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Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

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Post by rcar1046 »

pmikesell wrote: post #126
woodpanel wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Daniel, neat site and I'm really happy someone is taking this on! As the OP noted, the killer feature for me to choose GoogleFinance (GF) above all other "free equities tracking websites" [1] was its portfolio. I've just tried to see if your site addresses those pain points and it doesn't - but I think you're halfway there. What OP's "hypothetical portfolio" means is basically the tracking of a whole set of select…

I'd also like to echo that having a portfolio tracker would be for me a the killer feature. I have a mix of equities and mutual funds purchased at different times and different prices and I really just want to input the purchase dates / amounts and then have a single place to track performance. GF had this and now it's all gone. I'd pay some amount of $ per month (or year or whatever) to just have a reasonable portfo…

This is more portfolio tracking centered... https://stockdaddy.io/

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Post by captain_perl »

lozaning wrote: post #2

This title seems clickbaity to me. Didn't the author lose about 5 minutes of work they did 12 years ago, and not the effort resulting from continual work over 12 years?

"The author" is a millionaire early web pioneer whose opinion is at least as valuable as anybody else's, if not more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun

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Post by osrec »

danielaxelsen wrote: post #15

Hi - I'm the creator of https://bravos.co , a replacement for Google Finance. (I didn't have anything to do with this article being posted.) I actually left my job two months ago to work on this full-time... Google Finance used to be a "home page tab" for me and it was just killing me that I couldn't find a good alternative. Bravos.co features a clean interface for tracking public companies, cryptocurrencies, and eve…

Hi Daniel, I'm interested to know where you source your data from. Is it from freely available sources or do you but it from somewhere?

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Post by gammateam »

beaner wrote: post #19
docker_up wrote: post #4

It is mind boggling to me that both Google and Yahoo have thrown away their finance sites. It's utter garbage. And on the phone, Google Finance is even worse. They don't even use the same site or the same behavior, even though I'm pointing to the same URL. It's insane. Why would they completely disregard finance? Are they really not able to make a profitable site using ads?

What's funny to me is that so many people complain about large tech companies eating up every product category and preventing competition. But when they later kill these products, people complain all the same. Which is it? Seems like an opportunity for someone else, if it was really being relied on that much. I suspect it wasn't. The author of the article said he hadn't checked in six years. Six years! And he's compl…

people complaining that it will predictably lead to competition dying off and reliance on a product that will be abruptly killed?

and then that exact thing happens?

you're confused?

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Post by mattnewport »

cdcfa78156ae5 wrote: post #109

This is why Richard Stallman calls SaaS "Service as a Software Substitute" and recommends running your own programs on your own computers: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s... If you are using any Unix derivative there are still Free Software applications from the 1980s (or 1970s if you run BSD) that you are running every day without any problems, whether you realize it or not. Consider doi…

The big tech companies seem to be doing a good job of proving Richard Stallman right about many things over the last few years. I've always been sympathetic to the ideals of the free software movement but for many years I thought they were being a bit paranoid and extremist. Increasingly I'm coming round to the idea that they were right all along.

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Post by ant6n »

vortico wrote: post #94

Google Finance was a free site if I remember. If a consumer expects a level of service without offering a payment, any pains the consumer has are entirely their fault. If it was a paid service however, the consumer should control (via a contract or terms of use) what will happen when something goes wrong. If anything, people should thank Google for offering their service free of charge.

I am paying Google for storage. Last year my credit card went bust and Google told me via e-mail I had 7 days to provide an alternate card, when payment failed. Before that time was up, Google cancelled my subscription unilaterally. They told me it's no problem, I just have to renew the subscription, except by then the cost of the subscription had gone up 8%.

It was impossible for them to restore my previous subscription cost. As a paying consumer I expected a certain level of service, but I had not control over what was happening when something went wrong.

When paying Google, you're not better off.

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Post by BareNakedCoder »

rcar1046 wrote: post #125

I created a Google Finance replacement – https://stockdaddy.io – in my spare time. This can track your investments and returns including dividends for stocks and ETFs (real-time) and mutual funds (EOD). It’s basically a pure portfolio tracker without much of the frills of a full finance site. It's meant to be a solid performance tracker and good full screen layout to glance at throughout the day.

I get different looking 5-year charts for symbol HYG when I look on stockdaddy.io and finance.yahoo.com. Where do you get your data?

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Post by psergeant »

gboudrias wrote: post #76
tomohawk wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Repeatedly destroying trust by dropping things and breaking things for people, is a bad idea.

At this point Google projects are basically less reliable than hobby projects.

But hey, come build your company on top of GCP!

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Post by vortico »

ant6n wrote: post #136
vortico wrote: post #94

Google Finance was a free site if I remember. If a consumer expects a level of service without offering a payment, any pains the consumer has are entirely their fault. If it was a paid service however, the consumer should control (via a contract or terms of use) what will happen when something goes wrong. If anything, people should thank Google for offering their service free of charge.

I am paying Google for storage. Last year my credit card went bust and Google told me via e-mail I had 7 days to provide an alternate card, when payment failed. Before that time was up, Google cancelled my subscription unilaterally. They told me it's no problem, I just have to renew the subscription, except by then the cost of the subscription had gone up 8%. It was impossible for them to restore my previous subscrip…

Absolutely, don't use a company as large as Google for your data services. An individual customer is not a significant income source, so they care less about their customers. But there are several services out there offering paid data services that do care, because their main income source is the customers, rather than advertisement and data collection companies.

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Post by cortesoft »

pkaye wrote: post #3

That is the problem with depending on a third part service. Even if it was a company that you paid for the service, at some point they might not find it profitable and close down the service or company.

Every single person and business relies on third parties. That is the way the world works.

The key is always having a plan to replace a third party that is no longer providing the service you need.

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