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Re: Launch HN: Alinea (YC W21) – Invest in stocks you believe in

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Post by anamlakhani_ »

ottodebals wrote: post #8

There's definitely some barriers to be removed in the retail investing world, looking forward if Alinea can help. Could you elaborate on 'we explain [...] how they treat their stakeholders' as I guess this is very opinionated and depending on stakeholder type? Which scope of companies are you currently covering?

We derive data from ISS to show the transparency and impact policies companies have in place. We break this down into three categories: impact on our 1) environment 2) workplace and 3) society. Currently, we are launching with 50 popular stocks.

Re: Launch HN: Alinea (YC W21) – Invest in stocks you believe in

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Post by anamlakhani_ »

Lobosque wrote: post #15
anamlakhani_ wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We'll be launching on the app store on Monday! You can reserve a spot on the waitlist for now (:

What about Android?

Only iOS right now! Android will be coming up in the near future (:

Re: Launch HN: Alinea (YC W21) – Invest in stocks you believe in

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Post by flaque »

hpvic03 wrote: post #16

Shouldn't "Show HN" rules also apply to "Launch HN"? "Off topic: ... sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html This looks like an awesome product, but kind of annoying to see a "Launch" but it's just a waitlist. Why not wait until Monday?

I’d cut them some slack, they seem like they’re just following the YC advice. Move fast, launch early. No reason to be a stickler about the rules.

Besides, tons of apps and services launch via testflight, gated betas/waitlist-then-interview. Superhuman, dispo, and clubhouse all did that strategy.

Re: Launch HN: Alinea (YC W21) – Invest in stocks you believe in

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Post by loceng »

anamlakhani_ wrote: post #9
ForrestN wrote: post #4

Does this have any relation to the world-famous restaurant, sometimes in the past ranked as the #1 restaurant in the world, of the same name?

Yes, Alinea means a new way of doing something,for us, it's a new way of investing!

I don't understand the downvotes you're getting or the negativity in the comments. I've never heard of Alinea - the restaurant before - and it's really strange that people are being anal about someone else using the name for a completely different industry - it won't be confusing to anyone.

Re: Launch HN: Alinea (YC W21) – Invest in stocks you believe in

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Post by yanslookup »

psychometry wrote: post #17
anamlakhani_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, Alinea means a new way of doing something,for us, it's a new way of investing!

Why on earth would you name a fintech company after a world-famous restaurant? Bonkers...

They are in... completely different industries?

Re: Launch HN: Alinea (YC W21) – Invest in stocks you believe in

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Post by anamlakhani_ »

m00dy wrote: post #14
thelastinuit wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spot on! I'm looking forward for the day money/value will based on not only on what you provide/create but also on how much that impacts all the connected things to make that happen.

it is obvious that considering environmental effect is the next parameter in company evaluation. We can even call it capitalism 2.o maybe. We just don't have the model yet.

Yes, our community definitely wants to know how their investments impact the environment

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Post by nickkokonas »

ForrestN wrote: post #4

Does this have any relation to the world-famous restaurant, sometimes in the past ranked as the #1 restaurant in the world, of the same name?

Hi -- I'm the co-owner of Alinea... the restaurant and group.

While they are in different industries, I owned a derivatives trading group for years, run a tech startup (Tock), and am getting a bunch of emails from folks thinking I started this or am affiliated in some way.

So... while I dislike conflict, I really don't like be associated with something I have no control over. There will be an incoming email shortly.

Re: Launch HN: Alinea (YC W21) – Invest in stocks you believe in

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Post by anamlakhani_ »

nerdponx wrote: post #20

I assume you are leaning heavily on some kind of natural language processing to automatically extract this information from SEC filings and earnings reports. That's a great idea. I just hope that you're being very very careful about the generalizability of your models & their performance over time. Obviously 99% of the work in buidling such a system is just getting access to all the data and setting up the ETL pipeli…

Currently, we are seeing that retail investors aren't doing any research at all, especially young people are relying on social media and memes to make investment choices which can be dangerous. EBITDA is important and it's a hard concept to understand for those who aren't familiar with finance - that's why we offer digestible insights to make it accessible. Analyst reports are very long to sift through and most people don't want to spend the time. That's why we opted for swipable cards of information so users don't feel the hassle of "doing research."The other platforms aren't mobile first and do not offer this ease of use and accessibility to non-financially savvy individuals.
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