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Show HN: Trade – A mobile web app for trading stocks with virtual currency

9 points by mashlol 12y ago

grimtrigger 12y ago
Why is it only mobile?
- mashlol 12y ago
  I may add a web interface later, this was mostly a project I started to try to make a decent web app for mobile.
rahilsondhi 12y ago
It looks really nice. Can you talk about the technologies you used to build it?
- mashlol 12y ago
  Sure. The front-end is just plain old html/js/css. The back-end is Node.js, there's only two endpoints, one is searching for stocks, the other is for serving the index file. I also use the yahoo finance API to get stock prices.
iancarroll 12y ago
Do the prices change? This looks cool. Also, are you going to open source it?
- mashlol 12y ago
  The prices should update as they change in the real markets - it uses Yahoo Finance API for this. It's also already open source: https://github.com/mashlol/trade https://github.com/mashlol/trade
  - iancarroll 12y ago
    You should use Yahoo data as a seed and then modify it so the user can see results (however fake) faster (or make it a togglable option)
duiker101 12y ago
very well done! love the UI! very responsive, has a very good native feel to it. well done!