I used to frequent a few of the meetups. People in this city are very friendly. I've gone to a few R users group meetings, some mobile developer meetings, and some informal bar get togethers and I can't remember a time where I didn't learn something new or pick something up from very friendly people.
Just try lots of things. Some groups last and some don't, but it's generally worthwhile to give things a shot.
It's an app for the iPad that lets you watch tons of assets at the same time in the stock market. It also has voice alerts for economic calendar events.
HN really isn't the target audience for this product, but I'm looking to find people who'd give feedback and help me evolve the feature set. I'm trying to make the app something where news, signals, and market events convert into easy-to-spot effects on a tile grid. The app is cool because the app lets you visualize relationships between assets and it lets you construct those groups yourself. Oh, and the tiles in the app drift around in response to the market during the day, so you can see relationships evolve.
The challenge with making this app though is that everyone has a different broker for realtime data sources and different inputs, so I'm trying to work with different types of traders to help me craft something that is more generally usable by everyone and not just me.
Hi HN, I'm a day trader who wrote this app during the times when the market is closed. I'm trying to build an app over time that becomes an extension of the apps that I run on the desktop, and this is what I have so far. In the future, I'd like to get some direct broker data connectivity and deliver signals to the tiles in the app, but I wanted to get a feel for how others interacted with the user interface.
Just try lots of things. Some groups last and some don't, but it's generally worthwhile to give things a shot.