It all started with sharing ongoing expenses at home. With today's soaring real estate prices, more and more people are sharing living arrangements. For some, this means renting with roommates, but increasingly, people are choosing to buy homes with friends and family as an affordable way to realize their dream of home ownership. Lawyers like to call these arrangements joint tenancy and tenants in common.
But it turned out to be more. People share expenses all the time. Maybe you're taking a multi-family vacation, everyone's chipping in for that engagement party or baby shower - or maybe you just ordered lunch at the office.
Nothing spoils the fun quite like arguing about money and sometimes people feel like party-poopers if they even ask questions about it. Sometimes you might suspect someone missed something, but you worry they'll take your questions the wrong way.
Tracking expenses used to be hard. You might toss your receipts in a shoebox and forget about them until someone asks about it. Sometimes they fade and get hard to read. Maybe you never got a receipt at all. Nobody wants to come back from vacation to a pile of bookkeeping.
Derek is fascinated with building all kinds of things to make life better and easier. After getting his first computer, he knew building software was what he wanted to do and he immediately started learning how to program it. These days, he mostly works with Toronto-area tech startups, building custom software all the way from an idea to fully operational.
Snappy Split started as a personal project that he uses almost every day and has since grown into something he hopes you'll find useful too.