FlatMate

Inspiration

As students, we're navigating the transition between living at home and living independently. We're both moving out of the dorms into real houses next year (!), so we wanted to create a solution that would minimize financial conflict and confusion between ourselves and our future roommates.

What it does

FlatMate is an app that lets you manage your shared bills through a simple interface. Add a bill to update your roommates on their portion of your shared expenses, or add a payment to update your total balance. You can even invite new roommates through iMessage!

How we built it

FlatMate was built entirely using SwiftUI.

Challenges we ran into

We're relatively new to Swift, so we hit a few bumps while learning a new language! We also conquered so many merge conflicts.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're so proud of what we were able to accomplish over 24 hours! We're both very new to hackathons, and we had so much fun watching our project grow.

What we learned

We learned a ton! We had to adapt to working in a group and managing Git workflow. We also learned so much about bringing a project from start to finish, and got much more comfortable working with the intricacies of Swift.

What's next for FlatMate

We'd love to expand non-financial functions such as chore tracking. We're also working on integrating Venmo to allow direct payments between roommates! Finally, we'd like to add a deadline notification system to make sure every bill gets paid on time.

Built With

• swift