I think that of the names mentioned, "Ka-Ching" is definitely the most attractive. If you have to explain why it's named Tweek or Reggie, some part of the population won't even look at it twice on the shelf -- with Ka-Ching you at least get a second look, even people who don't ordinarily use apps like that will at least want to know what it is and will have basically no problem remembering the name to tell their friends who are looking for one.
The OCR is very interesting. Why enter stuff by hand when the computer can do it for you, even if you have to then correct a few characters? And your description of Quicken makes me happy I've never used it -- it is just asinine to make users enter all their transactions before you import the .qif, WTF?, it should prove much easier to download the file and let people point and click to transactions and maybe even drag and drop them in the right places when they find the paper receipts than entering stuff by hand.
I have not looked at Delicious Library in a while, but the guys there used to describe in general terms what they did to read the UPC thru iSight so they can enter the book in the library. I have the app, I like it even though I have not really used it a lot, but I ended up buying a dedicated, hand-held UPC laser scanner that uses Bluetooth because holding books to the iSight gets old fast. On the other hand, books are heavy, receipts are not.
Either way, I love your idea, and I figure once it's out, one mention on the Mac sites should get you plenty of customers, particularly if you use a portable file that can easily be converted to/from Quicken, like ng_nighthawk's example.
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Date: Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:08 am (UTC)The OCR is very interesting. Why enter stuff by hand when the computer can do it for you, even if you have to then correct a few characters? And your description of Quicken makes me happy I've never used it -- it is just asinine to make users enter all their transactions before you import the .qif, WTF?, it should prove much easier to download the file and let people point and click to transactions and maybe even drag and drop them in the right places when they find the paper receipts than entering stuff by hand.
I have not looked at Delicious Library in a while, but the guys there used to describe in general terms what they did to read the UPC thru iSight so they can enter the book in the library. I have the app, I like it even though I have not really used it a lot, but I ended up buying a dedicated, hand-held UPC laser scanner that uses Bluetooth because holding books to the iSight gets old fast. On the other hand, books are heavy, receipts are not.
Either way, I love your idea, and I figure once it's out, one mention on the Mac sites should get you plenty of customers, particularly if you use a portable file that can easily be converted to/from Quicken, like ng_nighthawk's example.
Good Luck!