Inspiration
Our experiences as college students learning to manage money independently for the first time inspired us to create this tool to help other college students in their learning process as well.
What it does
Cash Flow Be Low allows users to input their target budget, and continue logging transactions as they make them. As they spend throughout the week, users will see if they're going over budget, in which case their budget for next week will begin being depleted as well. This incentivizes users to stay within budget and be more conscious of their spending.
How we built it
We used HTML, CSS, and JS.
Challenges we ran into
A challenge that we ran into was that either of us have experience with Javascript, as we're both only familiar with Python. It was a learning experience for us to try coding in Javascript for the first time.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of the design of the website, as well as what we've accomplished so far with the Javascript portion. While it isn't very polished, we're proud of our efforts in our first hackathon, and look forward to learning and improving as we attend more.
What we learned
This experience taught us the importance of understanding back end and front end connections.
What's next for Cash Flow Be Low
We'd like to get Cash Flow Be Low fully up and running. In future iterations, Cash Flow Be Low should be able to update the expense categories as the user inputs their expenditures, and the transaction history should also keep record of previous spending.
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