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by rezistik 1739 days ago
I can only add 4 holdings to my watchlist, 2 to my portfolio. There's also like 5 CTAs to upgrade my account on my home page.

I'm invested because I like the hn community but if I found this app on reddit or from a google search the second I saw the limitations on holdings and watch list I'd totally dip.

The app is screaming at me to spend 10 bucks and part of me wants to, I think the sentiment analysis integration could be valuable but I can't hear my own thoughts over the big orange buttons demanding my money...

Let people fill out their portfolios and watch lists, if there is a timed trial let them use the services, maybe they scroll through the curated news and the tweets, the sentiment analysis, they throw some money at a ticker and come up a few percent and decide it's worth 10 bucks a month to do it again.

Like what is the time limit for? There is a time limit and a feature limit? Choose one?

I don't care that much about being able to modify the colors on my table, I kind of like it but like green and red are great if you're not color blind, and if you are just put a little toggle in another tab instead of taking up half of my screen with these little hue shifters.

The market performance tab is kind of cool but I have to drop my mouse at the far edges to scroll or I'm scrolling the inner tables, might work better as a tabbed interface to swap between but I don't feel strongly about this part.

As it stands I'm just going back to the other 15 tools that do this. Sorry not trying to be harsh, I'm just a very active consumer of these tools.

1 comments

I appreciate the feedback, it does help hearing different perspectives.

I think you're right about the watchlist/portfolio limits. The CTAs over blurred cards are more to hide premium data, but I'll re-think that.

I agree that market performance needs some improvement, and tabs might be the way to go. I'll test and see how I feel about it.

Thanks again for the feedback, I really do appreciate it!