Mark's Tiny Project - Tiny Dividend Calculator
Description:
The goal of the website - Tiny Dividend Calculator, is to be able to create a dividend tracker that gives the user the option to populate their stock and then see a valuation of dividends over time with or with out drip investing included. I noticed when looking at other stock dividend calculators that you can only do generic amounts of money and not add in the individual stocks to track. So to solve that problem I built Tiny Dividend Calculator. I built the website using Vue.js, HTML and css. I host this website via Netlify. I use Github for my version control as well as to integrate into Netlify. After exploring two stock data apis polygon.io and iexcloud.io, I decided to not utilize either api within this tiny project. The main reason behind this is because sharing the data from the api to a third party would have been a violation of the two apis Terms of Service.
Cost to setup:
Total Cost: $0.00
Tool kit:
- Netlify - Web Developer Platform
- Github - Version Control and Code Storage
- ATOM - IDE and Text Editor
- Plausible Analytics - Privacy-friendly Analytics
- Vue.js - JavaScript Framework
- HTML 5
- CSS
Future Improvements:
The future improvements that I can invision for this tiny project are the following:
- Finding a free api that allows publishing data to third parties (i.e. stock tickers, stock prices, dividend, ex-dividend dates)
- Improving over all look of the user interface (This was my first attempt at creating a UI/UX from scratch)
- Allowing for autocomplete for fill in forms
- Form error checking
- Adding in annual contributions per stock
- Adding in growth percentage for stock as well as dividend
- Adding in drip for stock(s)