About

Currently a work in progress; this web application intends to take over from where You Need a Budget 4 left off. On top of feature parity with YNAB4, this project will provide an avenue to branch into other aspects of budgeting such as easily sorting out bills or payment as part of a group, and integration with 3rd party payment APIs such as Monzo to automatically update the user's finances.

My goal was to be able to gracefully transition away from using YNAB4 to this project, to ensure this was possible there was a vast array of precautions to take; things such as speed, stability, and security are of critical importance.

As of early March, the project is functioning as my day-to-day financing app.

Current Stage

The software works as intended and is closing in on feature parity with YNAB4. Although the very vanilla Bootstrap in terms of looks, it boasts most of the features seen in the accounts section of YNAB4 with additional features such as 2-factor-authentication. Next in line for development is to re-do the search feature, I had previously integrated Algolia as a search provider which has quite the neat features, however it increased the response time of searches too much for my liking and the added security risk.

Technologies Used

Core software includes: Laravel, Vue.js, Bootstrap v4, and Authy 2FA.