Fantasy Finances

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  This is the logo we created for the website

We were inspired by the recently popular financial helper Cleo. Cleo is an AI that communicated with its users and helps them reduce spending and save money. We wanted to follow this concept, by creating a product that helps users financially while also being entertaining to interact with.

Fantasy Finances has a simulated stock market which users can buy and sell from using their given virtual currency. The simulated stock market pulls real prices to increase realism. Users can use profits to buy buildings in a town-building game.

The website is built using HTML, Javascript, and CSS. In order to pull the stock data, we used the Alpha Vantage API.

Our main challenge was implementing the API into our code, and extracting the correct stock data we needed.

We are proud of the multidimensional aspects of the website; we were able to integrate a virtual stock market into an engaging game. We feel that it is a pleasant user experience.

We learned how to implement APIs into our web applications, and we increased our skills in firebase as well as website development.

We hope to keep improving the website by upgrading the aesthetics as well as increasing the amount of educational resources available. A big goal is to also implement a user's real life financial data, using the plaid API. This will allow us to get user transactions, and help them save money in real life.

Built With

• alphavantageapi
• css
• firebase
• html5
• javascript