Hamster Wealth Backend

Our Website

This React app is hosted on Netlify
Hamster Wealth was built for the Chronicle 2021 hackathon hosted by the Google Developers Student Club @ University of Melbourne
We were finalists ranked within the top 5 teams for the hackathon!

This Flask app is hosted on Heroku
Hamster Wealth was built for the Chronicle 2021 hackathon hosted by the Google Developers Student Club @ University of Melbourne

We made Hamster Wealth in order to allow people to organise and manage their investments in an easy way. Most stock market portfolio tools online tend to be limited in certains ways such as requiring to use an associated broker, costing a fee to use or not supporting multiple markets. Hamster Wealth addresses these issues by being free to use, and by presenting users data from US markets in a simulated portfolio, allowing the user to experiment with risky investments without any payment to make it easier for people to get better at investing. Since the theme was Consumer Tech, we thought of software that we, as consumers, would use in our own lives and Hamster Wealth is what we came up with.

Hamster Wealth allows users to create virtual portfolios and simulate stock market conditions with actual stock market data which allows you to analyse positions and trades in multiple stocks.

We first came up with the concept of the website and then created prototypes of the backend routes and functions which would be required for the app's functionality. Alongside this, we created visual mockups of the website design in order to decide on the interface design as well the colour scheme and general aesthetic of the website. With this foundation of planning we were able to simply work on the back end and front end of the website.

We learnt how to use different technologies and improved upon our technical skills
We learnt how to use different APIs