📈 Elevest — About the Project

Transforming everyday spending into long-term wealth, powered by automation, intelligence, and beautiful design.

⭐ Inspiration

The inspiration for Elevest came from a simple question:

“Why can't building wealth feel as effortless and intuitive as using Apple Wallet?”

Most people want to invest, but:

• They don’t know where to start
  
• They don’t understand ETFs or risk profiles
  
• Budgeting feels overwhelming
  
• And financial dashboards are often boring or confusing
  

We wanted to build a system that transforms spare change, salary leftovers, and personal spending habits into a live, visually engaging investment projection.

Elevest was built to make finance feel:

• Clear
  
• Predictable
  
• Beautiful
  
• And emotionally rewarding
  

💡 What it does

Elevest turns everyday financial behavior into an automated investing engine.

Key Features

• Smart Round-Up Engine
  Rounds every transaction to the nearest dollar and treats the spare change as weekly investment contributions.

• Month-Based Budgeting
  Log transactions month-by-month and see real-time financial patterns.

• Salary-Based Auto-Investing
  Input salary → Elevest automatically allocates leftover funds toward savings and investing.

• Risk-Profiling & ETF Recommendations
  Users choose between Conservative / Balanced / Aggressive profiles and get ETF suggestions with expected annual returns.

• Live 52-Week Investment Projection
  Using compound interest: \[ A = P(1 + r/n)^{nt} \]

• Profit Analytics Dashboard
  Elevest displays:

  • Total contributions
    
  • Projected profit
    
  • Average weekly profit
    
  • ETF performance differences
    

• Apple-Style Interactive UI
  Smooth animations, glassmorphism, floating gradient orbs, and a full-width financial graph.

🛠️ How we built it

Tech Stack

• React + Vite — fast development and reactive UI
  
• Recharts — for animated charts and projections
  
• CSS (glassmorphism + gradients) — for a premium Apple-like aesthetic
  
• JavaScript financial modeling — for projections, round-ups, and ETF logic
  

Core Systems

• Round-Up Calculator
• Salary Allocation Engine
• Monthly Transaction Manager
• ETF Return Model
• 52-Week Compounding Projection Generator
• Real-Time State Management using: ```js useState() useEffect() useMemo()

Built With

• css3
• html5
• javascript
• node.js
• react
• recharts
• vite