You are charging way too much and offering too little. $29/month to track 15 companies, $89 to track 50, and "Contact sales" for unlimited. The "AI Analysis" you have is too brief and doesn't tell me anything useful as an investor.
Thanks, it doesn't make too much of a difference for me since it's still hovering on top of those flashy colors.
Btw, I see that my original comment has been flagged (not saying that it was you kiez). Maybe because it was low effort? Understandable if that's the case. I figured "This is extremely uncomfortable to read." would make sense for anyone that saw the sharp pink and yellow backgrounds combined with grungy text. I'm pretty sure I have photosensitivity though, so maybe this is not a widespread issue.
Not only that, he was also better than Gates at math. From the acquired podcast episode on Microsoft:
> Ben: He's gregarious. Anyone who's ever met Steve or seen a video of Steve, you are well aware that this man has a presence. But the thing that people don't know about him is he is so unbelievably analytical. Steve is the guy that outscored Bill Gates on the Putnam exam.
I would actually be less worried. The support at paddle is much better than what I've seen from both stripe and LS. LS had decent support a year ago, but has really dropped off. Moving to stripe makes me excited about their product, but more worried about the support.
I looked at paddle initially, but was not too happy with their chat support. The content of the support was great but the response time was about 1 day, which made it difficult for a chat type conversation. In retrospect, I could've tried writing longer messages.
So I was looking for an alternative and found LemonSqueezy. One of the founders actually helped me onboard, which I was very grateful for. At the beginning the support was great, but it has degraded a lot since. If you go to their slack, you would notice many people complaining about issues being unattended to for weeks and months. I've had first hand experience with this too. I suggest you go to their slack and check out the state for yourself.
In contrast, paddle's response time was better and higher quality too. I'm strongly considering switching to paddle at this point.
I had been happy with Apple for many years but encountered some really terrible experiences lately. There was a systematic problem on Apple’s side (related to the recent increase in iCloud subscription fees) and they cancelled my extra iCloud storage. To be fair they did give me a refund for the extra storage prior but I thought it was related to the pricing changes and didn’t think much of it. Other than that there were no warnings until the extra storage expired and they sent me an email saying the storage is full. I resubscribed immediately but iCloud mail could not send or receive anything for several hours afterwards, except for receiving emails from Apple.
I also have had several instances where iCloud Drive would take forever to sync. The most recent time got so bad (100% cpu usage that persists after killing the process when I added 5KB worth of files) that I stopped using it completely. Tried Microsoft OneDrive instead and it synced at good speeds and gave me no problems.
This looks so good! I missed your original post and wanted to add some comments here.
Saw that your screener filtering is instant. Do you have everything loaded to the client side? If you want some feedback, I think the filter slider for the active rule could use a bit of a redesign. The magenta color is too vibrant for me and the actual bar itself is barely visible (could use more contrast against page background).
For data providers, have you looked at EODHD? They are a bit more expensive compared to FMP but the data is a lot higher quality from what I've seen and they have 24/7 live chat support. I don't know if it would fit your budget but could be worth to ask their support. Disclaimer: I build something similar in this space and I'm currently trying to migrate from FMP to EODHD.
Always fun to see others build tools like this. Would love to chat more on discord if you are up for it. Just followed you on twitter so we could go from there. glhf
The original description sounds like it’s about subscribing to buy/sell signals. Your response here still sounds like a more carefully worded version of that.
Reacting to real time trades easily leads to emotional decisions and that’s one of the biggest things traders struggle with. It just goes against everything I appreciate about trading so no I’m not interested.
Legitimate top traders would not need people to follow their trades. In fact, the best ones would advise you against it.
Trading is a redistribution of wealth from the bad traders to the good ones. You might make this idea work but it sounds shady. I don’t see how this has any value to legitimate traders. Let me know if I misunderstood though.
Along these lines, is there a discord server for HN? Sometimes the free form conversations could be a nice change of pace to the more serious and topic based ones.
This is really cool! I especially like your Tour, very fun way to get introduced. Here is a couple points of feedback:
- For the tour, I notice that pressing Esc exits it. Would be nice if there is a close button somewhere as well, or at least some way to let the user know that they can press Esc. Currently if someone is using the mouse, they only can exit using the left (Previous) button of the first slide or the right (Start Exploring) button of the last slide.
- Clicking into some nodes and then Reset View seems to spin the view many more times than necessary. Not sure if that's a bug or by design but I would prefer if it uses the least amount of camera movement necessary.
Overall this was really cool to see. I have been wanting to do something similar but based on price action correlation instead of fundamentals. Actually I have just launched a related feature this week called Similar Charts.
If you are interested you can see that here: https://base.report/ticker/ACLS/similar-charts. Please note that the free version only shows you tickers that start with the letter A. The paid version shows you 50 matches.
First of all, those were during the World War years so the context matters a lot.
Overall, if you had just said to only put your money in lower risk stuff vs index funds that would make sense to me too depending on how risk averse you are. But to put 20% in something like bitcoin just seems like a weird mix of safety and gambling. I would like to see some strong numbers backing this up in the past 50 years or so where this would be more profitable AND less risky compared to the index funds.
Also after these dips, did the market recover and how long did it take? Imo index funds are where you put your money away for decades. Over those years, what is the average gains per year?
There is nothing wrong with accounting for extreme events and that’s why all investment could be risky. But I am challenging your narrative.
It’s extremely difficult, especially for an extended time, but it is possible. A lot of “successful” traders start selling educational material after they gain some success and fame.
Besides the success in trading, what sets him apart is that everything he shares (twitch, blog, tweets etc) are all for free. He is also from Sweden where income tax is public information so you can verify for yourself.
In general, I do think most people should just put their money in an index fund, as ETFs can still be much riskier. But to answer your question literally, yes you are wrong.