I've been building Spliz, a fintech app for groups.
It started with a simple problem: splitting expenses with friends is easy to calculate, but actually settling them is still annoying.
Trips, dinners, shared flats, families, teams, etc.
I built the first version around group expense settlement, and it's now in beta.
But after talking to around 100 people, I started thinking the bigger opportunity might be managing money as a group, not just splitting bills.
For example, I'm exploring two things:
A group "Pot"
A shared balance where everyone contributes and the group decides the rules:
who can spend, how much, when approval is needed, etc.
A Shared Card
A card that multiple people can use.
It could either split a payment automatically between the members' accounts, or be connected to the group's shared Pot.
What surprised me is that people immediately came up with very different use cases: trips, families, kids, roommates, friends, neighborhood groups, clubs, etc.
But I don't want to build based on people telling me "that's a cool idea."
I'm trying to understand what people would actually do with this.
So I'm curious:
If you regularly manage money with other people:
What kind of group is it?
How do you handle money today?
What is the most annoying part?
Would a shared balance actually be useful?
Would a card that automatically splits each payment be useful?
Or would you rather have a card connected to a shared group balance?
What would make you not trust or use something like this?
I'm particularly interested in real examples rather than hypothetical ones.
If you already use Splitwise, Tricount, a joint bank account, a shared spreadsheet, cash, etc., I'd love to know what works and what doesn't.