Split.io

Inspiration

In high school, we've run into many issues where some of us don't own cards and it becomes overly complicated to keep track of payments between people. We decided to create split.io to track payments, targeting primarily high schoolers or cases where one often has to "split" the bill.

What it does

Split.io supports transaction logging to record all payments, as well as OCR for computing transactions off of receipts and partial integration of Venmo and Paypal payments.

How we built it

We built it using React for our frontend, and Django and PostgreSQL for our backend.

Challenges we ran into

Our primary challenge was learning Django, as it was a server framework we were unfamiliar with.

What we learned

We primarily learned how to use Django, but also how to wrap PostgreSQL with ORM compared to using raw SQL queries. We hope to take this in the future to use SQL in more of our applications.