Brilliant: students will never have to argue over the beer bill again
Student house, shared fridge, beer supplies: a recipe for trouble. Everyone has to keep track of how much they have drunk and then settle up with one another. But there is always a crate missing, the deposit hasn’t been accounted for, or a few beers have accidentally been forgotten. The solution: the Turff app, created by a few clever students.
The app was created by Henry Tang, Dimitri Stallenberg and Willem Li. They know exactly what they are talking about, because they themselves lived in a student house where the costs of bolognese chips, Grolsch bottles and toilet paper were shared. Usually, this is managed with greasy notebooks, where everyone writes down their consumption (except for toilet paper and dishwashing detergent, of course), and every so often someone sits down at the computer to add up the costs and settle them with the volunteer who did the shopping.
Shared fridge
Settling up and paying was a hassle, the trio realised, so they developed their app to solve the problem. Turff is now used in 1,500 student houses across the country. A tablet is placed on the shared fridge or in the living room, allowing everyone to easily keep track of what has been used. At the end of the month, the app calculates how much everyone has to pay. You can also check the state of the supplies at any time and see who the biggest user of the shared peanut butter or Nespresso pods is. Student houses can enter which groceries are shared and which are not.
Nothing
The best part is: Turff is free. A student house only pays a deposit for the tablet and a one-off administration fee. After that, the app costs absolutely nothing, because advertisements are shown on the tablet in between—and those pay the bill at Turff headquarters. The three clever students plan to expand significantly. They have already arranged for students in Delft and Leiden to be able to have their dwindling supplies replenished automatically: once the beer is gone, full crates are delivered again that same day.
By now, 6,000,000 tallies have already been processed.
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Source: Quote, image: Turff
