Inspiration
I conducted a research survey at the University of Florida to determine any discrepancies in the academic system regarding the Stock market; 2021. After my findings, and realizing I was fortunate to attend UF, I decided to join the Student Investment Club, where I got notarized and became Director of Recruiting for the Student Investment Club. Summer 2021 I interned in a wealth advising firm, in Aventura, and realized the massive benefits of compound interests, dividends, and other forms of long-term investment portfolios that were key to successfully retire comfortably. I returned to Miami with my experience and determination to implement a small, but future project that emphasizes on the need of saving money by incentivizing with not only notifications, "streaks", and rewards for achieving budgetary goals, attending financial literacy events, and even consulting with a financial advisor (coming soon)
What it does
I returned to Miami with my experience and determination to implement a small, but future project that emphasizes on the need of saving money by incentivizing with not only notifications, "streaks", incentives, such as achieving budgetary goals, attending financial literacy events, but I am even looking forward to implement some sort of reward for consulting with a local financial advisors (coming soon)
How we built it
The app was built with tailwind/heroUI CSS framework, React.Js, HTML, JS, and even a little bit of TS. The backend was hosted with Node, and, if necessary, a server would have been hosted with Express.JS.
I heavily, heavily considered integrating Vue.JS into the project, but this to me, personally, was more of a tribute and aid to Miami, rather than me showing off versatility.
Challenges we ran into
So many. Planning, Constructing, Deploying an App in less than 48 hours is never easy- but it is challenging and fun. Many issues came with importing React hooks that sometimes felt that Vue.JS's components would have been easier to implement, but, that would have been running away from the challenge. Staying awake for the entire weekend was more of an emotional challenge, but it was doable. Lack of sleep does cause minor errors that lead to grandeur mistakes (selectInView, useEffect, Links were a toughie, since syntax is so crucial in components that a simple syntax or spelling error could cause other components to crash, like a domino effect.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Everything. Being here, for me is an accomplishment. Writing over ~1000 lines of code, with no sleep, no W,A,S key was a toughie but mind over body. I'm proud I gave it my best, that even now, I look at it and while I still see its potential, I'm grateful to have been given a challenge and confidently say that I do not have regrets or what-ifs.
What we learned
to keep going. To teach, to talk, to most definitely use debugger. My table buddies were just beginning React, whilst I did have experience, and seeing their growth from create-react-app to a whole Tinder clone in less than 48 hours is not only impressive, but it shows that if there is a will there is a way. I learned that React really might be for me, even though I adore Vue. I learned to be proud, to not let your self-association get in the way of becoming more, of growing. During this weekend, Although I'm a self-proclaimed "Front-End", I will give my flowers to Addigy, who, while I initially was drawn to the Vue.JS usage, I was magnified with the Back-end Go. For me, I always somewhat avoided Java, and Python is amazing, but Go, Go will probably have my heart for the next step of becoming a full-stack engineer.
What's next for Futuro
So much. I look at the website and while proud, I see so many little, big, useless details that would just improve the quality of life. Initially, I was planning on using a location-based radius of 25mi for mapping the locations of the events for financial literacy. I have some E-Commerce lines with Vue that I would love to integrate on the project, such as public comments, API pulls (location-based, probably will need that) and hidden elements that appear once a certain criteria are made. My E-Commerce app runs on Deskree, a back-end automated program with databases for Users, their products, their information. But with Futuro, I want to fully try the challenge of Go as backend. Personally, I managed to have a Big Bank speaker appear to an UF Student Investment Club meeting, and if I manage to not only grow Futuro with code, but with networking, who knows?
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