IF this were ycombinator and someone pitched me this startup, I would pass, sorry. This market for social investing is saturated and I dont see anying special about the site. It also does not look like there is anyting there. There is nothign that jumps out at me that would compell me to register or stay. It's not a good idea, sorry.
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#52If you ignore things like $GME (which will eventually be regulated like the rest), traders keep their strategy a secret.
Interested in knowing how this will pan out
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who is saying anything went wrong at WSB?
Annecdotally, I've seen a few posts complaining about the quality of the posts in the sub as new users have flooded in. But I haven't been paying attention long enough to know how true it is.
Very true unfortunately.
Previously most of the people who were on WSB at least knew what they were talking about and all the dumb jokes were known to be jokes. Made a lot of fun stories, because the people who did exceptionally dumb stuff got sucked into the hype of people who knew what they were doing winning/losing big.
When $GME happened the sub got flooded with people who thought that buying $GME was a social movement and caused the quality of everything to go down a ton. It's gotten better over time and massive user growth has happened before, but not on this scale. Honestly the place is totally different from where it was even six months ago, which is unfortunate as the culture was really something.
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#54It's a neat idea. Less TA and more fundamentals than TradingView.
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#55I think you can develop this into something cool. However I think the current idea is a bit too similar to eToro and especially close to what Seeking Alpha is.
The UX is also very, very, overwhelming.
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#56IF this were ycombinator and someone pitched me this startup, I would pass, sorry. This market for social investing is saturated and I dont see anying special about the site. It also does not look like there is anyting there. There is nothign that jumps out at me that would compell me to register or stay. It's not a good idea, sorry.
>This market for social investing is saturated
And what are some examples?
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#57Please 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?
Text. You can scan it in an instant. It takes orders of magnitude longer to hover over each icon, wait for the tooltip, repeat for the more obscure ones.
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#58If you ignore things like $GME (which will eventually be regulated like the rest), traders keep their strategy a secret. Interested in knowing how this will pan out
Buy index fund, wait, profit. Not a secret and beats active traders every time.
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#59Looks nice
Probably a good idea add `cursor: pointer` to your .feed-card class for the desktop folks.
A lot of wasted/unused screen real estate on my 1080 desktop as well.
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#60My 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…
Cool idea. I will continue to check in to see your progress.
One note: the back arrow in the upper left is strange. Usually that’s where I find the menu. My browser already has plenty of ways to go back, so that element on your site seems confusing and unnecessary.