Today is a very exciting day for me as I just released my latest product, ReceiptWallet. It’s been a long time since I’ve released my own product. This product allows users to scan, manage, and organize receipts. It came out of my own frustration in finding a receipt one day. With the help of a few testers, I think this is my best application, yet. I think it has the most user interface polish, the right feature set (for a 1.0 release) and works quite well.
While the basic development of the product took about 2 weeks (that’s about 100 hours while I was still trying to do my regular job), it took another few weeks to have the icons done, to write the documentation, and to do the website.
Unlike some of my other applications that have come out of my head, ReceiptWallet is the first that requires virtually no documentation and can be used by the novice user. Both my parents are using it and usually they ask me a ton of questions about how to use some programs, but ReceiptWallet is an exception. They’ve asked me a few questions and had a number of good suggestions, but nothing to drive me crazy. Normally my ideas are quite complex and work for me, but are far too complicated for normal people. This has also been one of the most enjoyable products I’ve worked on in a long time; I had a chance to learn new Apple technologies and was able to pour my heart into it as it is a program that I’ll be using several times a week, at least.
I hope that others find ReceiptWallet as useful and as compelling as I do; if you have a big drawer full of receipts and can’t find anything like me, then ReceiptWallet is for you!
(How’s that for a product plug?)