FlavoWorks

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Spending money. We do it nearly every day of our lives. It is a need for living in the modern world.

I mainly started this project to

• capture my financial data from multiple sources and
• Didn’t like idea of financial data being held by 3rd party company
• Building tool to use for the long term
• Also just kinda fun to code J

I'm fully aware companies are out there that do this stuff for you, but what if they shut down? Example: Mint.

•Python CLI application •Data has to be loaded in “manually” (currently through .csv files) (this is the largest turn off for most users) •SQLite backend, stored in a singular .db file

•By being in control of my data and software, I have more flexibility in performing the type of analysis I want to perform

•Wanted to be able to have very specific spending categories!!!

•Fast food vs. restaurants vs. grocery

•Niche tracking of shopping spending

•Analysis on investments and account balances

Early on I chose to use a GUI. I used the Tkinter framework. I got basic functionality working for many of the sub menus, although to a much lesser extent than the program state was today.\

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This is a solo project and I've definitely moved beyond dedicating more than an hour at a time to it.

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