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Excellent idea. At least keep it mind during the design phase.If you want it to be even more flexible, you could make it a generic "holiday / vacation" app, and have a configuration setting to change the focus from regular holidays ' vacation to Camino.
Yes, the only really Camino-specific parts will be the tracking of how far you've hiked, and projections for the whole camino. For this it needs to know at least how long your trail is, where you are on it, and your average distance per day.Excellent idea. At least keep it mind during the design phase.
Thanks for the input, everyone.
I was thinking that the first version of the app wouldn't actually track things in different categories of spending, just how much you were spending in total. As you say, Rick, I think this level of complexity might be overkill for some people. When I'm on the Camino I really just need to know how much I'm spending in total, rather than breaking it down into albergues, coffees, food, laundry etc. Only then if I find out I'm way over my budget, I'd be interested in a finer breakdown to see where the problem area was.
There are many good finance apps already, like the one Lissie mentioned, so I don't want to replicate this functionality. However, I was thinking there might be room in the market for one which tracks total expenditure over each stage, maybe combined with GPS, and projects costs into the future for you, based on knowledge of the trail. For instance, if you're averaging 22 km a day and spending 30 euros a day and the app knows you've made it to Burgos, it can project how many days more your camino will take at the same pace and what the total cost would be. There could be a separate category for incidental costs, such as replacing lost items or medicines, that wouldn't be factored into the normal daily costs of food, laundry and accommodation.
Store photo of the receipt (if available)?I'm looking at making an app for tracking your finances as you go along the Camino.
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Has anyone any thoughtful input on what they'd like in such an app?
Thanks!
Brilliant thread. I hope you get some good answers here, H Richards. When we did the Camino in 2013 we didn't take any notice of the cost, simply forked out as we went along and went seriously over-budget. We found things very cheap, which I think is half the problem because then you tend to spend more! We did find ourselves using the dreaded Card near the end, which we had hoped to avoid.
We are thinking of cycling the Norte this year and will be more astute when it comes to expenses - right now, we haven't a clue what even a cup of coffee costs. So an app might be a good way of keeping track of our daily spend, although I have an android smartphone.
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