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avand··on The aspirational foursquare
- First one is standard

- Once you have groups together we want to be able to reach out to with places/times/deals to get you to go out. Not something we're advertising yet, but something we want to explore.

- To get your friends on board, we need to share it, so that's why we ask for permission to post to your wall.

- We do a lot of work async in sharing items with your friends hence offline access.

- When coordinating a plan, location is important. We don't use it yet, but will soon.

avand··on The aspirational foursquare
If you click "Sign in with Facebook" from the homepage we don't spam your wall. You can opt-out of spamming your friends, too, once you're in.

Would you use Twitter? Plain old email/password?

avand··on Ask HN: Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back
Piggy Back's goal is to make it ridiculously easy to create debts between people. This is our first version and can't wait to release some of the other features we have in the hopper.
avand··on Ask HN: Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back
It's unfortunate that BillMonk has stagnated.

It currently is cumbersome to enter in multiple debts simultaneously (i.e. splitting a big check). However, we're developing this functionality now and are excited to debut it.

avand··on Ask HN: Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back
Great feedback. Other's have noted the formality of those two buttons, and I'm going to nix them for something that communicates better.

Facebook integration is coming.

avand··on Ask HN: Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back
Facebook Connect is coming soon. Too much to do, so little time!
avand··on Ask HN: Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back
My goal would be for people to be able to create debts in any number of simple ways:

* An iPhone/Android/Blackberry app * Tweets * Emails (cc'ing Piggy Back)

Even for a casual night out if you could just snap a picture of the receipt and deal with it later, it could be really useful. Especially, where there's alcohol involved.

avand··on Ask HN: Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back
That's a fair point. Certainly with really close friends, there's always casual transactions that take place.

There are people though that you may not consider really close. While you're happy to pick up the tab and know eventually they might get you back, Piggy Back will help you take the guess work out of it.

avand··on Ask HN: Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back
Piggy Back was built to solve the problem of constantly owing or being owed by friends and family. It simply keeps a running balance of the debts between people.

The plans are to make it easier and easier to create these debts by leveraging email and Twitter.

Let me know what you think!

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