Get It

Inspiration

Leveraging dopamine-driven / everyday interactions such as viewing short videos and chat was the key direction of our project. We propose to incorporate this interaction as a frame with financial education contents in order to bring more fun and accessible experience, especially for young people.

What it does

Flash reels is Get It's main feature in which it provides beginner-friendly contents on various financial topics : Economics, Stocks, Tax, Real Estate, Retirement, etc. Users can swipe left or right to either save or pass the contents. These reels are stored in user history for further learning.

Get It also offers AI chatbot for discussion and quizzes. Based on user data, personalized chatbot engages the user in a discussion and quizzes the user to further assist learning.

How we built it

We built this application utilizing Django and React Native with SQLite as our database. In addition, we used additional services such as OpenAI's API for a chatbot feature and AWS s3 bucket for image/video containerization.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into a big problem with the reels where we weren't able to effectively load all of the videos on the current react native instance, and was forced to rebuild for the ios environment possibly due to tight native restrictions. Also ran into some trouble early on establishing the backend.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have finished an amazing app together after just meeting each other the day before! We learned tons of new concepts, polished technical skills, but most important had a really fun time collaborating together and finishing a cool application from scratch :).

What we learned

Our team learned that having a deep empathy for target user is important as it served as a direction throughout design & development process. Most of the teammate had the similar lack of financial literacy problem and awareness on dopamine inducing interactions. These foundations helped the team to grow a strong common ground and maintain a positive team spirit throughout.

What's next for Get It

Get It is going to focus on three areas (in order of importance) : AI Personalization, Gamification, and Social Interaction. For AI Personalization, our product will focus on refining machine learning model under the hood and also providing user interface for controlling weights. The purpose of project is to provide a fun and sustainable experience for better financial literacy and with that in mind, our product are designing gamification and social interaction features in order to help users maintain motivation for learning.