Money Buddy

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  money buddy

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Inspiration

• People need friends
• People struggle with finances
• Finances are so boring without a friend to help
• Money buddy truly is the future of banking and personal finance

What it does

• a really good (and handsome) friend
• he can be multiple people's friends!
• adds & categorizes all your bills
• scans receipts
• allows you to download your finances

How we built it

discord.py, tesseract, pillow, json integration, and sheer ingenuity

Challenges we ran into

• learning/navigating discord.py
• determining & using the right data structures
• time constraints
• willpower constraints

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• HE WORKS
• HE ACTUALLY WORKS
• he's very handsome
• overcoming atrocious documentation given by discord.py

What we learned

• using json w/ python
• async/await in python
• discord.py functions & classes
• python image recognition

What's next for Money Buddy

• really, the question should be "what's not next?"
• web integration
• visual data analytics
• financial advice based on previous data
• financial optimization!
• money buddy becoming the best buddy the world has ever seen!

Built With

• anaconda
• discord
• discord.py
• homebrew
• json
• macosx
• pillow
• pip
• python
• spyder
• tesseract
• vscode
• windows11