The side-project that evolved

As a student, money is always tight. It was always hard for me to keep track of my finances. I was always aware that there were tools out there, that could help me with that...

But I'm a DEVELOPER! I can do that myself!

So, at the end of 2022, I started working on a tool to help me keep track of my finances. It was a simple web-app, that allowed me to keep track of my expenses and income. It was a simple CRUD app, that allowed me to add, edit and delete transactions.
The project got very usefull very fast. I was able to keep track of my finances and see where my money went. I was able to add recurring transactions, like rent or my netflix abo.
By tagging individual transactions, I was able to group them and see how much money I spent on certain things.

I was very happy with the result but it had one big flaw: I had to add every transaction manually. This was very time consuming and I often forgot to add transactions. So I decided to add a feature, that would allow me to import transactions from my bank account. By using the gocardless API, I was able to import transactions from my bank account. This was a huge improvement, because I did not have to add transactions manually anymore.

Over the time I added more and more features and at the current point, I am very proud of what I have achieved.

Features

• Manage multiple wallets
• Add and manage transactions
• Link bank account to automatically add booked transactions
• Monthly and Yearly Finance reports
• Manual and automatic tagging of transactions