the app is free, so I cannot afford to pay for a rate conversion service if I don't earn anything from the app. Thank you again and I hope to release a fixed version soon! ;-)

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