Sustainavestor

Inspiration

Our story with Sustainavestor began with a multitude of personal experiences. We knew we wanted to invest, but how can figure out how to do it sustainably? There is so much information out there, how do I know what applies to me? Given this time, we wanted to take this challenge head on and give both new and old investors a new tool to discover both what is important to them, and what companies share these values.

What it does

Sustainavestor is a web application that presents users with a quiz, and then computes customized results for each user. These results include both a personalized set of ESG values and a set of stocks that are from your quiz results. For each of these stocks, a percent relation is calculated and displayed such that you can know exactly how closely this firm shares your investing priorities.

How we built it

Sustainavestor is a full web application, with a python flask backend that uses a REST api to communicate with a front end system. We also used Python data analytics to combine information from both a S&P 500 dataset and Wikipedia to look into the top companies and how their values relate to your own.

Challenges we ran into

With a big goal comes a good few challenges. First, we ran into issues in how we wanted to run compose the project. We were also unsure in what data was both reliable and gave us the most information. We were also concerned with making sure that are quiz was as useful as possible, without having the user take an exceptionally long quiz. This combined with other issues that come along with making a full stack web application made this a rewarding challenge to overcome.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are incredibly proud of the application we were able to create and the data analytics that underlie it.

What we learned

We learned a lot about how we can learn more about investing and create software that educates others in the space. With software like this and others, we believe strongly in a vision that all investors can learn how they can invest sustainably, and feel comfortable that their resources are being used for good.