Context
Internal experiment: a personal finance dashboard for tracking income, expenses and recurring payments.
Goals
- bring transactions from different sources into one place;
- see monthly cashflow and category breakdown;
- track recurring payments and subscriptions;
- test charts and filters for future client projects.
Solution
The prototype was built as a small internal dashboard with:
- React / Next.js frontend and responsive layout;
- Django REST Framework API;
- PostgreSQL for structured data storage;
- Celery for scheduled background imports.
Result
The project works as a sandbox for testing ideas such as:
- new chart types and filtering approaches;
- recurring payment handling;
- secure API endpoints and lightweight admin patterns.
Parts of this internal dashboard can later be reused in client projects that need simple admin panels or reporting views.