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Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker

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Post by iamd3vil » Thu, May 07, 2020, 10:27 AM UTC

Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker
zerodha.tech

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Post by itsspring » Thu, May 07, 2020, 3:22 PM UTC

Bootstrapped, 10 years old and their tech looks great (from a customer UX perspective). Cool that they’re launching a tech blog. I’ve learned a lot from business engineering blogs over the past decade

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Post by p2hari » Thu, May 07, 2020, 3:45 PM UTC

I have been closely following the progress of Zerodha in such a complex market and also an early customer (not now) for them from the time of its launch. With some of the best competitions around like Sharekhan, 5paisa, and Karvy it was nice to see how they started with zero brokerage concepts like Robin. I did not know it is now the largest stockbroker in India. And really nice to see the tech blog starting. I thought it would be a larger team and using a different tech stack and never expected this. And yes, like-minded developers really add more value to the product

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Post by obulpathi » Thu, May 07, 2020, 3:52 PM UTC

I like the varsity website: https://zerodha.com/varsity/. It has very good educational content on Stocks, Currencies, Commodities Markets, and Investing. I really like the last chapter, Innerworth: https://zerodha.com/varsity/module/innerworth/

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Post by wadkar » Thu, May 07, 2020, 4:01 PM UTC

Recently came across Zerodha and had to set it up for a friend. Really good UX, and they've done a good job maintaining with the rapid tech progression.

Also, thanks for the ERPNext.org suggestion - sometimes I wonder how many open source gems I have yet to see. (No, please don't link me to one more awesome-X list :P)

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Post by rohan1024 » Thu, May 07, 2020, 4:20 PM UTC

obulpathi wrote: post #4

I like the varsity website: https://zerodha.com/varsity/ . It has very good educational content on Stocks, Currencies, Commodities Markets, and Investing. I really like the last chapter, Innerworth: https://zerodha.com/varsity/module/innerworth/

Thanks for sharing this.

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Post by greatwhitenorth » Thu, May 07, 2020, 4:21 PM UTC

I hope all the positive replies here are from those who actually used Zerodha themselves over a period of time. When I tried it last year, the website was buggy and even saw HTML errors in response. I moved away to a traditional broker as a result of that.

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Post by xvilka » Thu, May 07, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

There is also a high-tech stock broker for Chinese/HK/US markets - FUTU[1]. No tech blog yet. They have an open[2] Python API though.

[1] https://www.futunn.com/

[2] https://github.com/FutunnOpen

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Post by formyredmi3 » Thu, May 07, 2020, 4:53 PM UTC

Was able to a full remote account opening on the platform without a single phone call or courier of any documents

Customer onboarding + KYC is a big deal in India and this just surprised me as to how seamless it has become. My earlier "demat" account had simply so many hoops to jump through. Neatly done

I loved this ```Neither large teams for the sake of “growth”, nor 10x ninja developers, are meaningful. What matters is that a group of good developers, no matter how small, are able to work well together.``` As a software developer myself , couldn't agree more. Team members who can put of fires of each other , build really resilient organizations! , in your case it shows