Scred: don’t let money come between you and your friends
Written on March 10, 2008 – 1:02 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Every week we publish an interview with a start-up. We ask five questions, hoping the answers will give you inspiration and new views. Well, actually six questions, since we also ask the start-up to who he or she is passing the mic to.
This week we’re interviewing Kristoffer Lawson from Scred. Our UK WebTipr David Petherick met him during start-upcamp in London. Scred is a Finnish start-up that helps people to manage expenses and make sure everybody spend the same amount on e.g. a trip. Or as they put it themselves, a ‘community-oriented cost balancing tool aimed as a ’street credit’ between trusted people’. Check out an example about a surfing trip here.
How did you come up with the idea of Scred?
“Scred is actually something that we have used for years. I believe the first version dates back to dark ages. 1997 or 1998. We used it to track unhealthy geek substances that we bought to be shared at the office. Soft drinks, chocolate and similar. Then we started using it for other things too. Then we rewrote it. And rewrote it again. At some point we realized more and more of our friends were starting to use our system and our trips would usually start with the question, “So which laptop are we going to be running Scred on?”. That is when we accepted that we weren’t unique and that other people had similar needs, so we finally decided to unleash Scred to the public.” (more…)
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Written on March 9, 2008 – 10:37 pm
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