BudgetNow

Inspiration

As we are college students newly learning to transition to working adults shopping for our own groceries, making our own money, and most importantly, spending our own money, budgeting has become a primary focus in our lives. Thus, we wanted to reinvent budgeting platforms. We were inspired by the CapitalOne API, as we could put ourselves into the shoes of the bank dealing with real data and rethink ways to change the customer experience.

What it does

Most budgeting platforms focus on the past, but our platform aims to help you calculate your decisions in the present and adjust your behavior for the future. We wanted to provide budgeting information that provides a different perspective on your spending.

How we built it

We used Python, CSS, and HTML.

Challenges we ran into

We had no idea how to use APIs to post and get data before this, but we were able to learn how to use the CapitalOne API to create customers, customer accounts, merchants, create purchases, and get purchases. This was challenging, but immersing ourselves into APIs with this API modeling real-world financial transactions definitely furthered our understanding of APIs, and we were able to use this data in our website to display a customer account's data. We also had no idea how to integrate our Python and HTML files together to create a website, but we were eventually able to accomplish it by using Flask talking to a lot of mentors.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to create a working website that displays information about a mock customer account, and we learned a lot about APIs and are more confident with using them now.