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by vmception 1760 days ago
Somewhat agree, somewhat disagree.

There are plenty of respected sites in the finance and options space with names like this. The reason it works is because the ad space itself in this niche is so valuable.

Where I agree with you is that it would turn me off when this inevitably becomes a SaaS product, and I would be turned off by the freemium aspect, while expecting it to have some kind of annoying freemium gimmick. The dangling of "Free" in the service's name would just make me expect that more. Currently I am pleasantly surprised that it actually is free, if I had randomly come across it on Google I would be pleasantly surprised as well. In the past, Tradier API was not available and services couldn't be free because the data was so expensive.

There are other criticisms possible, but they're in other comments.

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The name just sounds scammy with the wire free in there. How about using a proper noun instead of the word free? Example: VenusOptionScanner or whatever
OptionScreenerBanana and a big yellow banana as a logo.

Replace banana with your favorite fruit.

You're welcome :D

cool name!