Inspiration
I was inspired to design Briefcase after I head the pitch from Josh, it sounded like a very useful app because as much as many portfolio dashboards exist, it's hard to come across one that encompasses a wide range of assets and allows you to monitor them with intuitive ai and a user friendly interface.
What it does
It allows users list all their assets and have them monitored by state of the art ai Bots that come up with insights and suggestions based on the condition of the holdings and the market around them. Unlike typical dashboards where users can either monitor stock, or crypto, briefcase allows users to monitor several categories of assets all in one dashboard empowering the ai with data good enough to make useful insights that can help investment decisions.
How we built it
It was built fully on replit with assistance from chat gpt as a product consultant. It was completely vibe coded solely on replit, thanks to the credits from the shipping container. The AI capabilities are powered by Google Gemini and the stock.crypto prices are got from coingecko API. We tried to stick to a dark business like design but also enabled users to be able to choose light mode if they prefer
Challenges we ran into
Unlike in Vibecode, Replit does not natively have the revenue cat integration and that made setting up the payment a bit stressful, especially on the appstore connect end. After a day or 2 I was able to get it working and fully integrated with revenue cat. I had some trouble setting up the auth too. Replit has an in built auth system and I tried to use it but I kept running into issues, took me a few days to correctly set up. Turns out replit creates a separate production and development database and records were not always synced for both databases which led to the auth bottlenecks I had.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I was so proud when I checked my revenue cat dashboard and saw that the first sandbox transaction had gone through, meaning the integration was successful. I was also really proud to overcome the challenges that I had with the auth. Also a few of the testers that tried it complemented the UI functional simplicity which made me really proud.
What we learned
I've learnt it's much easier to integrate revenue cat from environments where it is natively integrated so that I can just prompt an ai to set it up while I enter an API key. But manually setting it up for this project was not very easy for me since I come from a non technical background, but on the bright side I learnt how to set it up correctly so if I ever have to do it manually again it would be way less tedious.
What's next for BriefcaseApp
We have just submitted to the Appstore for review, if we are able to make it through, the next step would be social media marketing and content creation so that the app can attract some organic early users. Eventually I will run Facebook ads to hopefully reach a wider audience after successfully testing with the early users. Eventually I hope to scale it up to an extent where it can become attractive to investors. Once I'm able to secure investment the next step is to create a formidable technical team to fortify the future of the project
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