Fips

A plug-and-play financial planner aimed towards students to help them manage their day-to-day finances

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Inspiration

Have you ever felt like you're just scraping by and not really understanding WHERE all your money has gone through the semester? Same. That's why I built FIPS! Your trustworthy Financial Planner for Students. We're here to help you understand and control your finances. For some, you're living with your parents, but for others you're living with roommates! Sometimes you have shared expenses and sometimes you don't! But it would be amazing to have all your shared expenses analyzed and categorized

What it does

FIPS helps students analyze their financial journey in a sleek and clean format. You can create different groups of shared expenses with your roommates or partner, observe and categorize your different expenses, and view your past spendings over time!

How we built it

Serverless Architecture

  • Next.js (frontend + backend)
  • Supabase (BaaS; database + auth)
  • cline + deepseekv3 (ai assistant)
  • OpenRouter Integration

Challenges we ran into

  • Unfortunately, I didn't really set aside the time to record a video or anything like that as I don't even have a working prototype (frontend and backend are not connected)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Submitting! I think there's some beauty in showing the world what you made. Even though I rushed this and was pre-occupied with many other things, I learned ALOT along the way :)

What we learned

Supabase Auth: I think I'll stick to Clerk or other methods that allow me to develop faster. I think I spent a little too long debugging authentication instead of developing the core functionalities.

AI assistant: While before I usually never integrated AI into my coding workflow, it helped me mock up some really basic things that honestly sped up my workflow. However, on the contrary, it also needs some guidance otherwise it goes haywire and you're spending an hour on fixing things it broke.

What's next for Fips

Hooking up the back and frontend. Stay tuned! I'm still working on this and would love for other students to have access to this tool :)

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