Wow this looks great! Congratulations on launch.
Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
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Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#22Do you have to use one of their example questions for a free demonstration? I asked one of the questions and it asked me to log in.
What did you ask? There are a few premium features right now (holdings data, interactive financials). If you want to make an account I'll give you a free upgrade :)
I did the same thing as my first query and I assumed you needed login for everything and gave up. I suspect you will bounce traffic if it's not obvious what's premium.
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#23Congrats! Looks good!
Small issue: you're calling Google fonts over HTTP, but your site uses HTTPS, so Chrome is blocking the request. This leads to your fonts rendering in the default (Times New Roman here).
[blocked] The page at 'https://www.pennywhale.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,700': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#24Congrats! Looks good! Small issue: you're calling Google fonts over HTTP, but your site uses HTTPS, so Chrome is blocking the request. This leads to your fonts rendering in the default (Times New Roman here). [blocked] The page at ' https://www.pennywhale.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from ' http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,700' : this content should also be loaded over HT…
Thanks for the catch!
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#25Congratulations on launching! Cool idea and a good start. I think since you're targeting the non-professional market here, you need to focus on user experience a bit. Some feedback: - Found it a bit slow, but guess that's partially the HN effect. - As per above, I'd make the queries ajax rather than refreshing the whole page every search, should improve the UX a fair bit. - I expected autopredict when I started to ty…
+1 I like these suggestions given that I was expecting the exact things :)
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#26How do you guys plan to compete with Google Spreadsheets?
I can already do this stuff in it (free) and just use the built in GoogleFinance calls (and their limit is 1000 per sheet).
Plus I have all the other advantages of a spreadsheet program.
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#27Congrats! Looks good! Small issue: you're calling Google fonts over HTTP, but your site uses HTTPS, so Chrome is blocking the request. This leads to your fonts rendering in the default (Times New Roman here). [blocked] The page at ' https://www.pennywhale.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from ' http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,700' : this content should also be loaded over HT…
Does indeed look good.
Have to say, love the logo. Think it would drop into a favicon nicely too..
Congrats
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#28How do you guys plan to compete with Google Spreadsheets? I can already do this stuff in it (free) and just use the built in GoogleFinance calls (and their limit is 1000 per sheet). Plus I have all the other advantages of a spreadsheet program.
I wasn't aware you could do this and I'm sure many causal investors aren't. Plus this is not as user friendly: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093281?hl=en
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#29How do you guys plan to compete with Google Spreadsheets? I can already do this stuff in it (free) and just use the built in GoogleFinance calls (and their limit is 1000 per sheet). Plus I have all the other advantages of a spreadsheet program.
I wasn't aware you could do this and I'm sure many causal investors aren't. Plus this is not as user friendly: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093281?hl=en
Possibly. But I suspect many casual investors (on HN anyway) might be familiar with Excel. In which case
=GoogleFinance("GOOG", "price")
Examples:
Function list - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ault2FD3uBwydEV...
Watch list - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ault2FD3uBwydG5...
Watchlist + holdings - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ault2FD3uBwydDl...
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wasn't aware you could do this and I'm sure many causal investors aren't. Plus this is not as user friendly: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093281?hl=en
Possibly. But I suspect many casual investors (on HN anyway) might be familiar with Excel. In which case =GoogleFinance("GOOG", "price") may not be all that complicated. Plus it helps that it's free. Examples: Function list - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ault2FD3uBwydEV... Watch list - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ault2FD3uBwydG5... Watchlist + holdings - https://docs.google.com/spread…
This is very interesting - thanks for pointing it out. I think one way we're working on being competitive is the breadth and depth of our research. Rather than just fundamental data points, we're working on integrating more complicated queries such as 'What's the weighted average cost of capital for $AAPL'. We view it as a great opportunity for automation of financial research.