A personalized financial planning platform designed specifically for Texas teachers, helping educators make smarter financial decisions and secure their future.
Our journey began with a simple memory of school pizza parties, which led to a profound realization: teachers often spend their own money to create special moments for their students. This understanding deepened when we learned about educators taking on side jobs, like one of our high school teachers who delivered DoorDash during school hours, just to make ends meet.
This reality check inspired us to create FinTeach—a tool that addresses the unique financial challenges teachers face while honoring their dedication to education.
FinTeach is a comprehensive financial planning platform that combines AI-powered insights with user-friendly tools to help Texas teachers:
- Create personalized budgets
- Plan for retirement
- Track expenses
- Access teacher-specific financial advice
- Manage educational spending
- Set and monitor financial goals
- React.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Node.js
- Express.js
- Flask
- OpenAI for personalized financial insights
- Plaid for secure bank account connections
- GitHub for version control
- CI/CD pipeline for deployment
- Smart Budgeting: AI-powered budget recommendations based on teacher-specific expenses
- Retirement Planning: Tools tailored to Texas Teacher Retirement System
- Expense Tracking: Easy-to-use interface for monitoring spending
- Financial Insights: Personalized advice using AI technology
- Secure Banking: Safe connection to financial accounts through Plaid
- User-Friendly Design: Intuitive interface designed for busy educators
- AI Integration: Ensuring our AI-powered advice was relevant and accurate for teachers
- Time Management: Prioritizing essential features within hackathon constraints
- User Experience: Creating an intuitive interface that teachers would find helpful
- Deep insights into teachers' financial challenges
- Practical experience with AI integration
- Importance of user-centered design
- Value of effective team collaboration
- Expand to more states beyond Texas
- Add investment tracking features
- Implement community features for teacher collaboration
- Develop mobile application
- Include professional development expense tracking
- Ibrahim Khan
- Elyas Belkhir
- Adam Moffat
- Ridwan Amin
- Texas Teachers who provided valuable feedback
- HackUNT for the opportunity
- Our mentors and advisors
Made with ❤️ for educators