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Inspiration
As broke college students, we are always looking for ways to be less broke. But because we're computer science majors, most of the financial tips and tricks we run into go right over our heads (and we're too lazy to google every single term that makes us scratch our heads), so we wanted to build something to break down these complicated financial terms into easy to digest blurbs whenever we run across them on the internet.
What it does
Our chrome extension parses whatever website that is being viewed to look for matches in our financial terms database. When matches are found, they are highlighted on the website when the user scrolls over this term, a brief definition is given allowing the user to understand the material without having to take extra steps to research it more.
How I built it
Our database was built using Google FireStore and Go, and the plugin itself utilizes JavaScript/CSS/HTML.
Challenges I ran into
It was our first time coding in Go, so there was a bit of a learning curve as there always is with picking up new languages. We also wanted to challenge ourselves and compete as a two-man team as a throwback to our early days of computer science education in high school. A lot of the formatting was difficult to create in terms of creating the actual plugin.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
The chrome plugin is more polished than any Hackathon project we have submitted before and we are very happy to be able to present it.
What I learned
We learned Go and dove really deep into front-end development with the plugin. We have shied away from such front heavy projects before but we now feel fairly confident to integrate more advanced UI/UX solutions into our future submissions.
What's next for Financially.
We would like to expand upon our database with a whitelist for terms that the user may already know and doesn't wish to be reminded of, a "favorites" distinction for terms that the user may frequently reference and content-aware AI that can recognize patterns between the user's financial browsing habits and suggest further reading for them.
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