• Best Use of BlackRock API
• Best Use of Google Cloud Platform

We were inspired by our inexperience in the world of investments, and wanted to create a tool that would make it easier for the uninitiated (like us) to make sound investment decisions by summarizing the financial information we have available in a short and easy-to-read format.

The user has multiple options to choose a company, and all of them are simple and intuitive. The three options are:

• Voice detection
• Logo detection using a camera
• Text detection using a camera One a company has been chosen, the app interfaces with our server in order to process the company name, find a unique Ticker to identify the company if it exists in the database, and return financial information about the company.

We designed it from the top down, gradually turning an idea into reality, with a lot of teamwork and communication. We started by building an android app and connecting it with Firebase to take advantage of machine learning for image identification. We added speech-to-text for accessibility, while simultaneously working on a communication protocol between the app and our server, and the server with external APIs. The data is returned to the user and rendered in an html page for easy scaling.

This was a very multi-faceted project, and we learned a lot about integrating multiple languages and communication protocols in a short amount of time. Every single one of us is now capable of doing something that we had no previous experience with, and we are more confident in our problem-solving and team design decisions.