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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).

yeah, that's a good point and something we've had on our minds since day 1. Our overall principle would be to let the community self-moderate to an extent. I believe most of the content that is spam or pump/dump would be flagged and filtered out. Some of our users have posted with their actual names and other have random usernames. I would be interested in seeing if the community reacts differently to an identifiable user vs an anonymous user.

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

#82
post #59

Looks 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.

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah we are trying to balance relevant information vs information overload I've found that on a lot of finance related sites there is too much info on one page.

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

#84

How does this compare to Iris? I've seen that pushed more heavily within the finance/wannabe finance community. Otherwise, great product! Love the design! Should consider partnering with the bigger instagram accounts - litquidity, trustfundterry, etc to push it further and get some more adoption.

I'd say the biggest difference is the content. We are aiming to provide people with quality investment content (more detailed/informative write ups) whereas Iris seems to be more similar to StockTwits or twitter. Agreed, in the process of chatting to a few finance "influencers"

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

#85

Stocktwits/eToro are both quite popular.

If a signal to noise ratio could be negative Stocktwits would be negative. The content on there is absolute bottom of the barrel garbage from Robinhood traders. This platform has a lot of cool new ideas and I hope it works

Agree with the point about stocktwits - not the best place for investment quality investment content or discussions. Let me know if you have any suggestions on things you'd like to see.

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

#86

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

Good question, AlphaSwap is operates on a reward based system for investment ideas/content that factors in both community consensus voting and performance of the idea. We are more focused on the social engagement aspect of bringing investors together.

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

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post #3

What's the difference with eToro?

The biggest difference is that eToro is copy trading based and Utradea is investment idea based. We let users make their onw investing decision, you don't have to copy another persons trades as you would with eToro.

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

#89

What really needs to exist as ideas don't matter and execution does. Let me sign in, hook my brokerage, then just track me versus the rest. If you like what I am doing, let you follow me for a percentage of profits I want, and the system auto executes the trades I am making in your for you.

That is definitely one way to approach it. eToro (copy trading) already exists and commonstock is similar - you can see someone portfolio and % holdings but not their $ amount. We are focused on investment ideas, social engagement, and building a community.
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