Cut The Cake

Inspiration

We've all spent a countless amount of time at the end of a meal bickering about who should pay the bill, leading to awkward situations, hurt feelings, and a list of friends turned debtors. With our app, Cut The Cake, we've hoped to streamline the process of footing the bill among a group.

What it does

Our app takes the total amount of the bill and splits it evenly or in a custom amount, it sends an email reminder to everyone involved, it also keeps track of previous bills.

How we built it

We primarily used the MERN tech stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React Native, and Node.js) to create our app. We created it as a mobile app for convenience

Challenges we ran into

We wanted to add a lot of features, like a tracker to see who paid you back and a way to send money directly through the app, yet we were unfortunately unable to accomplish that due to the deadline. We also wanted the messaging system to be SMS text based instead of an email, we had the system halfway written but were unable to secure the API due to laws and legislations (we weren't a standing business), and we weren't able to fully connect the front and back end.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This was our first time working on a mobile app, our frontend was developed by first timers who started from the ground up, and this was our first time working with and implementing a messaging API.