Inspiration
The inspiration was from my US GOV teacher from high school who emphasized investing in your future at a young age. He wanted us to put money into ETFs and Index funds as soon as we graduated, and like the smart man I am, I invested in Gamestop and lost almost $2,000. The reason I didn't do index funds or ETFs was that there were too many options and it was too much of a hassle to research about. I know a lot of other college students are in the same boat, and wanted college students to not only focus on their careers while having a program to invest in their retirement at an early age.
What it does
Grower takes all your transactions and automatically rounds them up to the next number. It then takes the sum of all the changes from the round-up at the end of the month, and it buys partial shares of certain stocks. The stocks will follow popular index funds like the Vanguard 500. (VFIAX)
How we built it
We built it using Python.
Challenges we ran into
Because all of us were somewhat new back-end developers, we had a hard time trying to make a front-end page or connecting the back and front end using Flask. Trying to use Plaid to gain access to a bank account.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I am proud of the web page that I made in Python with barely any experience with Tkinter
What we learned
We learned about front-end development We learned about linking the front end and back end with Flask
What's next for Grower
Most likely It will stay as a personal project until I learn more about my career, so I can improve on it
Built With
- alphavantage
- api
- python
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