Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

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Post by SilurianWenlock » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 9:40 PM UTC

who did your UI design and how did they do it? looks sexy

Re: Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

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Post by werber » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

This is the first thing I've seen on here in a while that looks original. I don't fully get it, but it makes me want to learn more.

Re: Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

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Post by aqme28 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

Your email verification is broken. It sends you a broken URL.

Re: Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

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Post by voisin » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 9:48 PM UTC

stuartjm5 wrote: post #2

My co-founder and I came up with the idea for Utradea about a year ago when we realized that we loved discussing our investment/stock ideas and process. This expanded within our friend group, at least to people who were interested in the stock market. We thought it would be great to have a platform where we could have social interactions and combine it with core investment information/data. We didn’t like having to u…

How does it compare to SumZero?

Re: Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

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Post by faldore » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 9:51 PM UTC

ok but you are missing the killer app.

1) I wanna share my trades 2) I wanna do it automatically across multiple brokerages.

think Tastyworks + Plaid + Facebook. for tracking all my trades across all my brokerages. and social-media'izing it. (ie I and other people can make comments on my trades) I can follow traders I like and get notified when they make a trade. etc etc.

Re: Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

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Post by aqme28 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 9:52 PM UTC

Some of the marketing implies that I could be "rewarded" by picking stocks well. What are the rewards? How does that work?

Re: Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

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Post by uptown » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 9:57 PM UTC

aqme28 wrote: post #16

Some of the marketing implies that I could be "rewarded" by picking stocks well. What are the rewards? How does that work?

Oh, well, knowledge is my reward, sir.

Re: Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

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Post by stonlyb » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 10:03 PM UTC

Are you thinking of eventually merging social + trade execution like https://public.com/ ?

Re: Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

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Post by aqme28 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 10:04 PM UTC

101008 wrote: post #3

What's the difference with eToro?

I just spent five minutes looking at eToro's landing page and I cannot figure out what that site does.

Re: Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

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Post by MattGaiser » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 10:12 PM UTC

How does this differ from AlphaSwap or the recently defunct Vetr?