👋 Can this be DuoLingo for financial education?
I'm building a free, game-based personal finance education app named Finny (askfinny.com)--you can think of it as DuoLingo for personal finance. I feel like personal finance education is so neglected, and there are a lot of spammers and scammers in the space... so I felt I needed to build a product that will teach people the things they need to know to manage their money.
I've struggled personally with personal finances. I came to the US with $1,500K in my pocket and had to manage my money from Day 1 without family support. When I saved some money, I bought stocks Jim Kramer recommended on CNBC at the peak of the market and then I sold them at the bottom!
I'm particularly interested in how we can make the app more engaging--what should we build, change, or modify to make users come back more often?
Feel free to chime in with your thoughts, ideas, and feedback!
I love it! and I found a bug: I have 80 coins from completing modules, but when I go under rewards, I have 0 coins there (in the top right corner)
It should be fixed now:) Let me know any other feedback you may have...
Thank you so much! Yeah, not sure how this happened... I'll fix this soon!
Gamification is attractive, but in the end the reason people will use your solution is because of what they learn (and how applying the information produces actual results). Start with the content and instructional design first, then you can supplement with gaming elements similar to duolingo.
Thanks for your feedback. Those are the principles I used to make Finny. Would you mind giving me more specifics if you had a chance to check the app? If you didn't, no worries.
What a cool idea. A kid's version for middle-schoolers and high-schoolers would be a great resource for parents and teachers. The flow is great, I did the 1st module on investing and the content is thought provoking and clearly presented. Well done.
Spotted a spelling mistake... "summaries" should be "summarises" or "summarizes" here -> Once you’ve completed all the bubbles within a level, you will get a message-in-a-bottle that summaries all the important points
Thank you so much! We corrected the typos you mentioned. Super thankful for your feedback! As far as our path going forward, for now we're focused on personal finance education for young adults (21-45). This is when most people start learning personal finance things they need to do well financially. A kid's version will come probably sometime later.