Financial Freedom Consultant (FFC)

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Inspiration

• Impulse spending happens in the moment
  
• We wanted real-time financial accountability
  
• Humor + AI as behavioral intervention
  

What it does

• Chrome extension that scans shopping carts
  
• Calculates total spend vs. user budget
  
• Displays live budget usage bar
  
• Generates AI-powered, contextual financial roasts via the Gemini API
• Supports Amazon, BestBuy, eBay, and Nike

How we built it

• Chrome Extension (content + popup scripts)
  
• DOM scraping for cart items and prices
  
• Node.js backend
  
• Gemini API for insult generation
  

Challenges we ran into

• Multi-site scraping function for websites with different formats
• Git merge conflicts
• Connecting our data to the API to generate insults

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Real-time budgeting feedback
  
• Secure API key handling
  
• Multi-site compatibility
• Humor intensity changes

What we learned

• Real-time feedback changes behavior
  
• Prompt design impacts AI personality

What's next for Financial Freedom Consultant (FFC)

• Deploy backend (remove localhost dependency)
  
• Publish to Chrome Web Store
  
• Scrape more popular websites

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript