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I had no idea where to ask such a question and I tried to read their terms of use / privacy statements / about us page to find info about how this popular cost splitting app makes money to employ people.

They don't even accept donations. Sounds very sketchy, but apparently they don't really sell data or even offer this app to businesses. Does anyone know how they make profit?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is from the Play Store listing of the app

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Now I really feel stupid, didn't check Play Store... thanks a bunch!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m curious what kind of data they are selling.

Like Joe always default on his payments? Or Nancy occasionally let Lucy pay the bill. 

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Write them and ask

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm never surprised by what data people sell.

I'm always surprised there's someone buying.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have made an assumption that they are making a profit. They could be in Startup phase where they are getting their product to market before finalising the monetization method in place.

The guess out of my ass is that they either plan to provide an information pipeline to financial institutions for customer modelling or be bought out by the current Dutch player called Tikkie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This could also be it, but startup phase for 10 years? I mean that would be believable if it wasn't for the size of the team.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

> tikkie

Heh. Dutch 4channers on /int/ were mercilessly mocked as skinflints for this app.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you pay people back through the app they take a small commission of the settlement. Other than that it's probably also not a very expensive app to run due to its simple nature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I started thinking about how much they'd actually make with this monetization scheme, but they employ 6 software developers and have a team of 4 in the upper management. The company has been running for 10 years with this single product.