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Yea fair. Big challenge I have is direct promotion on reddit is a challenge, even casual/sneaky promotion is often immediately shot down, especially in our niche (personal finance/…

What has been successful for you?

Helpful - thanks!

Interesting! Thanks for this. I'm worried that my space (personal finance) may be especially difficult since people are curious but extremely skeptical - there's a huge trust barri…

We've been experimenting with Reddit ads for a few weeks now, and the top-end metrics are really strong: CTR: 4.2% CPC: $0.09 eCPM: $3.61 But conversion on our landing page to test…

Fair, especially because in most of the scenarios where I've seen people go through the app it's because I've brought them on there myself in some capacity vs them just finding it …

Yea that makes sense. Just frustrating/confusing as whenever prospective/current users mention the use of ChatGPT, they almost always cage their answers by saying something like "I…

I'm building a holistic financial guidance platform and getting mixed signals about how people actually want to interact with AI. We decided not to use AI to build the custom inves…

I'm building a holistic financial guidance platform and getting mixed signals about how people actually want to interact with AI. We decided not to use AI to build the custom inves…

That's a great question, as complex goals are often conflicting. Right now, each goal uses a qualitative scale to establish an initial risk budget. In the future, we will ask users…

Great question, and we're still working on improving the process there. At the core what we do is break down all tasks into small achievable steps - with a reward system encouragin…

Totally fair point. We think that beginner investors already have a ton of resources at their disposal. There are a lot of platforms aimed at making it as easy as possible to start…

Hey HN, We’re challenging retail wealth management. Most individual portfolio optimization is fundamentally flawed because it’s static and ignores your specific goals. I spent a de…

Good question! We think the beginner side of the market is very well catered to. Robo advisors like Wealthfront and Betterment make it dead-easy to start with the basic objective o…

The story of Sarah is exactly why we're building this. She came to us with a overwhelmed trying to figure out how to plan for her future. Now she's locked in with a clear plan. So …

I'm building a consumer fintech platform - a space with a high trust barrier. We've been doing a ton of content to build trust and presence through short form video (TikTok/Insta),…