Manage Cabbage is a personal spending management web/mobile application. It's main purpose is to record spending and to give insights into how money has been spent. View the website here.
I've always liked to keep on top of my personal finances. Although finding an easy way to do so was a struggle. For a couple of years I used spreadsheets to keep track of all my spending. This was pretty messy and only held basic information for transactions (such as how much and the day). So I decided to put my free time to good use and create an application to store and manage this data instead.
When I started designing and coding the first website I didn't really have that much web experience and was fresh out of university. So I decided to use what I php which was what I had most experience with in web design. You can read about the first design.
After a while the website seemed like it was in need of an upgrade. It didn't help that the whole of the backend was written in php (a language I knew little about). So I decided to start looking at more up-to-date technologies and how I could better utilise my Java experience. You can read about the design and the further stages in this section.
Unfortunately the website is not being hosted currently. It also probably doesn't meet the specific standards for storing user financial data. However, you can use the android mobile application version. which runs locally on your mobile device.
I know there are currently a lot of different mobile apps and web applications for managing personal finances. I always had issues with these though, as they didn't quite meet the requirements I needed for them. By making my own, I can easily add features and meet all the requirements I need.
It's been something I've thought about. It would definitely reduce the manual effort of entering each transaction. The easiest way would be to use the open banking api but again, this would require certain licenses and additional costs.
I was trying to think of a name for the website when buying a domain to host it. One of my friends suggested this and it just kind of stuck.