Inspiration
~meme
Snap's mission to help teach snapchatters something new about the world around them. There's no better teacher than your friends. And of course memes. The meme man was also an inspiration.
What it does
It pulls stock data from various sources into a news ticker that looks more familiar to the younger generation. you can search for the most recent stock data for any stock quote then you're able to bring that feed into a snapchat lens and is uses snapkit so now in your lens you have not only the latest stock quotes, it's the ones you chose. you are now the offical stonks news anchor for your friends.
How we built it
react-native sample app, yahoo finance api, reddit api
Challenges we ran into
i tried 3d modeling the meme man face and making some blendshapes to let people talk as him but that didnt turn out so i dropped it. also finding a free finance api was harder than i thought.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
it works A-Z and its in testlight with my friends using it :)
What we learned
snapkit is very easy to integrate and typescript is even worse than i remember
What's next for Stonks
Expand the concept to more than just stonks. The concept is simple.
- App get data.
- Lens show data
There's a bunch of free government APIs that have some cool data. I'd like to include metrics from here some how.
https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?bls
https://datausa.io/about/api
https://api.data.gov
https://api.open.fec.gov/developers
https://api.usaspending.gov
Built With
- react-native
- snapkit
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