January 21, 2026 at 8:55 AM

somewhat still functional iOS apps

pita: bill-splitting for ad hoc, casual events like group dinners

when I ate out in college, the general practice was for someone to front the bill and request payment based on what people ordered. between the receipts, the calculator apps, and the venmo requests, it was a pain, especially if people shared dishes or were covering someone for their birthday. I wanted to cut away every possible inefficiency in the process.

Pita

getpita.app

I created my own algorithm to parse the receipt text OCR. when GPT text models became mainstream a year later, I retrofitted the app to help with the edge cases, as receipts are notoriously unstandardized and often have weird creases that throw off text recognition. when GPT vision models emerged later on, I realized that if I were to build pita today, it would basically be a GPT wrapper 🥲

on the way: better multi-stop routes

apple has fixed this problem now, but planning multi-stop routes used to be annoying if I only had a type of stop in mind (gas station, post office, drugstore, coffee shop, etc.). when adding the stop, I would search for this type and have to choose from a list of results without being able to see where they were on the map, how far they were from the existing route, or how much time they would add to the trip.

On the Way

apps.apple.com