NMsby/tradetracker-ai

AI-powered expense tracker for African small traders. Voice input, receipt scanning, and real-time profit insights. Built for the Vibe Coding Hackathon #1MillionDevs # 🚀 TradeTracker AI > **Empowering African Small Traders with AI-Powered Financial Intelligence** ## 🎤 Hackathon Presentation **📊 View Pitch Deck** **🎬 Live Demo:** tradetracker-ai.vercel.app ### 🏆 Presentation Highlights - **Problem:** Small traders lose 15–25% profits due to poor expense tracking - **Solution:** AI-powered voice and photo expense tracking - **Impact:** 200M+ potential users across Africa - **Tech:** React + Supabase + OpenAI + Google Vision **Challenge:** Retail & Ecommerce - Lightweight Storefront Builder **Event:** Vibe Coding Hackathon 2025 - PowerLearnProject Academy Africa **Theme:** Building Human-Centered, Joy-Driven Solutions Using AI and Low-Code Tools --- ## 🎯 Problem Statement Small traders across Africa lose money because they don't track their income, expenses, or understand their actual profit margins. Most operate without any financial visibility, making it impossible to grow their businesses effectively. Research shows: - 📊 **70% of small traders** don't track expenses systematically - 💰 **15–25% profit loss** due to poor financial visibility - 📱 **Complex barriers:** Existing apps are too complicated, expensive, or require high literacy - ⏰ **Time constraints:** Too busy serving customers to do manual bookkeeping **The Core Challenge:** *How do we make expense tracking as simple as having a conversation?* --- ## 💡 Solution **TradeTracker AI** is a voice-first, AI-powered financial tracker that makes expense monitoring effortless through three core capabilities: ### 🎤 **Speak Your Transactions** *"I sold 5 bags of rice for 2000 shillings today"* - **Natural Language Processing** - Understands conversational input - **Local Context Awareness** - Handles African currencies, business terms - **Hybrid AI Approach** - Pattern matching (free) + OpenAI (premium) - **Multi-language Support** - English, Swahili, and expanding ### 📸 **Snap Your Receipts** *Point, shoot, done - AI extracts everything* - **Google Vis …