FYNKR

Fynkr: Your personalized financial thinker. Estimate your credit score, get tailored advice, and take control of your financial future today!

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Inspiration

As young college students striving to establish financial stability, it's easy to find tips and tricks for improving your credit score. However, none of them are specifically tailored to your financial situation, current credit score, purchasing history, and more. We wanted to create a website to allow students and adults to reach and exceed their financial goals.

What it does

Fynkr is a personalized "financial thinker" designed to predict and calculate your credit score. It predicts your credit score by guiding you through a survey, and based on your answers, it provides you with your credit score range. Once you receive your score range, you can access the "Fynks" (tips) tab where Fynkr offers personalized tools and advice on how to improve or maintain your credit score. These tips include giving recommendations on monthly spending limits, optimal payment timing, and other financial strategies.

How we built it

We built our project using a text editor, VS Code. From there, we utilized HTML5, Java, and CSS to create the frontend. We developed a total of six files, with five of them serving as web pages for our application. Additionally, we utilized Adobe to generate our own graphic content for the app. Furthermore, we used AI assistance to identify any bugs in our code during the development process.

Challenges we ran into

One main challenge we encountered was attempting to connect the user's banking account to the website so we could gain a more accurate background of their credit history. In order to complete this task, we would need an API that allows us to connect the user's banking information to Fynkr. Another challenge we encountered was failing to set up a proper database to log the user's credentials, such as username and password.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A few of our accomplishments include gaining more knowledge about the various programming languages we used and leveraging our resources, such as Perplexcity, to our advantage for learning purposes. Another accomplishment we are proud of is the overall quality of our website, despite facing numerous challenges, such as integrating the front and back end seamlessly.

What we learned

We learned the importance of having all our files easily accessible through GitHub so the entire team can access and work on them individually, thus expediting the process. Additionally, we acquired the skill of connecting an HTML file to both a Java and Python file by attending the mentor workshop. One final thing we learned but were unable to implement into our project was how to fetch backend code and integrate it into the frontend code.

What's next for FYNKR

In the future, we plan to establish a database to log and safeguard user credentials. Additionally, we aim to provide bi-monthly updates on improving credit scores and weekly email notifications of Fynks. Furthermore, we intend to integrate an API for connecting users' banking institutions to Fynkr. As users spend more time on our web application, we hope to develop new and more specialized Fynks.

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