Financy

Smart Money, Smarter You. Elevate your financial literacy skills with Financy!

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💸 Financy 💸

✨ Inspiration ✨

We were thinking about how a lot of people in today's society are financially illiterate. We created Financy as a solution to this problem.

🤖 What It Does 🤖

Financy is a budget tracking app with short educational articles to help you reach your financial goals.

🏗 How We Built It 🏗

We used Swift UI to build a simple yet powerful frontend for iOS devices. We also wrote a backend in Rust to deploy a REST API quickly and efficiently using Rocket.

🧩 Challenges We Ran Into 🧩

We were very limited in the number of features we could do because in addition to time constraints, we also only had 2 people on our team. In addition to that, our frontend developer didn't know Rust and our backend developer didn't know Swift UI. We overcame these challenges by efficiently communicating the specifics about the API routes, what we wanted for the backend, and how the UI should be designed in the front end. We also ran into an issue with GitHub where we lost all of our front-end code at one point. We overcame this challenge by remaking the app from memory.

🏆 Accomplishments That We're Proud Of 🏆

This was our first hackathon, and we had a lot of challenges to overcome with the amount of work to be split among 2 people. We were both equally proud of:

  • How quickly the UI design was made
  • How speedy all the routes for the API were written

Overall, we were pleased by how efficiently our code was written and fully completed.

📖 What We Learned 📖

We learned that we need to have more concurrency in the programming languages that we know, so that in the future, when someone is done, or not doing anything, they can help program and finish it instead of doing busywork that is usually reserved for the end of the hackathon, like presentations and Dev Post submissions.

👀 What's Next? 👀

In the future of Financy, we hope to expand to more platforms, as well as write more articles.

👨‍💻 Local Deployment 👨‍💻

Technical Requirements

  • MacOs version >= 13.5.1
  • Xcode version >= 15.0
  • rustc version >= 1.74.1
  • cargo version >= 1.74.1

How to Run

  1. Install both the frontend and the backend repositories
  2. Open Xcode and run the frontend project
  3. Navigate to the backend folder and start the Rocket server

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