Budget Buddy

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  Home page

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  Budget pie chart

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  Savings and other funds

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  Expenses list

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  Savings goal pie chart

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  Transaction list

Inspiration

For this without a traditional bank account, budgeting can be difficult. Most modern budgeting apps are made with the express intention of tethering themselves to bank accounts, not peer to peer spending platforms. This poses a complication for the 5.6 million US households who do not use banks in their finances.

What it does

Our app takes data in a similar format to the data in venmo, cashapp, paypal, and other P2P spending platforms. It then uses this data to populate a visualization of your spending, along with parititions allowing you to better budget. Providing the user far more insight into their spending on average through these P2P platforms.

How we built it

We build our app in Flutter using the Dart language to construct the UI aspects, and create a fast and efficent user experience.

Challenges we ran into

Our biggest challenge was getting the environment to work across multiple systems, this is where version control came into play as we needed to ensure each team member was being updated with the necessary source code as we made changes. Some changes to code impacted others experience, so getting the app to function after major changes were made on one system to another proved to be cumbersome. Also, for most of us this was our first time working with flutter, so getting the hang of the framework was a challenge.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of the clean and responsive UI that we were able to make. It is both easy for the user to navigage, but also responsive - so they aren't waiting for the app to load and update. We are also happy that our app is able to efficently import finanical data, population the necessary feilds to design a budget that makes sense to each user.

What we learned

We learned how to use flutter to buld an Andriod app. Also version control across multiple different people for the fastpace project. Another important lession was UI/UX design concepts. We wanted the app to be both appealing and easy to navigate.

What's next for Budget Buddy

For our next iteration we want to integrate Klarna spending into this app. We find that many people who use P2P spending apps for their finances would likely be exposed to the many Klarna "buy now, pay later" ads. So adding a feature were we can quickly compute what is owed on these loans and leveraging someone's budget in order to quickly pay it off would be very useful to our hypothetical userbase.

Built With

• android
• flutter