Dotch.app

This weekend, I designed and built Dotch, an app for scanning receipts. I made it to solve the problem of figuring out how to split the bill at dinner. This is the third iteration of the design and by far the most simple (see previous iterations).

Notes

• It was super nice to have an idea and ship it in a weekend + some: https://medium.com/p/87853030bb21
• I think the web is still the best platform for building mobile apps. The speed of deployment and global accessibility is unmatched by closed platforms like Android and iOS.
• Most mobile web apps feel janky, but Dotch feels sturdy and well-built. I used a lot of CSS e.g. fixed positioning and transitions to achieve this seamless feel.
• Vue is the best frontend framework, honestly.
• I played around with AI and wow! Writing code with ChatGPT + Github Copilot was magical and saved me so much time. I’ll probably never need Google or StackOverflow again.
• Another fun AI thing I did was generating voices for the About page. It was a random idea I had (why don’t we use more audio on the web) and I trained one of the voices based on mine (ended up not using it).

Play around

• View it live https://dotch.app (try out the About page)
• Code here https://github.com/helloworld-ng/dotch