Beezang grew out of our own needs.
I (Archis) used to track our expenses on a google spreadsheet, courtesy my senior who designed an elaborate spreadsheet which worked perfectly fine. Well, just that there was this occasional problem of bill duplication and the hours you have to spend going through the entries when its time to settle up. And then of course, more often than not we would procrastinate on entering the bills. Plus you could use the spreadsheet only for tracking the expenses I shared with my room mates. But there were other instances when I did split bills with other folks. There was this one instance when a bunch of us had a get together. The get together was fun, but after that we had to start an email thread that went for around 10 mails to figure out who is going to pay whom how much.
Shivul on other hand used a simple note book with his room mates to track expenses. Data entry was super easy. Anyone who paid a common bill or got groceries made an entry in the note book. However, consolidating all expenses was painful. They would spend an hour or so going through the entries, checking if there were any mistakes and then doing the maths.
That’s when it hit us maybe we should try building something that solves this. After all money management shouldn’t be this huge a task. Beezang is still in a very early stage. But our goal is to ultimately build a service that is super easy to use and doesn’t feel like a lot of work.
