After thinking long and hard about it, we’ve decided to stop allowing signups on Expens’d effective today, and will be completely shutting down the servers on February 1, 2010. All current users of Expens’d will be able to log in and continue to use the application until then, and also export a full csv file of all of their data. We appreciate all of our users and those that have given us feedback on the application since it launched in October of 2008. Expens’d was our first application, build by yours truly with design by Domo in a two week period. It helped us get moving down the road to having our own products, and we learned a lot along the way.
There are a few reasons behind our closing down Expens’d.
We don’t use the application. As a small team we don’t need an expense tracking application. The idea was given to me by Anthony Richardson who knew a sales friend of his hated submitting time sheets via Excel. That was the impetus behind the application – replace a spreadsheet. Over the past year we launched TripIt integration when they launched their API, and we’ve added a few more features. However, it was never given the love it needed to grow a paying user base. We did have more than 25 currencies supported as more and more people asked for them, and that was very cool. Not using the application on a daily basis though gave us an “out of sight out of mind” attitude where we were only fixing bugs as they were reported by users. That’s not fair to them.
Our mantra at Atlantic Dominion Solutions is: Collaborate. Enable. Succeed. While expenses and expense reporting might be somehow collaborative, I don’t really see how. If you do please let me know as it escapes me.
And finally, Scrum’d has become our flagship product. We provide Agile consulting and training in addition to Rails and iPhone development, and Scrum’d fits into that. Expens’d doesn’t.
So again I’d like to thank all of our Expens’d users for your support and feedback over the past year. Until we shut down the servers on February 1, 2010, you can continue to use Expens’d, and export all of your data in a CSV (not that XML stuff you can’t do anything with). If you have any troubles with that please do let us know and we’ll help you out asap.
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