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Not currently public aside from maybe a thousand testflight users, but I built a stock and crypto …

Not currently public aside from maybe a thousand testflight users, but I built a stock and crypto portfolio tracker app focused on design. I'm a designer and developer and this was my first time diving into Swift/SwiftUI. Started as a covid project to learn SwiftUI and became a 3 year side project, complete with full node backend to do some auth, caching, cleaning up data and various things. It's called Stocketa. Here's the site: https://stocketa.com/ and I opened up a few hundred Testflight spots if you want to play with it: https://testflight.apple.com/join/3dZwTVhS Unfortunately despite the insane amount of time I've spend on it (many, many weeks with 20 hours on it) I've lost interest. It's just so hard to find quality stock/financial data that allows commercial use which I'd need to put this in the app store and charge for it. I pay a few hundred a month now for data that always has issues, APIs that don't work consistently, staff that's unresponsive/rude when I tell them their API doesn't work or is wrong. …

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Not sure about anyone else, but I enjoy seeing the posts on side projects making money. Often while reading all of the comments I find new products or services I want, so I buy them and contribute further to that hustle's success. But for every hacker making $100 or more per month with their idea, there are hundreds more working hard, making nothing, struggling to get started. Does that describe you? Maybe the community just needs to hear about what you're offering, what you've been working on. If you've got something cool that has not yet gained traction, maybe it just needs to be seen by a gaggle of like-minded hackers and geeks. So share!

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Unrelated to the app your building, I've been reading your blog for a few years. Thanks for the content stammy :)

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Hi, Would you be open to some collaboration? We are developing an app for net worth tracking (Sumio.app) and bought access to APIs with stocks, ETFs, crypto, and exchange rates... We are indie developers too, our ultimate goal is to create a privacy-first mobile app for financial planning. Technically we are competitors to Stocketa, but maybe we could find a way to collaborate. Best, Lukas

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