Quick shout-out to the commenter who mentioned Boggleheads.org. If you're into finances, it's a great resource.
Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
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Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#22It is mind boggling to me that both Google and Yahoo have thrown away their finance sites. It's utter garbage. And on the phone, Google Finance is even worse. They don't even use the same site or the same behavior, even though I'm pointing to the same URL. It's insane. Why would they completely disregard finance? Are they really not able to make a profitable site using ads?
What's funny to me is that so many people complain about large tech companies eating up every product category and preventing competition. But when they later kill these products, people complain all the same. Which is it? Seems like an opportunity for someone else, if it was really being relied on that much. I suspect it wasn't. The author of the article said he hadn't checked in six years. Six years! And he's compl…
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Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#23Hi - I'm the creator of https://bravos.co , a replacement for Google Finance. (I didn't have anything to do with this article being posted.) I actually left my job two months ago to work on this full-time... Google Finance used to be a "home page tab" for me and it was just killing me that I couldn't find a good alternative. Bravos.co features a clean interface for tracking public companies, cryptocurrencies, and eve…
This looks wonderful, just signed up! Looking forward to APIs
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#24This title seems clickbaity to me. Didn't the author lose about 5 minutes of work they did 12 years ago, and not the effort resulting from continual work over 12 years?
You're correct. Author added some stocks into their hypothetical portfolio and went back to check to see how it was doing. I wonder if Google sent emails to uses notifying them that the service was going to be discontinued.
I had a portfolio there, just to see what the feature was about.
There was a notification on the site a while back (months ago, can't remember exactly when), but I don't think they sent an email announcement.
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#25Hi - I'm the creator of https://bravos.co , a replacement for Google Finance. (I didn't have anything to do with this article being posted.) I actually left my job two months ago to work on this full-time... Google Finance used to be a "home page tab" for me and it was just killing me that I couldn't find a good alternative. Bravos.co features a clean interface for tracking public companies, cryptocurrencies, and eve…
This looks wonderful, just signed up! Looking forward to APIs
Yeah - they're going to be really cool, fast, and useful.
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#26It is mind boggling to me that both Google and Yahoo have thrown away their finance sites. It's utter garbage. And on the phone, Google Finance is even worse. They don't even use the same site or the same behavior, even though I'm pointing to the same URL. It's insane. Why would they completely disregard finance? Are they really not able to make a profitable site using ads?
What's funny to me is that so many people complain about large tech companies eating up every product category and preventing competition. But when they later kill these products, people complain all the same. Which is it? Seems like an opportunity for someone else, if it was really being relied on that much. I suspect it wasn't. The author of the article said he hadn't checked in six years. Six years! And he's compl…
What's funny to me is that so many people complain about large tech companies eating up every product category and preventing competition. But when they later kill these products, people complain all the same. Which is it?
Both. They expanded into an area and killed the competition then killed their product and left a void. See Google Reader for the life cycle.
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#27Quick shout-out to the commenter who mentioned Boggleheads.org. If you're into finances, it's a great resource.
that's bogleheads.org I take it?
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#28Hi - I'm the creator of https://bravos.co , a replacement for Google Finance. (I didn't have anything to do with this article being posted.) I actually left my job two months ago to work on this full-time... Google Finance used to be a "home page tab" for me and it was just killing me that I couldn't find a good alternative. Bravos.co features a clean interface for tracking public companies, cryptocurrencies, and eve…
I spent 10 minutes surfing around, and overall, I really like the layout, sparklines, and navigation.
It looks like you're using Highcharts for the main graphs, and if they support transitions out-of-the-box, that'd be nice to have that turned on. For example, when zooming out from 1M to 1Y, it's a little tough to see the recent 1 month changes in the context of 1 year. The axis transitions just makes it a bit more distracting, without the line chart transitions between date ranges.
Also, making the selected range saved to the URL to make the links shareable would be a good feature to add too.
I see that it's built in React, but I'm curious why clicking on an individual stock appears to "leave" the app, not giving it quite as smooth of a single page app experience? Not a huge deal, just curious.
Otherwise, this looks really great!
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#29Hi - I'm the creator of https://bravos.co , a replacement for Google Finance. (I didn't have anything to do with this article being posted.) I actually left my job two months ago to work on this full-time... Google Finance used to be a "home page tab" for me and it was just killing me that I couldn't find a good alternative. Bravos.co features a clean interface for tracking public companies, cryptocurrencies, and eve…
Hey, cool!
A while ago I was looking for an API that would give me the calendar date that quarterly earnings were reported historically, ideally for all public companies (but a large subset like the S&P500 would do). Do you know if anyone tracks this data, and if so where I might find it?
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#30Hi - I'm the creator of https://bravos.co , a replacement for Google Finance. (I didn't have anything to do with this article being posted.) I actually left my job two months ago to work on this full-time... Google Finance used to be a "home page tab" for me and it was just killing me that I couldn't find a good alternative. Bravos.co features a clean interface for tracking public companies, cryptocurrencies, and eve…
I signed up, very cool stuff! Is there any feasible way to build total return functionality in? This was always a major gripe of mine with Google Finance, and why M* is preferred for non-trading, investing purposes. I imagine you would need reliable dividend (ex-div date, price, amount, etc) information, and I'm not sure what your data sources are.