Inspiration

We were inspired by Kakeibo, the traditional Japanese budgeting system that has been used since 1904.

What it does

A financial goal tracker that not only allows users to keep track of their finances properly but also includes a "Penny the Pincher" bot that gives financial advice.

How we built it

We used HTML and CSS for the front end, and used JavaScript for the back end. For our AI bot, we used Gemini-API with React to program our Penny the Pincher bot.

Challenges we ran into

This was both of our first hackathon, and our team also was halved on the second day. Neither of us had experience working with Gemini as well.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our UI is very clean and designed, and we have our bot running on Gemini Flash 2.0.

What we learned

We learned how to work when circumstances in life come up, and also how to create our own AI bot.

What's next for pocketPenny

Our next plan is to have the AI be a bit more fine tuned to our liking, including fonts, layout and more. We also want to get the link working to connect it to our github pages. We also want to make sure we can connect our AI to our website.

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