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

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Could you sell it as desktop software with replacable plug-in data feeds for each source of information?

Possibly - I'm curious what you had in mind? Could you tell me any more about the use case?

I don't want to sign up for any more web apps or web only services. They keep shutting down

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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…

I was worried Google Wave would take over the CRM industry.

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

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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?

It’s because the mobile free alternatives are so much better.

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

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In terms of actually understanding how a hypothetical portfolio would have performed, something that is much more meaningful then the overall ROI provided by Google Finance is the concept of the annualised return. We built our portfolio functionality with this in mind to empower investors to understand their true returns, respective of time. It often amazes users here at Australia's #1 stockmarket app, disclosure: I…

Why do you consider annualized return more meaningful than alpha or Sharpe ratio?

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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…

I'm not sure how the "Top News" section is curated, but along with financial news I see:

- "'No hablo Ingles!' Video shows Taco Bell employee in Hialeah denying service - Local10.com"

- "Guac fans, rejoice! Chipotle is now selling large sides of guacamole"

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

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I would love to know internal story behind the disaster that Google Finance has become. I'm not against new designs and evolving but the new website misses out on one simple thing: People using this site loves numbers, they want numbers! "Minimal & dumbed down" doesn't work with investor types. My guess is that they got new VP and the moron decided to wield his steve-jobs-me-too minimal everything stick. The guy has to be wearing turtleneck every day in the office and probably got big bonus for driving this trainwreck to its conclusion.

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

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post #67

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Appears it's using IEX's API which is awesome and free. https://iextrading.com/developer/

Yeah, IEX is helpful for many of the stocks, and we use a few other APIs to supplement.

what stack did you use to build bravos?

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

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

Funny thing is, people are lining up to do just that. I think that's a symptom of an industry where following the hype is more important than long term stability.

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

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Does Gmail show ads? I had the impression that was not the case now.

I just got one in the inbox list for Nokia (by a reseller) - not an email: clicking it takes you to an advertisement. Edit: I have noticed adverts depend on how your access Google e.g. I found the iOS YouTube app way worse than the website in the browser.

This is likely based on how captive of an audience they believe they have at the moment.
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