Geld | Devpost

Inspiration

We wanted to create something that was practical and had something to do with money, and so we wanted so create some kind of budgeting app. We thought about why budgeting and saving was difficult for people, and we arrived at the conclusion that it was often difficult to see the results of saving in the short term, and the reward system in Geld is a way around that.

What it does

Using frameworks and libraries such as angular and bootstrap, the app looks modern, sleek, and with the use of asp.net and mongodb, our data is flowing to-and-fro seemlsly updating all data such as family member income and expenses, points, and graph data.

How we built it

The Geld front end was developed through php, CSS, HTML, Angular, and js. The bootstrap framework was used to make our website responsive and javascript was used to create the login and sign up portal. In addition many of the graphs and charts in the web application were created through js and the angular framework. While we did include php in our project, we did not end up using almost any of it's features as our backend developer used mongo db.

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges we ran into were issues involving our intial setup of the ui using only angular and raw CSS, and everything looked absoultely terrible. As a result we switched over to bootstrap to style our front-end. Part way through the project, we realized certain features were impossible without data from the bank, and as a result we had to fill the data base with dummy data. Furthermore, the project was really challenginng as a result of everyone having different skills.

Accomplishments we're proud of

We were sucessfully able to create a good looking front end and get the database to communicate with it, which was a first for many members on our team, as we mainly work on front end projects.

What we learnt

We learned how difficult creating a backend for a website and we learned the usefulness of using frameworks for various aspects of our project.

What's next for Geld

We hope to refine our back end as we consider it kind rough in its current stage. In terms of the business we hope to form some partnerships with the company and even the government to help implement some rewards.