Show HN: An open source cross-platform minimalistic cryptocurrency tracker

daveguy wrote: post #3

oscarteg wrote: post #2

Looks great. Just a small question. Where do you get the prices from?

Looking at the source, it comes from http://coincap.io

Yep. In older versions, I was using https://coinmarketcap.com/api/ but it lacks proper documentation and real-time updates. So switched to https://coincap.io

Re: Show HN: An open source cross-platform minimalistic cryptocurrency tracker

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Post by Maran » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 7:43 PM UTC

Looks very cool! How hard would it be to add a feature to keep track of your holdings per coin?

Re: Show HN: An open source cross-platform minimalistic cryptocurrency tracker

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Post by harshjv » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

Maran wrote: post #5

Looks very cool! How hard would it be to add a feature to keep track of your holdings per coin?

I was about to add this feature but then focused on API migration for real-time updates. This feature is next on the list :)

Re: Show HN: An open source cross-platform minimalistic cryptocurrency tracker

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Post by xkarga00 » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 8:12 PM UTC

Naive question: Why should I use this over CoinCap? I'm running it on Android and it has been a pretty sweet app to keep track of cc

Re: Show HN: An open source cross-platform minimalistic cryptocurrency tracker

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Post by St_Alfonzo » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 8:17 PM UTC

Good timing, BTC dropped from 1080€ to ~900€ today :-)

I don't know if it's just a problem with my windows 10 installation but the currency (USD, EUR etc.) dropdown is not clickable. With tab- and arrow-keys I can switch to EUR.

Re: Show HN: An open source cross-platform minimalistic cryptocurrency tracker

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Post by bhalperin » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 8:29 PM UTC

This is cool, but I wish coincap.io was more transparent about their data sourcing. Which exchange(s) is/are they sourcing from? This data can't be coming from ShapeShift (the owners of coincap.io), since prices on coincap.io are in USD while you cannot trade in fiat whatsoever on Shapeshift.

Re: Show HN: An open source cross-platform minimalistic cryptocurrency tracker

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Post by harshjv » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 8:39 PM UTC

xkarga00 wrote: post #7

Naive question: Why should I use this over CoinCap? I'm running it on Android and it has been a pretty sweet app to keep track of cc

I thought of building this to keep an eye on prices without any efforts from the menu bar. So with no clicks, I can see current BTC price and I can filter out cryptocurrency of my interest with just 1 click. Also, it runs in background so that keeps 1 less tab open in my browser.

Plus, I am extending this app to accommodate tracking of holdings, so that would be another reason to use it on desktop.