Idea Not Implemented

How many times you have thought of an idea and few months or years later you have seen almost the same idea get implemented (developed by someone else somewhere)?

Well, I'm seeing one right now. Few years back (somewhere in Jan-Feb of 2004), me and my friends SG and KM were juggling some thoughts on how to track bills & expenses between friends, as we were (and still are) spending money (lots of them) on food, shopping, movies etc together. Since we were staying separate, tracking all of these expenses were really a pain and moreover fighting with Excel to do this was even more frustrating. We decided to pull our programming hat and write a small application to accomplish this. Well, we are still writing one... :)

Meanwhile, a few smart programmers (who actually implement their idea) did a great job in tracking these expenses via an online application called BillMonk. Check out their website and it is awesome! I and my friends are regular users of BillMonk now.

I wish we had forced ourselves hard enough to transform that idea into an application.

Well, there is always another idea!