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Show HN: Stock Chart + Reddit-clone = facts in context

8 points by topsteplocal 3y ago

topsteplocal 3y ago
Here is a product video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5fGsfWu4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5fGsfWu4w Please support us on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fnchart https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fnchart We are a team of 5 (4 coders and 1 graphics designer). This has been an absolute labour of love for all of us on the project. We have always believed that most people completely miss the context behind movement of stock prices. We wanted to build this platform to not only put stock price movement in context, but also to provide far richer depth of information. We also hope that financial journalists take advantage of our platform to discover story ideas, and to be able to use our direct messaging to reach out to experts directly, to get further details on a possible lead. In the future we will also allow users to see levels of engagement on various posts, so a journalist can get a sense of how popular a topic is before committing to write a full story on it.
- topsteplocal 3y ago
  Stocktwits is to twitter what fnchart is to Reddit. Stock twits is basically: Stock Chart + Twitter. fnchart is basically: Stock Chart + Reddit. We then build on top of that a whole new way to navigate historical posts, so that you can actually look and interact with a stock chart by pulling up news & discussion from any time in the history of the stock. Here's a scenario: You're interested in stock AAA, but you notice on the chart that it fell 30% 2 years ago, and hasn't begun recovering yet. But today you read that they are embarking on a big turn around plan. So you click on the time period on the chart 2 years ago to find out what the cause of the drop was. You find out it was a critical supplier that went bankrupt, and they have only now found a replacement. Now you can decide whether to buy their stock or not, and you are informed about the context.
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TooSmugToFail 3y ago
Interesting! What’s the business model?
- topsteplocal 3y ago
  There are two routes: 1. Tried and true: advertising, selling live data feeds, and premium chart features. 2. Innovative, but still familiar: We are continually looking to build on our Sentiment Discovery Dashboard, and give users premium analytics access into what the trends are in the market. The goal is to add LLM that would train on our massive amounts of user discussion, that would then feed into even better Sentiment Discovery, thereby creating a self-feeding improvement cycle.
obaenninger 3y ago
Awesome idea for an app, and am confident that with all the tweaking & TLC FNcharts has received, it is poised to be an exceptional product.
- topsteplocal 3y ago
  We have definitely got a lot of tweaking and TLC left to do... our issue tracker is up to 150 issues as of today ;-P We love every second, and if we can attract others who share our values and vision, then our toiling will be so worth it :-D We have a chance to change how people consume financial information, and therefore the financial literacy of our society!
RyryNibblets 3y ago
Totes cool!
- topsteplocal 3y ago
  Thanks !
topsteplocal 3y ago
fnchart is basically: Stock Chart + Reddit == facts + context. We then build on top of that a whole new way to navigate historical posts, so that you can actually look and interact with a stock chart by pulling up news & discussion from any time in the history of the stock. Here's a scenario: You're interested in stock AAA, but you notice on the chart that it fell 30% 2 years ago, and hasn't begun recovering yet. But today you read that they are embarking on a big turn around plan. So you click on the time period on the chart 2 years ago to find out what the cause of the drop was. You find out it was a critical supplier that went bankrupt, and they have only now found a replacement. Now you can decide whether to buy their stock or not, and you are informed about the context.
martinpiche 3y ago
Absolutely,Bitcoin related sources are excellent1

8 points by topsteplocal 3y ago

Here is a product video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5fGsfWu4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5fGsfWu4w Please support us on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fnchart https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fnchart We are a team of 5 (4 coders and 1 graphics designer). This has been an absolute labour of love for all of us on the project. We have always believed that most people completely miss the context behind movement of stock prices. We wanted to build this platform to not only put stock price movement in context, but also to provide far richer depth of information. We also hope that financial journalists take advantage of our platform to discover story ideas, and to be able to use our direct messaging to reach out to experts directly, to get further details on a possible lead. In the future we will also allow users to see levels of engagement on various posts, so a journalist can get a sense of how popular a topic is before committing to write a full story on it.

topsteplocal 3y ago
Stocktwits is to twitter what fnchart is to Reddit. Stock twits is basically: Stock Chart + Twitter. fnchart is basically: Stock Chart + Reddit. We then build on top of that a whole new way to navigate historical posts, so that you can actually look and interact with a stock chart by pulling up news & discussion from any time in the history of the stock. Here's a scenario: You're interested in stock AAA, but you notice on the chart that it fell 30% 2 years ago, and hasn't begun recovering yet. But today you read that they are embarking on a big turn around plan. So you click on the time period on the chart 2 years ago to find out what the cause of the drop was. You find out it was a critical supplier that went bankrupt, and they have only now found a replacement. Now you can decide whether to buy their stock or not, and you are informed about the context.

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TooSmugToFail 3y ago

Interesting! What’s the business model?

topsteplocal 3y ago
There are two routes: 1. Tried and true: advertising, selling live data feeds, and premium chart features. 2. Innovative, but still familiar: We are continually looking to build on our Sentiment Discovery Dashboard, and give users premium analytics access into what the trends are in the market. The goal is to add LLM that would train on our massive amounts of user discussion, that would then feed into even better Sentiment Discovery, thereby creating a self-feeding improvement cycle.

obaenninger 3y ago

Awesome idea for an app, and am confident that with all the tweaking & TLC FNcharts has received, it is poised to be an exceptional product.

topsteplocal 3y ago
We have definitely got a lot of tweaking and TLC left to do... our issue tracker is up to 150 issues as of today ;-P We love every second, and if we can attract others who share our values and vision, then our toiling will be so worth it :-D We have a chance to change how people consume financial information, and therefore the financial literacy of our society!

RyryNibblets 3y ago

Totes cool!

topsteplocal 3y ago
Thanks !

topsteplocal 3y ago

fnchart is basically: Stock Chart + Reddit == facts + context. We then build on top of that a whole new way to navigate historical posts, so that you can actually look and interact with a stock chart by pulling up news & discussion from any time in the history of the stock. Here's a scenario: You're interested in stock AAA, but you notice on the chart that it fell 30% 2 years ago, and hasn't begun recovering yet. But today you read that they are embarking on a big turn around plan. So you click on the time period on the chart 2 years ago to find out what the cause of the drop was. You find out it was a critical supplier that went bankrupt, and they have only now found a replacement. Now you can decide whether to buy their stock or not, and you are informed about the context.

martinpiche 3y ago

Absolutely,Bitcoin related sources are excellent1