We already had trouble with scam ads on Adsense several years ago. While such rather obvious scams like the fake virus warning from 2018 seem to have disappeared, other scam ads have shown up.

Last year, a user contacted...

Back in ancient history, around the same time Pharaoh Chephren built the Great Sphinx of Giza, we built various modes of splitting expenses into Kittysplit (ok actually it was in 2017). You’ve probably seen these under “Split differently” when...

La vie nous réserve parfois quelques tracas – et gérer les dépenses d’un groupe de personnes en fait définitivement partie.

Supposons que vous partiez en vacances entre amis et que chacun prenne en charge une ou plusieurs dépenses différentes, que...

Les vacances, il n’y a que ça de vrai ! En particulier quand on part à plusieurs. Mais il y a quand même toujours un petit inconvénient aux vacances entre amis : les questions d’argent. L’un paie le voyage en bateau, l’autre...

Wer die Paarbeziehung nicht belasten möchte, sollte in allen Bereichen für klare Verhältnisse sorgen. Fairness gilt vor allem für das Thema Finanzen. Immer noch ist Geld eines der größten Streitthemen in Partnerschaften. Wer hier vorbeugt, kann sich viel Ärger ersparen...

Urlaub ist herrlich! Besonders wenn man mit Freunden unterwegs ist. Jedoch gibt es gerade bei den gemeinsamen Urlauben immer einen Wermutstropfen: die Sache mit dem Geld. Der eine zahlt die Bootsfahrt, der andere ein Essen. Dann kommt das AirBnB hinzu....

Native app or no native app? That’s a question that is regularly posed here at Kittysplit Towers. Kittysplit is a moderately successful webapp for splitting expenses in a group with 70.000 users per month. It is responsive and works...

One of our friend Caspar’s side-projects is an online scoreboard that works without signup or install. You can share scoreboards simply by sharing a link. (Hmmm, that principle sounds familiar, no? 🤔).

It’s a webapp and is the simplest way...

You know the feeling when someone’s telling a story that involves the cost of something in a foreign currency? “Can you believe that a sandwich costs 25 doubloons over there!” and they expect you to not only know the exchange...

There are some hard things in life – and keeping track of expenses in a group definitely belongs on that list.

Say you’re going on a trip with friends and different people pay different expenses, lend money, maybe even receive...

Good news everyone! We recently added some new features to make sharing costs in a group even easier. This is all part of our ongoing push to become the best and easiest bill-splitting solution on the planet and beyond. And...

OK, we don’t actually love GDPR, but now you’ve clicked on the link so let’s talk about it.

What is GDPR?

First all, you may be wondering what GDPR is? It means...

After 6 years of offering Kittysplit completely for free, today we’ve added some features that will cost money.

What does this mean for you? First of all: The Kittysplit core functions will remain free and all the stuff available for...

Today we spotted an ad on Kittysplit that opened a popup on mobile which couldn’t be closed.

The ad falsely claimed that a virus was installed on the device and completely broke the user experience.

We use Adsense for our...

It’s been the most requested feature for the last 4 years. It’s our oldest ticket on GitHub. It’s being launched today: we call it unequal split.

So what is it...

Yeah, everyone hates ads, including us. Some people have argued that ads have in fact ruined the Internet. Now here we are explaining why we’re showing them on Kittysplit.

First of all, we’re only experimenting, which means that some users...

We did not have a good experience with Launchrock. It failed at almost the exact moment when a PR opportunity came through, meaning that potential users ended up seeing an error page instead a signup form.

Also, quite frankly, Launchrock...

Split testing is of course a very broad topic with truckloads of tools, frameworks, opinions, caveats, and pitfalls. We’re not going to go into all of that, but describe a very easy methodology for testing a call-to-action using Google Analytics.

Last year we completely rewrote Kittysplit in Elixir and with the Phoenix Framework. Here’s a brief summary of what we learned and why we did it.

Version 1: Google App Engine

The first version of Kittysplit consisted of a...

This is just a quick note to say that we did it!

We launched the new version of Kittysplit. The old version, for nostalgia friends, is still online here. Your old kitties will continue to...

Erdem Cakmak, a first-time investor, is funding Kittysplit.

“I used Kittysplit for the first time during a holiday in Anatolia”, says Cakmak. “It immediately struck me as being very elegant and solved a real problem. So today, I am very...

There is so much goodness in the new version of Kittysplit that we don’t actually know where to begin. It’s been completely rewritten from scratch and after vigorous testing we’re now confident that it can be slowly exposed to the...

Finding a name for your startup is never easy. Many requirements must be met. A name should not be too generic, yet it should somehow convey an idea of what your company is about. You also need to be confident...

Kittysplit was made on computers running Ubuntu. The initial backend and the frontend were written on two indestructible Thinkpads which famously run the free operating system perfectly.

It was only later that Macs entered...

You’re probably asking yourself what a “micro-startup” is. We call Kittysplit a micro-startup because we’re not funded, and we don’t make money (yet). We don’t have investors demanding regular updates, and we don’t have employees who depend on a...

Hi everyone!

This is the first post in our brand new blog. What can you expect here? Well, we’ll sporadically post about things that may be of interest, such as: new features, stuff we learned, changes in our technology stack,...