Building a receipt-scanning budget tracker with Amazon Bedrock, Lambda, and DynamoDB

The Problem I Kept Ignoring

Every week, the same small annoyance played out: I'd snap a photo of a receipt, tell myself I'd log it later, and then completely forget. By the time I got around to reviewing my spending usually at the end of the month I'd already blown past a budget category without knowing it. Even when I did log expenses manually, I'd misclassify them, which quietly made my "budget tracking" useless.

I didn't need another finance app with fifty features I'd never touch. I needed one thing done well: upload a receipt, get an instant answer on whether I'm still within budget.

That's what I built. It's called BudgetSnap.

What BudgetSnap Actually Does