The project will focus on developing a financial budgeting web app that aims to help the user keep track of their money and their spending categories! Existing inspirations for this project would be YNAB or Intuit's mint.
This project is currently in development and is subject to being updated.
Ideally, there are certain features that we would like to implement into this project to both develop knowledge and also to attempt and make the app as complete as possible.
Here is a list of features that would be great to have in an ideal budgeting app:
- Adding various bank accounts and/or investment accounts
- Spending categories
- Graphs to visualize spending habits / financial data
- Recurring payments
- Cleared / uncleared charges
The list of features are only suggestions and are also tentative to change.
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