Raden

Managing Money Simplified

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Inspiration

When we noticed the amount of people that were unable to manage their own money properly, it felt as if they were throwing their money down the drain. We felt like we had to create something. This is when Raden was born.

What it does

Raden helps people manage their money properly. Raden takes your salary (along with your partner's salary and children if applicable) and puts it through an algorithm. Then, it displays the suggested amounts per category for your circumstance. For example, let's say that your salary was $200,000.00 Raden would suggest that your budget for Housing/Shelter should be $66,000/per year. Then, lets say that you buy an apartment downtown for $53,000. You could press the "Add Expenses" button and then "Housing" and then put the information in. After, you would click "Add" once because you only bought one apartment, then "View Total" to go back to the information. There you will see that your total has gone down from $66,000 for housing to $13,000. If you bought the apartment for $67,000 (or any value above the suggested budget), it will alert you that you have exceeded the budget for the year.

How we built it

We used Sublime Text 3 to program the website. For languages of code, we used HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Challenges we ran into

We found it hard to program a "Create Account" screen without our own database/server. We had trouble keeping user's credentials without anywhere to store the information. Luckily , with the use of a couple foreign JavaScript functions, we overcame this issue in a very simple manner.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Not only was this program very successful, this was our first and second hackathons. We were able to finish a working and beneficial program within 3 days while having little experience with coding!

What we learned

We learned a lot about the three languages of code we mentioned before (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Furthermore, we learned how to pass data through HTML to CSS and JavaScript so we could take the user information and run different functions and animations on the program.

What's next for Raden

We plan to add a Terms of Service for the user to reassure that their information is safe and other things along the same line. We would also like to make this a mobile app as well so that it is extremely user friendly and easy for everyone to use. If we are able to, we could even link this program to the user's credit card directly.

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