I had this idea last night, combining (once again) my interest in finance and learning to code. I didn’t have the patience to make a full version myself so let Claude do the heavy lifting.
The principle is cookie clicker for dividends. I imagine this has been done before. But I want to gamify dividends so that kids or people that are new to investing can understand their potential.
Above is a quick mockup.
Initially, I was going to use an API for the prices, but I thought let’s pick 25 dividend kings and just manually tap them in for now.
Why bother using an API that could break when I can hard-code the numbers -the principle is exactly the same!
The idea is you get $1k and then you start building your snowball of money, but you can change it so 1 second = 1 day to see how much you’d make over the course of a year.
However, if I want it to have a bit more “viral” potential, I will need a login so people can save their score.
I made a basic version fine, and then jumped over to cursor thinking I would make it even better. In the end I made it not even be able to calculate the right amount of dividends even with the price. This is something even I could do in Excel or Python but AI really struggled to get it right.
Got it to work but realized it needs to work well on mobile if (mobile first in fact) if I want it do any more. So refactoring now.
I’m pretty sure I broke it trying to make it work on Mobile but will leave it up here: Dividend.Beauty
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