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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)

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Post by danielaxelsen »

atombender wrote: post #89
danielaxelsen wrote: post #15

Hi - 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'd love to use your site (which looks great!), but I'm not able to log in with Safari; the form fields don't show up: https://i.imgur.com/myxCZLU.jpg . I've tried disabling my adblocker. Also, when signing up, I got an alert box about "FS" being undefined. But I did receive the verification email. Feel free to reach out by email (address in profile).

We're looking into that. Thanks for being really helpful about it.

Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

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Post by danielaxelsen »

oneplusone wrote: post #93
danielaxelsen wrote: post #15

Hi - 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…

It needs a few things that I liked about GF: 1) If I click a different period in a chart, it should show me the different in price over that period as a %. I want to be able to see the chart for the last 6 months and be told what % the price changed. 2) It needs options chains. Some small tweaks would also be nice: 1) The news line length is basically unreadable. 2) Font size is too small. Really hard to read the sit…

Completely agree on the charting percentage, and the options chains.

Thanks for the feedback on the font and news line. For the news line, do you mean that you'd prefer more text to show up in the news section?

Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

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Post by [deleted] »

tomohawk wrote: post #20
rgbrenner wrote: post #5

Was anyone really using this feature? Even the author sounds like he wasn't actively using the feature. He entered some data 6 years ago, and went back today to find it was missing.... He didn't even notice until almost a year after it was removed. Keeping every feature around, even the unused ones that look like failures, is a bad idea.

Repeatedly destroying trust by dropping things and breaking things for people, is a bad idea.

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Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

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Post by iscrewyou »

HelloFellowDevs wrote: post #103

I remember using Google Finance in one of my business classes in High School. I haven't checked on it since, but I didn't know that Google would kill something that was definitely promising.

I still miss Google Reader. I just wish they would somehow let community take over for the project. I don’t know how it would work but I just don’t see another way. I’ve moved everything off Google other than email and calendar.

Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

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Post by lalos »

riku_iki wrote: post #98
lalos wrote: post #59

As long as Google reports 90% of the revenue from a single stream (Ads), anything else is a pet project that can be canceled or left to rot since there is no strong incentive to keep working on it. I try to back up whatever work I do on any Google service. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me -> Google graveyard for more info: https://www.lifewire.com/google-graveyard-products-1616198

Ads for google probably is monetization schema now days, and not single stream of revenue. Stream is likely very diversified: search, youtube, mobile search, maps, AdSense, AdMob, shopping. So, they have incentive to try to build new product and monetize them using Ads, it just doesn't always work, and they shutdown products/features.

Yeap, I was talking about the actual reporting of income and you are on the same page as me "stream is LIKELY very diversified...". We just don't have that info, therefore I don't know the services that are winners and the losers. Am I using a service on the loser side?

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Post by nanoanderson »

danso wrote: post #95

> When we combine this with Google’s destruction of millions of person-years of (part-time) work in Picasa, is the only reasonable conclusion that Google has re-hired Marissa Mayer? Huh?

Seriously, what a nasty comment. Trying to think of what possible context they could put around this comment that would justify it.

Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

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Post by robryan »

appleiigs wrote: post #96
cloakedarbiter wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What OP's "hypothetical portfolio" means is basically the tracking of a whole set of selected equities (so in your site's case: the performance of everything within a watchlist, including a graph visualizing it plus all the common features like comparing that portfolio-graph to that of the Nasdaq, Dollar Index, BTC ...). [2] > GF's UI was horrible, but they allowed to create endless amounts of those portfolios, whi…

I think Excel would be the best tool for that type of analysis, not an app.

An app would be a lot nicer to get a graph of performance offer time for that hypothetical decision. Excel would be okay if you just wanted to know today’s position of various decisions.

Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

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Post by cdcfa78156ae5 »

This is why Richard Stallman calls SaaS "Service as a Software Substitute" and recommends running your own programs on your own computers: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

If you are using any Unix derivative there are still Free Software applications from the 1980s (or 1970s if you run BSD) that you are running every day without any problems, whether you realize it or not.

Consider doing your financial modeling with a Free Software program like Gnumeric: http://gnumeric.org/

Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

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Post by ALittleLight »

danielaxelsen wrote: post #15

Hi - 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…

How do you make money from this? (Or plan to)

Looks really nice, by the way.

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