Money buckets

One-liner: A shared/personal savings-goal tracker — money is organized into named buckets (e.g. “Vacation,” “Rent”), contributors put money in, and each contribution is logged as a transaction. Envelope-budgeting style, not a general finance tracker.

Origin: Two repos, frontend/backend pair (~2019):

• bucket — React frontend (CRA), never wired up beyond a blank <h1>App</h1> scaffold. Has empty placeholder files for roles.js and routes.js — role-based access was planned but never written.
• bucket-ts — Express + TypeScript + EJS + MySQL backend. This is where the real thinking happened.

Evidence from code (bucket-ts):

• Three core classes: Bucket (name, amount, owner), Contributor (name), Transaction (name, amount, owner, and an array of Buckets it applies to — so a single transaction can be split across multiple buckets)
• One working route/view: an EJS index page rendering a session-held list of buckets, with a commented-out POST handler for creating a new bucket tied to a hardcoded contributor (“Aiste”)
• bucketController.ts / transactionsController.ts and matching routes existed but the actual CRUD flow was still in-progress (main logic commented out in app.ts)

Status: Raw — real domain modeling (3 classes, a transaction-to-many-buckets relationship) but never became a working product. No auth/roles, no persistence beyond in-memory session, frontend never connected to backend.

Open question: The multi-contributor angle (a Transaction has an owner separate from the Bucket’s owner) hints this may have been meant as a shared fund (splitting savings goals across people), not just personal budgeting — worth deciding which direction it was going before treating it as a real concept.