One thing that has been coming up quit frequently recently is the need to strike a balance between treating this project as a school project and treating it as a production piece of software as if from a software engineering company.
This has come up mostly as we realize that some things that make for good production level software actually cost money. Like real american dollars.
We really want to produce the best product possible and if we could maintain the illusion that we were a software engineering firm making a real life piece of software this would be ideal. But the fact is that we are not being paid for this (the opposite is actually the case), there is no company to fund development costs (all expenses come out of our pocket), and in all likely hood, the differences will not be missed by many (if any).
As poor college students this is turning out to be a difficult balance to strike. Do we pay a lot of money for a nice tls cert, or can we go the free self signed route? We have already invested money into things like presentation supplies and domain names. We keep having to address this issue and it is difficult.
I think that we are producing a professional quality product in the ways that we reasonably can--the coding. We have gone out of our way to use industry standard code practices in web applications. In this area the balance is clear, be as professional as possible. In the financial domain, it is less clear.
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