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

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Please stop with the icon menu bars. It is 2021, and people are still doing this. Why. Just stop. Arrrgh. Anyway, I absolutely love this idea! I signed up and am poking around now. I think I already like this more than Benzinga, Stocktwits, SeekingAlpha, you-name-it.

aren't icon menu bars a somewhat recent trend (last decade), I remember text menu bars were more popular back in the day and then boostrap came along.

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

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post #29

This new wave of social investment platforms is really exciting. Stocktwits is just noise. I'm still shocked Twitter hasn't capitalized on cashtags by at least showing market data. I've recently been a big fan of Commonstock: https://commonstock.com/ it actually allows you to link your broker through Plaid and shows a leaderboard based on actual % gain on positions. That said, I like you bringing more competition to…

Twitter is crawling with scammers and pump-n-dumpers. It's impossible to use it for investment talk. You spend all your time blocking people, and ticker hashtags are abused by people selling their discord channel or other crap. Also, if you express negative emotion toward a stock, its investors go out of their way to dox you or harass you. I had to set my account to "protected" because of this.

Twitter missed out on a huge opportunity. They should have listened to investors who user their platform.

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

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post #30

Please stop with the icon menu bars. It is 2021, and people are still doing this. Why. Just stop. Arrrgh. Anyway, I absolutely love this idea! I signed up and am poking around now. I think I already like this more than Benzinga, Stocktwits, SeekingAlpha, you-name-it.

As phrased your suggestion to stop using icon menu bars is unhelpful. What should we be using instead and why?

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

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post #30

Please stop with the icon menu bars. It is 2021, and people are still doing this. Why. Just stop. Arrrgh. Anyway, I absolutely love this idea! I signed up and am poking around now. I think I already like this more than Benzinga, Stocktwits, SeekingAlpha, you-name-it.

I think icon menu bars are great

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

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post #33
post #30

Please stop with the icon menu bars. It is 2021, and people are still doing this. Why. Just stop. Arrrgh. Anyway, I absolutely love this idea! I signed up and am poking around now. I think I already like this more than Benzinga, Stocktwits, SeekingAlpha, you-name-it.

As phrased your suggestion to stop using icon menu bars is unhelpful. What should we be using instead and why?

I prefer the icon menu bars with text underneath the icons. iOS Apps use this a lot: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

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

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post #30

Please stop with the icon menu bars. It is 2021, and people are still doing this. Why. Just stop. Arrrgh. Anyway, I absolutely love this idea! I signed up and am poking around now. I think I already like this more than Benzinga, Stocktwits, SeekingAlpha, you-name-it.

Hello joadha, your first paragraph comes across as ranty and even arrogant (i.e. implying you are the authority on UX choices). You offer no valid support for your argument.

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

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What is the plan to police/moderate the content to prevent scams? I think something like this works great when you know the people or at least believe that they have positive intent, but is hard to do right at scale (as WSB has experienced over the last few months).

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

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I'm curious about the idea of a social investment platform, if someone gained a significant following on a platform like this could they end up being charged with market manipulation? I can imagine someone with a significant following on a platform like this could potentially be able to have some small sway on parts of the market.

on eToro, the top investors have hundreds of thousands to low millions under management. I think the top investor has 5m or 10m under management which is the maximum allowed, I assume by some regulation. meanwhile, billionaires drop billion dollar trades left and right.

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

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As phrased your suggestion to stop using icon menu bars is unhelpful. What should we be using instead and why?

I prefer the icon menu bars with text underneath the icons. iOS Apps use this a lot: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

FWIW the icons do have text labels and even descriptions when you hover over them.

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

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post #37

What is the plan to police/moderate the content to prevent scams? I think something like this works great when you know the people or at least believe that they have positive intent, but is hard to do right at scale (as WSB has experienced over the last few months).

Who is saying anything went wrong at WSB?
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