MoneyFlows consists of a web-based tool designed to facilate new grads to manage their student loans and a personalized investment advisor (chatbot) using the Messenger API and a cloud tool with Natural Language Processing (NLP), built with

• Node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Express - fast node.js network app framework
• Dialogflow - a cloud platform that provides several NLP functions that parse user input and match them to the right response

Here is a quick demo of the investment advisor (chatbot):

MoneyFlows requires Node.js v10+ to run.

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

To get started, clone the repo into the local directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/ruhacks2019/MoneyFlows
$ cd MoneyFlows

Next, execute npm install to download dependencies:

$ npm install body-parser express
$ node src/index.js

Install ngrok inside local the directory, and start an HTTP tunnel on port 5000 by running the following command in a separate terminal session:

$ ./ngrok http 5000

Add corresponding webhook to the Facebook page in order to link to the chatbot.

Test the chatbot on Messenger!

Here is a quick demo of the budget calculator: