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For potential financial scams or risky investments, shows prominent warning with explanation to protect users
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Shows long-term positive potential impacts in easy-to-understand language
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Just open any webpage around economic policies, or financial news plugin automatically goes over the page and prepares AI-generated insight
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Shows long-term negative potential impacts in easy-to-understand language. Also shows related links for exploring more
Inspiration
- Need for unbiased explanation of economic policies, financial news, and their long-term impact inspired
- Empower users with insights to help them make informed opinions and decisions.
- Help warn users about high-risk investment opportunities and financial scams
What it does
- Uses AI to extract context, performs a web lookup, and shows the insights and link
- Chrome extension that analyzes web pages containing economics or finance-related news.
- provides long-term impact predictions for policies based on historical data
How we built it
- Long-context capable Gemini LLM integration for analysis and insight generation on long web pages
- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the user interface.
- Chrome Extensions API for background scripting and popup interactions.
Challenges we ran into
- Ensuring seamless and unobtrusive design for quick user adoption
- Limiting insight generation to only financial/economic articles
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Successfully creating a user-friendly plugin with a visually appealing design.
- Seamlessly integrating AI-driven insights into a browser extension.
- Providing real-time, actionable financial insights directly within the user's workflow.
What we learned
- Privacy concerns need to be addressed to user trust
What's next for FinSights (Financial Insights)
- Blocklisted sites - to allow user to configure some sites where extension is NOT triggered.
- Improved AI Models: Enhance AI capabilities for more accurate and nuanced insights.
- Interactive Visuals: Incorporate charts and data visualizations for long-term policy impacts
- Mobile Support: Explore possibilities for extending functionality to mobile browsers.
- Direct chat capabilities to allow user to ask follow-up questions
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