Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses

Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by dalbotex on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:51AM (#20756437)

Great work, I like the simplicity!

So far I have two issues with your solution:

1. It doesn't accept my email address. Looks like the pattern is way too strict and doesn't allow any new TLDs.

2. The use-case I most often see Splitwise used for is trips abroad with friends. In this situation, expenses are often recorded while no internet connection is available and synced later. I'm not sure if IOU supports this, I haven't tried it.

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Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by janberchtold on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:58AM (#20756473)

Thanks!

1. Can you send an email to [email protected] so I can check you address and fix the bug? 2. We will be building mobile apps as soon as possible with this functionality.

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Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by Freak_NL on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:15AM (#20756577)

Please read up on present day email address validation. If you have a regex that is doing more than ^.+@.+$, then you are doing it wrong.

Don't validate the address beyond looking for an '@' in the string; just send an email with a confirmation link to see if it actually works.

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Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by shhsshs on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:33AM (#20756967)

I prefer the true email validation regex: https://regex101.com/r/iE0rF5/1

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Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by Freak_NL on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:29PM (#20758815)

I feel bad for the developers who run into that monstrosity and actually implement it.

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Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by dalbotex on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:23AM (#20756617)

100% this!

For reference, I didn't try any of the more obscure email address features, such as comments or quotation. My address simply has the form [email protected]

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Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by cvs268 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:04AM (#20756790)

> just send an email with a confirmation link to see if it actually works.

Please don't enable anyone to just send emails to arbitrary email-addresses through you. That's how your email/domain will quickly get marked for SPAM.

At the very least, put in place a rate-limit per email-id (and source-ip too maybe). Otherwise i can simply keep entering email-ids of people to spam.

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Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by cvs268 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:25AM (#20758112)

Why the -1's ? Isn't this a genuine concern to avoid getting on a SPAM blacklist? What am i missing?...

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Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by eddyg on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:54AM (#20756755)

I use:

    ^[^@]+@[^.]+\..+$

for a bit of sanity checking...

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Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by dalbotex on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:35AM (#20757593)

Multiple @ symbols are absolutely valid, as long as they are properly quoted ;)

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Re:Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses by janberchtold on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:21AM (#20756611)

Thanks we will change this!

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