Stiphy-Your Money Management Advisor

Inspiration

When I was 17, my mother asked me to write a check and deposit it in our account as she was busy somewhere else. I was very nervous for the task because I knew nothing about it. I accidentally ended up making so many mistakes while writing the check that I had to put 3 checks to waste, not to mention the amount of embarrassment I had to face.

This is not new. Students all around the world are generally clueless about some very importance aspects of financial literacy. A quick search suggests that lack of financial literacy goes way beyond than public embarassment. A report on the results of a financial literacy exam found that high school seniors scored on average 48 percent correct and according to the 2008 wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, only 27 percent of youth knew what inflation was and could do simple interest rate calculations. Source:

This shows how the lack of financial literacy is so prevalent among students. Due to this, many students are confused about their money and often times become a victim of fraud.

What it does

The chat bot provides bite sized knowledge about most of the questions related to financial literacy. From questions like the difference between credit and debit cards to how to save oneself to become a victim of fraud.

How I built it

I built it using Dialogflow and integrated my AI bot with Messenger.

Challenges I ran into

1) Finding the most accurate and authentic information. 2) Going through tons of heavy documents and summarizing them to bite sized information.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

1) I talked to different students around me to see which aspects of financial literacy is needed the most. I used that information due design my bot. Hence, I am proud of using a data driven approach. 2) I tried to make sure to make my bot as user centered as possible by providing bite sized but important information.

What I learned

Dialogflow, creating webhooks, using nodejs etc.

What's next for Stiphy

Apart from financial literacy, I also want to make Stiphy an enabler of financial inclusion by making it easy to make and receive payments using messenger,

Built With

• dialog-flow