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 .. rubric:: keeping track of my children's money since 2013
+
+Why
+===
+
+I want to write a from-scratch, non-tutorial web application in go. This is my
+attempt at such an endeavor.
+
+
+What
+====
+
+The main point of this app should be the following:
+    * All should be able to see:
+        - how much each child has earned
+        - show results for a single child
+    * Authenticated users should be able to:
+        - add money to a given child by surfing to their page and clicking on
+          coins
+    * The app should:
+        - be resilient to restart
+            - on write, store info in .json db
+
+            - on start up deal with parsing and empty data.json files
+        - look better than what I've written in the past