UO-Me

About page and landing
Desktop Dashboard
Desktop social page
Mobile Dashboard
Mobile social page

Inspiration

UO-Me was inspired by the everyday hassle of splitting bills and tracking shared expenses among friends, roommates, and travel groups. We wanted to create a tool that makes these interactions seamless, transparent, and fair—eliminating awkward reminders and confusion about who owes what.

What it does

UO-Me is a web application that allows users to:

Create and manage users for shared expenses
Add payments and automatically split costs among members
Track who owes whom, with clear summaries and balances
View payment history and settle up easily
Manage user profiles with secure authentication

How we built it

Frontend: Built with React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS using the Next.js framework for a fast, modern UI.
Backend: Developed with FastAPI (Python) for robust, asynchronous APIs.
Database: SQLite for lightweight, easy-to-manage data storage.
Authentication: JWT-based authentication for secure user sessions.

Challenges we ran into

Designing a fair and flexible expense-splitting algorithm that handles edge cases (e.g., uneven splits, partial payments).
Integrating the frontend and backend efficiently, especially with CORS and environment configuration.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Implemented secure authentication and user management.
Automated the most tedious parts of expense tracking, reducing manual calculations and misunderstandings.
Achieved a modular codebase that is easy to extend and maintain.