Fin Assist

Make Investing Easier and more Profitable!

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Inspiration

Our team has personally invested in many financial ventures and experienced many losses. Mainly because we didn't have a proper way of knowing if our decisions were right. This led us to build this idea which we believed would be a better way for beginners to understand and safely experiment with many forms of investment.

Bitcoin is a revolutionary transaction model in the world of finance. A proper comprehension and evaluation of investing in bitcoin can help one grow financially. So to remove the hesitation and misunderstanding regarding bitcoin investment, we decided to build a transparent website that helps a beginner to invest wisely.

What it does

The Fin Assist aims to give the user a clear picture of Crypto and how to invest and where to invest. Also on what to invest so that they can make more profit from it. It's a beginner-friendly application, it also provides the user with live tracking of the crypto so that the user can make the correct decision at that particular time. This project also provides live updates through email which are stored in MongoDB.

How we built it

The project was built using the MERN stack

  • ReactJS used to make the UI - make the navbar, the price tiles, the menus, etc
  • MongoDB is used for data storage and database - we connected the database to take in login details and personalize the experience
  • GitHub was used to hold the code
  • GitHub Pages was used to host the website
  • ChartJS was used to plot the graphs for the currencies
  • RapidAPI was used to handle requests by fetching data according to user requests
  • Axios used as a client
  • GoDaddy was used to create a nice website address for our product

Challenges we faced

During this journey, we faced a lot of difficulties

  • APIs integration proved to be a hassle
  • Integration of AI with our project proved to be very difficult due to the lack of time and proper data
  • It wasn't easy to set the DNS for our GitHub page to a GoDaddy domain

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Accomplishments that we are proud of

  • We were able to implement the API successfully
  • We were able to use the domain from GoDaddy properly
  • The issue with the DNS between GoDaddy and Github Pages was solved
  • Even though we were in a time shortage, we pulled through and finished the project and we felt our results were much beyond expectations

What we learned

  • We learned how to build a project from start to finish and how vital a proper timeline is
  • Thanks to many open-source technologies, we were able to implement all that we imagined without much trouble
  • We learned how to properly implement many web technologies
  • We learned the importance of teamwork and how essential it is to build anything
  • We learned the creation of web Apps using ReactJS, using ChartJS to plot graphs
  • using GitHub pages to host the web app and using Axios as an HTTP client

What's next for the project

  • As finance enthusiasts ourselves, we believe that financial knowledge should be shared and must be helpful to others
  • We wish for our software to reach the hands of many beginners and experienced enthusiasts so that they can be benefitted too
  • We further wish to successfully implement our ML Expense Tracker model that can tell the user plausible investments and deposits that can help the user achieve their financial goals
  • We further wish to make the ML model predict the future prices of investments so that educated guesses can be made and the user can achieve goals. alt text
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