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Ask HN: whither Billmonk?

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Post by kgrin »

My roommates and I have been happily using Billmonk (http://www.billmonk.com) for years. Today, it appears to have vanished. I knew the service wasn't really being actively developed since the Obopay acquisition, but that's OK, it was perfect for us as it was! I don't recall seeing any "we're shutting down" message, and there's no status blog I could find - the company blog has been dormant for over a year.

So, with that:

1) Does anyone here know what's up with Billmonk - are they just having a nasty server problem that they're not motivated enough to fix, or has the plug been pulled sans announcement?

2) Anyone have contact info for the [former] Billmonks? (I believe they were a YC company? Not 100% sure.) My roommates and I have some valuable (to us, no one else) data in there... at a minimum, we'd like to have our final totals so we can settle up; ideally, we'd love to have our history.

Re: Ask HN: whither Billmonk?

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Post by novum »

I was an active, very satisfied Billmonk user with 9 or 10 friends. It was aggravating when Billmonk started choking; worse still when the degradation made the app more or less unusable.

If you're in the same boat, we've since moved to http://www.splitmybill.ie -- a service that has more or less duplicated Billmonk's use cases. Very basic, but meets our needs.

Re: Ask HN: whither Billmonk?

#4

Post by goberoi »

Thanks for posting this question here kgrin. I'm one of the co-founders of BillMonk, and like you, am disappointed to see that the service is down without any warning or follow up information.

I haven't been at Obopay since late 2007, so don't have much knowledge about how BillMonk is being handled today. However I reached out the company and will be speaking with them this week. I can't promise that there will be any sort of resolution, but I will strongly encourage the company to (a) clearly communicate to users about what's happening with the service on the BillMonk blog (outage or shut down), and (b) if the plan is in fact to shut down BillMonk, to provide users with a way to export their data.

Please check the BillMonk blog (http://blog.billmonk.com) over the next week or two for updates - hopefully the company will post an update there. I'll also monitor this post to answer any follow up questions.

Re: Ask HN: whither Billmonk?

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Post by ajj »

TeHCrAzY wrote: post #7

http://billmonk.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/billmonk-now-on-twi... A comment has been posted on their blog.

Its really bad that they've shut it down without any notice, at least for people to note down their data.

Re: Ask HN: whither Billmonk?

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Post by credo »

goberoi wrote: post #4

Thanks for posting this question here kgrin. I'm one of the co-founders of BillMonk, and like you, am disappointed to see that the service is down without any warning or follow up information. I haven't been at Obopay since late 2007, so don't have much knowledge about how BillMonk is being handled today. However I reached out the company and will be speaking with them this week. I can't promise that there will be an…

Gaurav, http://billmonk.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/billmonk-now-on-twi... lists you as the author of the comment.

However, I'm assuming that you didn't write that comment. In case, that comment was spoofed, you may want to write a disclaimer

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