Wow. *takes a deep breath* Wow, has a year gone by already?

Indeed it has, and what a ride its been! It seems like just a few weeks ago when Amit pinged to say they were looking at expanding their team and wanted to know if I’d be interested to meet up and know more.

I was on a break after my last job and at the time had mostly been freelancing for the past Couple of years, so initially expected this to be another freelance / part-time gig but that wasn’t so. Now I’m probably among the rare junta who has *not* worked at a startup in the past few years, so there was just that initial hesitation, but a couple of meetings with him and then with Patan, and I was back to a full-time job a week later.

Oh wait, did I just say “full-time job”? Nah, I actually meant full-time fun-at-work, because that’s what it is. The team we have in place is among the best I’ve worked with and literally each day is filled with fun, laughter, learning, not forgetting the ice-cream and biryani parties every now and then. Yep, we do manage to get some work done as well

I was of course, aware of the Walnut app from before. During late 2013 and early 2014, I’d met Amit a couple of times with common friends (when he was on a break) and around Oct-14, he reached out to check if I’d be interested in trying out this new expense manager they’d built. I like tinkering around with new apps all the time, so I was more than happy to do so, and was impressed by its capabilities at the time.

Since then, there have been changes galore and it is unrecognisable from what it used to be – right from introducing the Bill Split feature to Exporting Spends to WalnutPay – the recent addition that lets you split spends and pay friends, pay your Visa credit card bills as well as Send and Receive Money for free from the app. That last feature is just fantastic, because all you need is a phone number to send money – you don’t need to remember any IFSC / account numbers or UPI Virtual Payment Address (VPA). Several friends using iPhones have found this useful as there aren’t too many similar / UPI options on iOS yet.

Of course, the list of upcoming features is a pretty long one and we’re all looking forward to exciting times in the months ahead!

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This post, One year at Walnut, was originally published at Atul Karmarkar.Com