DoughTrackerWeb

The Works

DoughTracker is an app designed to keep track of your expenses. DoughTracker allows you to text 769-206-976 to create an account and add transactions. The web app itself also facilitates these actions and also displays your transactions and monthly expenses. The app updates in real time as transactions are added.

Backend

DoughTracker is built on Meteor.js, a platform based on Node.js that uses websockets to keep client data synced with server data in real time. We used Twilio webhooks in order to create new transactions from text messages. Meteor.js supports MongoDB for storage out of the box. Our entire web stack was hosted on an amazon EC2 instance and can be reached from our domain.com domain.

What We Learned

Meteor.js is a client heavy platform. Using Meteor taught us how to work with data from both the server and client side. Although creating client-generated html was quite a pain, the results were really rewarding.

Built With

Submitted to

HackState
- Winner Amazon Web Services - Best Use of AWS
- Winner Second Place

Created by

My contribution consisted mainly in backend work. I setup the ec2 instance, configured the domain, and coded the javascript for the client and server logic.

Harrison Hunter
My part on the team was mainly design although I did contribute to some of the Javascript. I was also the only one on the team who had ever used Twilio texting service before so I helped with the setting up of the app phone number.
I created mock-ups in Photoshop to help visualize what we were trying to create. I then converted my mock-ups into CSS and HTML.

Holt Hunter

Updates

Harrison Hunter started this project — Sep 24, 2017 12:55 PM EDT

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