Budget Wrapped

Inspiration

Our goal for this project was to simplify finance down into a universally viral form of media: Spotify Wrapped. We first had the idea after initially pursuing a more general finance 'home view' of your standing, and decided that it would be more effective if we could efficiently convey information through a personalized presentation.

What it does

Our project takes in a bank statement from the user, and then consolidates all the information into a simple slideshow style presentation. It uses a few humorous lines to keep it lighthearted, while describing to the user important financial insights.

How we built it

We decided to branch out and try the Taipy development toolkit! It was a new experience for all of us, but we found it exciting and educational to use Python for full stack development. We used ChatGPT to automatically assign various expenses into their respective categories, so we could analyze the data best. We also used ChatGPT and Taipy to develop the personalized chatbot at the end of the wrapped.

Challenges we ran into

Despite Taipy being an intriguing and exciting development process, it took us a while to finally figure out a few of the kinks. Specifically, passing variables between various pages on the website involved managing States. This was a massive high moment of the projects development, when we figured it out.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

One of the largest accomplishments we're proud of in this Hackathon was our rapid learning pace. We decided to use multiple new technologies, including ChatGPT, Taipy, as well as Sigma. None of us had ever used any of these technologies for development, so learning by doing was certainly the focus of this event.

What we learned

We learned that despite challenges, roadblocks, and hinderances, with a lot of determination (and an unhealthy amount of coffee) anything is possible. We're excited to come back next year for HowdyHack 11!

What's next for Budget Wrapped

One main feature we'd like to include in our service is longer term projections, goals, and tracking. The ability for a user to see long term trends in their spending would help users to be mindful of their finances. Also, within the context of the "Spotify Wrapped" idea, a year long wrapped would be really exciting for the user.