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How it started

Motivations for building the app​

I had built Billy intended for these few specific target audiences:

  • Less tech-savvy users like my mom, who are only-mobile users, and prefer having specific apps for specific functionalities. They would benefit heavily from native notifications to keep track of their bills.
  • Techies like me who are less organized, but has a ton of subscriptions to remember to manage and pay on time. Many times, I also don't want to automatically renew these subscriptions if I don't use them much during the trial period.

My mom & I both like cute stuff, so that's how Billy has its name.

Initial Mock up​

Yes it looks a lot different from then! The original figma mockup is made using Native Base's Figma kit — and now I'm not even using Native Base component library. This mockup gave me sufficient ideas on what I want to display that I didn't feel a need to create a new one.

Content Models​

These are some brief ideations of the content models and entities that could be in Billy. Billy still has a long way to go \m/ although probably not everything would be in v1.0.0 of production release.

Content Models