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Show HN: My little app Owe.to

Now that my little app (http://Owe.to/) got force launched (bit.ly/ePbEb3), would love to get feedback from you all. I'm still a little embarrassed by it but I think it is time to let it out to play.

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Cool app idea! You should integrate with the WePay API so that when you remind people, they actually have the ability to pay.

https://www.wepay.com/developer/reference

Feel free to email me if you have any questions about the API.

That sounds like a great idea. Added to my todo. Thanks.

I love the domain. Perfect for a simple web app.

A few things:

1. I would move the 'About' tab over next to the 'Owed to You' tab. Stretching it across looks slightly off.

2. The last line of your copy could use a rewriting. Maybe "Try it out! Just use your own e-mail address."Or just take out the comma.

3. Is there a way to remove yourself from the e-mail list on the site? (not just in the e-mail.)

I second on #3. There should be a quick link to log in and remove reminders.

Also very curious, what is the monetization strategy here.

Doesn't seem like a business; more of a web app.

But maybe a small ad at the bottom of each e-mail?

That idea has crossed my mind but you need a lot of users to make it viable.

No strategy yet. Just solving a problem and it doesn't cost me anything yet.

1. The tabs are like that because I will be adding more tabs to the left (e.g. "Owed by you" as a way to send IOUs to people, etc.)

2. Thanks will fix.

3. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible so avoiding signup and login. Which just leaves me with the email to work with.

Take a look at https://www.whosebill.com/ for a more sophisticated take on the idea

Whosebill.com looks neat. I'm aiming for a simple, just-get-it-done approach. There isn't even a signup on mine.

Not having gone past the front page, I much prefer the 'owe.to' approach to 'whosebill'. Having seen both of them for the very first time today, I can see myself using owe.to over whosebill 9 times out of 10.

That said, whosebill does seem to have a ton more features, but I prefer the narrower focus. The graphs on the whosebill homepage are confusing, even if they're only pictures.

It looks good. I wouldn't say that it's _pretty_, per se, but it's far from ugly, and appears to be 100% functional. Kudos.

I like how they kind of poke fun at their own use of stock photography.

Great idea, Sandeep!

Curious: what are you using for the email notifications? I'd love to have a discussion with you about that.

I'm using the hosting provider for email delivery and already hitting the limits :)

Was looking at moving to one of the email delivery services. Would love to talk. My email is in my profile.

I didn't know Toronto had a TLD.

Also, I hope no one I know finds out about this app ;)

Clickable: http://owe.to/

Have you checked out ohdontforget.com? Basically the same idea.

Nope. Looks great. Thanks.

I must say its a pretty cool idea. Love it..

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