debt-planner

Managing Tool

Inspiration

Other banks have similar and/or worse functions like this applied to their website or App, so we wanted to implement it into a quick and easy webApp service.

What it does

Administers the payment of the user's debts through two different methods, "Avalance" and "Snowball". "Avalanche" helps you to clear your debt by using your biggest payment to do, while "SnowBall" goes from the smallest to the biggest. Both show the months that you would need to be paying, the amount of moths you would save and interest, and lastly it gives you a comparative chart that shows how much would you take to pay with small payments compared to the method you selected (Avalanche or Snowball).

How we built it

We used the framework "Flask" in python for the back end and mySql for managing the database, and then we used HTML, Python, JavaScript, CSS and Figma Tool for designing the webApp UI. We also used the API provided by CapitalOne, to simulate different movements of the bank.

Challenges we ran into

The implementation of Flask as a base of the inicialization of functionalities in the system, also CSS we had to implement a series of class sentences to fully customize the system.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The accuracy of the results of the calculations made on Python, the implementation of the color palet in the design and the interactive chart we designed.

What we learned

The previous knowledge applied to a real situation was surprising and the whole team's effort applied into it shows that real-world teamwork does work greatly

What's next for debt-planner

A fully finished and polished system that is versatile in the way that it can be used in different forms, not only with the user's debt, but with another debts and being a very complete tool and extension.