iCashBox - From idea to App Store in 48 hours

iOS Mobile App: iCashBox

App idea: The basic idea was to develop an app with which it is possible to manage a holiday fund or similar. Think of the next skiing holiday, for example. 5 people go skiing together and each one throws 100 € into the holiday fund to pay for food, petrol, etc. This app should help you to keep track of the expenses and receipts of each person. It should also help you to calculate who has to pay what and who gets how much back.

Why in 48 hours? Even in 2011 it was increasingly difficult to successfully launch an app in the App Store without it ending in triviality. Therefore we had the idea to document the programming weekend e.g. with a time-lapse recording to create a short video showing the development process of the app. This could then be published as a kind of “look behind the scenes”. The hope was that a publication e.g. at iFun.de or the like would give the app a certain market.

Features of Version 1:

• Several cash boxes can be created
• A cash box has a name and participants
• You can view a list of bookings per cash box. (What has who booked when)
• For each person involved there is a profile with photo, first and last name, email address and his financial situation
• The following booking scenarios must be available:
  • User pays in cash box
  • Something is bought from the Community budget
  • User takes money out of cash box for private usage
  • User A lends money to user B (Settlement via community fund)
  • User pays for community out of private pocket
  • Deposit from Unknown (money found)
  • Money lost
• Display of current account balance of cashbox
• Billing
  • With deposits and withdrawals v ia the cash box
  • With optimized payments between participants

Achievements:

• We got our iFun-News :)
• We were featured by Apple in German AppStore