Comments on: billQ: Bill Tracking Application

By: Twilight Apothecary: The Web’s Best Medicine » Blog Archive » BarCampRochester

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:18:48 +0000

[...] Today’s presentations covered everything from Building A Web Application in Ruby to Graphical Password Encryption. Zack and Nick from Seen Creative showcased their new web application billQ. billQ a nifty app for keeping track of your bills, and has been getting a lot of buzz lately from sites like Lifehacker and Ajaxian. [...]

By: Twilight Apothecary: The Web’s Best Medicine » Blog Archive » BarCampRochester

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:06:39 +0000

[...] Today’s presentations covered everything from Building A Web Application in Ruby (Zack and Nick from Seen Creative showcased their new web application billQ). billQ a nifty app for keeping track of your bills, and has been getting a lot of buzz lately from sites like Lifehacker and Ajaxian. [...]

By: Felix Queiroz

Felix Queiroz — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:35:35 +0000

Good servicÃ§o if really for wanting can also send me a money.
Lol ;)

By: Ronny

Ronny — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:33:20 +0000

I’ll rather add my one-time or recurring bills to my internet bank so that they can be paid automaticly when they are due.

By: M. Schopman

M. Schopman — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:14:41 +0000

Wwwooow… must have taken a week to build this. Very nifty, using awesome forms, you definately see that this has taken alot of time to build ….

.. :”)

By: Jim Plush

Jim Plush — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:38:04 +0000

you’ll have to at least add support for HTTPS if you’re going to expect serious users to enter any personal data in

4. Does billQ use HTTPS?
Because billQ is a free service, we do not offer HTTPS or HTTP over SSL at this time.

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:36:00 +0000

@Matt: Maybe in a bit we’ll release an API, or at least an export to XML, but for now there’s RSS and iCalendar exports to grab the data.

@Nathan: That’s exact what billQ’s made to do. Just create a group, invite your roommates and add your bills (You can even put in %’s or keywords like ’1/5′ or ‘one fifth’).

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:50:22 +0000

Cool site. Haven’t seen this yet (sorry if its alreadya feature), would be cool if you could ‘autosplit’ your bills. So if you had a $20 bill and 5 people in a group, it would default to $4 each.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:52:18 +0000

Any chance we could get the source for integration in our own web applications? :-p Pretty please!

By: Clayton Scott

Clayton Scott — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:07:12 +0000

Looks interesting but the name “bilk you” is a little off-putting

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:29:29 +0000

Hey Evan,

This definitely isn’t for everyone. I mean, I know tons of people who do just fine using to-do lists or post-it notes to keep track of this stuff. This worked for us, and seems to be helping others as well.

Ultimately, we would love to have billQ link up and fetch bills or help you actually pay them, but for now, it’s really just a reminder system. Maybe in the near future. And just because your utilities aren’t always the same, doesn’t mean you can’t put in a scheduled bill with an estimate that you can edit when you find out the exact amount.

We definitely wanted to make the registration as easy as possible. Get people to see how easy it is to use, instead of all the headaches typical of signups.

By: evan

evan — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:13:19 +0000

I don’t really understand the point of this if it can’t automatically fetch bill amounts from service providers and let you schedule payments directly from the interface, like MyCheckFree or something like that. I guess I’m not the target market. I do have roommates though. Rent is the only recurrent bill that has a fixed amount every time, and I don’t really need a web application to remember how to divide by 3.

I was happy to see you don’t have to click any confirmation link in an email before you can use the service. It sure looked like you were going to, though.

By: Brett Gilbert

Brett Gilbert — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:49:48 +0000

This has a bunch of great extra features that help my roommate and I out like SMS text reminders. The ability to have multiple groups is helpful as well. Clean, simple, useful.

By: John Resig

John Resig — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:01:40 +0000

This is a great service. I’ve been using it since the beta and it’s been immensely useful. This is an essential tool if you’re living with roommates.