9 ms·
Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- timtamboy63 12y agoMind shooting me an email with some info? chintan@capp.io. Might be a little slow because of the HN effect, but it seems to be working for me.
- fred_is_fred 12y agoIt just loaded, I needed more patience! I did notice that you don't seem to include dividends here? T is yielding around 5% which is pretty good excluding any capital appreciation. Are dividends included at all?
- coffeejay 12y agoWe're working on taking dividends into account since it is a huge factor when picking stocks.
- fred_is_fred 12y agoI did just get this on the ticker WIN: An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.
- thoughtpalette 12y agoIt worked for me! first search took about 30 seconds though. Awesome site!
- timtamboy63 12y agoBuying another dyno now, hopefully it can handle it :)
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- rpedela 12y agoI got a generic "Application Error" message when I searched "tsla". The website seems to be running very slowly so maybe just a timeout?
- timtamboy63 12y agoDefinitely a timeout unfortunately. We're bumping up dynos, so hopefully it'll get better!
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- codelitt 12y agoI'm getting timeout errors too. Rather than just "more dynos," on Heroku - you may want to try: - Adding caching static assets/images/etc (Not sure how this is done on Heroku but fairly straight forward with Nginx or Apache). Currently, your assets are taking a full 6 seconds to serve. - Possibly serving your static homepage etc from one server/Heroku instance and your functional app from another so you don't put the stress of traffic on a homepage on the app server as well. Edit: Adding this link to be a bit more helpful. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-caching-ruby-rails https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-caching-ruby-rail...
- davidw 12y agoI tried a mutual fund, for the heck of it. Not there. Looks kind of neat, but my guess is that it's more of a feature than a company.
- coffeejay 12y agoIt is meant for individual stocks as of now. We're hoping it serves pain points for retail investors who need some hand holding when it comes to investing smarter.
- drcode 12y agoI'm probably in the target demographic for this (small semi-serious hobby investor) and I like what I see. I'll send more detailed feedback to your site's email. (I figure you folks did the work putting this together, so you should be the first to benefit from feedback.)
- timtamboy63 12y agoThanks so much! Feel free to reach out to me directly if it's easier - chintan@capp.io
- lordlarm 12y agoMissed stocks from London Stock Exchange (LON). Anyways, cool concept. Congrats.
- timtamboy63 12y agoOnly NYSE/NASDAQ for now, but we're definitely going to be expanding out soon!
- yummyfajitas 12y agoNear as I can tell, this site is basically Google finance with a bunch of nicely color coded indicators of various components of the stock. It looks pretty, prettier than google finance. At a glance, I can easily tell whether you think I should buy or sell that stock. This is nothing but stock market info porn. All you are doing is using web design to convince me to take seriously your opinions on whether GS or TWTR is going up or down. It's the web 2.0 version of an analyst in a nice suit. It looks cool, but no reason to believe there is real substance. The fact of the matter is that if I'm actually going to be speculating on individual stocks (which I do, but mostly as a quant), I need a lot more info than this. I don't want to be entirely negative, so I'm going to suggest a tool which I think might actually be handy, and could use with some nice presentation. Ask the user a little about themselves, and then suggest stocks/ETFs they can put money in to hedge their risks. E.g., if a person works in tech, suggest to them a portfolio that is disproportionately less tech heavy - that way, if their industry tanks, their retirement won't necessarily do the same. If a person expects lots of medical care later in life, suggest them a portfolio heavy on medical stocks so that if their expenses go up, their investment does too.
- coffeejay 12y agoThanks for the feedback. We're trying to serve the less educated investor so we take basic fundamental analysis and automate it while making the insights more accessible to someone who is less financially literate. It's interesting that you bring up personalization too because we're headed in that direction with customizing reports and creating recommendations based on factors like risk profile, age, and retirement plans. We'd love to chat if you have time. You can shoot me an email at jay@capp.io
- splintercell 12y agoI think you're doing a good job, but keep in mind that good UX for an investor are metrics which helps me him make more profit. For instance if I come up with a metric which helps me make a better decision that is a good UX for me. But at the same time, a better way to interact and look at existing metrics also helps me better utilize them. To put it simply, whether some guy thinks you have a product or not, you definitely do. Its not just stock market info porn, or a fancy web design over google finance, rather its as important as a new 'indicator', i.e. it does(could) have the right substance.
- cornflake 12y agoIt'd be interesting to know how much you are paying for your data. If you're doing things legally, balance sheet data and exchange licensing for stuff like this costs 10's of thousands of dollars a year.
- coffeejay 12y agoWe're pulling as much free data as we can but have plans to transition onto a paid data source as soon as we can.
- cornflake 12y agoOh hey, that's awesome, I was under the impression there wasn't any free data sources available. This would make FinTech way more accessible for startups. Which ones do you use?
- timtamboy63 12y agoShoot me an email at chintan@capp.io and I can go into more detail :)
- otoburb 12y agoQuandl[1] is one such resource of free stock data. [1] Quandl.com
- drglitch 12y agoQuandl is great but be sure to truly understand their ToS correctly - they pull a lot of their data from sources that forfeit (or dont explicitly allow) public/for profit redistribution
- UXDork 12y agoDo you guys have an API for queries?
- timtamboy63 12y agoWe've actually been considering making it available for others to use. Shoot me an email chintan@capp.io.
- davesque 12y agoI'm getting 500s on the query page. Getting too much traffic maybe?
- timtamboy63 12y agoYep, too much traffic. Fixing now, let me know if it works!
- dataminer 12y agoWhere are you sourcing the data from?
- timtamboy63 12y agoDifferent places right now. MorningStar, FinViz, etc. Transitioning onto paid data asap.
- andrea_s 12y agoPlease note that "cappio" means "loop" (as in, for hanging people) in Italian. Not sure if it's deliberate, but perhaps it's good for you to know :)
- timtamboy63 12y agoWe somehow didn't find that out until we'd already built everything out. Considered a re-brand, but we figured we'd go with it :)
- andrea_s 12y agoIt's not so bad after all. http://codio.com http://codio.com, on the other hand... ;)
- encoderer 12y agoAbove all, congrats on shipping. The problem I have is, you may have built a better mouse trap here, but for the last 20 years the retail investor -- your customer -- has been the mouse. And few people in your industry acknowledge that. The stock market has a built-in upward bias of 3-5 percent. It represents the premium over the risk free rate that entices people to invest in equity instead of debt (bonds, treasuries). So retail investors don't "lose" money but they have underperformed the market to a extent that is IMO criminal. Literally. All of the education, services and tools (like yours) are teaching investing all wrong. Price targets? Made up numbers by analysts? What were the price targets on Netflix before it fell 100 handles (and then clawed half of it back)? The day before the drop CNBC said $600/share. How about GTAT? Jim Cramer loved that stock. There are some people doing it right, though. Check out TastyTrade.com. These guys have made a massive investment in teaching the retail investor techniques for investing that don't rely on the magic of technical analysis or analyst prophecy. And even more awesome -- they built a trading platform that is free to use and provides tooling to support their principles, which are basically: do many small, high probability trades to give yourself many independent occurrences to smooth statistical variance, and let duration work for you. The platform is Dough.com I'm obviously not affiliated, just a fan. And I don't mean to take away anything from what you've built. But I think we're just doing it wrong and i want to see that changed.
- timtamboy63 12y agoTotally see what you're saying, and we definitely want to get into the educational aspect at some point. But Netflix fell because of earnings, and GTAT was a fundamentally horrible company (our site wouldn't have recommended it). From what we've seen, retail investors tend to lose money when they invest with their gut, and that's the biggest issue. They hear some news and go and buy that company. They don't know how to do the fundamental analysis, and look at income statements, etc - that's what we're really trying to solve. I agree with not really trusting the analyst target price - we were actually debating whether to keep that there or not, but I disagree that technical analysis can't give you good, long term picks along with a little research. I'd love to hear more about your thoughts. Think you could shoot me an email at chintan@capp.io?
- palakchokshi 12y agoI get an error when I try it using BAC http://www.capp.io/queries/new?query=bac&button= http://www.capp.io/queries/new?query=bac&button=
- timtamboy63 12y agoDealing with some traffic issues right now. Should work now.
- dschiptsov 12y agoNobody knows if a stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles. You know what a Fugazi is? Sorry, I can't resist.)
- coffeejay 12y agohaha love the reference :)
- UXDork 12y agoGuys, this is awesome. Just wanted to say thank you. This is definitely very useful to me!
- coffeejay 12y agoThanks for the kind words! Glad you find it useful. Shoot me an email at jay@capp.io if you ever have more feedback.
- mandeepj 12y agoIt looks neat. Great job. For market sentiment you are just showing tweets. How about if you just show if market sentiment is +ve or -ve? I think you are taking only fundamental analysis into account to suggest buy or sell otherwise you would not suggest GPRO as a buy.
- coffeejay 12y agoThanks! Yes, definitely, right now it is just opinions but we do want to analyze for actual sentiment (bullish vs bearish).
- oomkiller 12y agoHave you run your %w[Buy Sell Hold] indicators over historical data to see how accurate your suggestions are? It would be really nice to offer this feature for transparency and to keep yourselves honest. It could also improve your product and help users to better understand when you make errors. Does your app do sentiment analysis on tweets? That would be insanely cool if you get it right.
- ankurpatel 12y agoGood job on shipping. I can tell you have made this site in Rails just by looking at the 404.html page http://www.capp.io/404.html http://www.capp.io/404.html which people usually forget to change form the standard rails template. Can you tell us what is the hardware configuration you are running on as it is holding up well considering a lot of people are trying it out from Hacker News.
- eastbayjake 12y agoI haven't seen anyone else commenting in the last few hours, but the site has been mostly down for me since 11 AM Pacific. I was able to do my first few test queries and sign up for an account, but it has been unavailable since.
- frenchhugger 12y agobeautiful boys
- frenchhugger 12y agobeautiful boys