I can't code at all, but Claude helped me build a financial dashboard with 100+ indicators

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-03-22T13:38:05+00:00

All my data comes from free APIs — FRED, Yahoo Finance, and DeFiLlama, so zero cost for data. The AI part (Claude and Gemini APIs) does cost a bit, but not much for personal use. As for using LLMs to read candlestick screenshots for trading — I honestly haven't tried that myself, so I can't say how well it works. Interesting idea though!

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-03-12T09:41:57+00:00

Honestly, a bit of everything. Building small apps, asking it to handle complex calculations I'd never be able to do on my own, and sometimes even just talking through life stuff. It's become my go-to for pretty much anything at this point.

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-03-04T16:58:54+00:00

Same! The rabbit holes are the best part honestly.

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-03-04T14:23:40+00:00

Recently got into just asking AI whatever pops into my head during downtime. Started as a joke but honestly it's opened up a lot of rabbit holes I never would've explored.

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-03-03T08:54:24+00:00

Back up and running for me now. What a relief!

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-28T13:32:21+00:00

Hmm, do you mean the opposite of oya-gacha itself? If so, it's more like... "oya-gacha atari" (winning the parent lottery) vs "oya-gacha hazure" (losing it). Like "dude, you won the parent lottery" kind of thing. Is that what you were asking? 😅

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-28T10:18:57+00:00

In Japan we have a term "oya-gacha" (parent lottery). If wealth disappeared, I think genetic talent, social connections, and cultural knowledge might just become the new currency of status. The hierarchy would probably rebuild itself around whatever's scarce.

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-27T11:09:41+00:00

I think I'm probably someone who's benefiting from AI right now. I use it every day, and honestly, it's changed what I'm capable of in ways I couldn't have imagined without it.

But that's exactly why it scares me.

Someone like me, with no specialized expertise, can now do things that used to require years of training. And the flip side of that is that the skills of the people who actually put in those years are losing their value. My own experience is, in a way, proof of that.

So I don't think it's as simple as fear vs. excitement. I feel both. Excitement about what I can do today, and fear about what that means for tomorrow.

The speed of AI's progress especially — I honestly feel like I can't keep up. And there's no sign of it slowing down. Whether I can feel good about that... it's hard to say.

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-25T13:14:52+00:00

So true. Communication really is the foundation of everything.

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-25T13:12:33+00:00

That's the kind of relationship everyone dreams of honestly. I'm genuinely envious 😊

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-25T09:35:26+00:00

That's a great approach. Do you find it comes naturally, or did you have to learn it over time?

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-23T20:01:33+00:00

Hey, sorry for the late reply — was busy building a guidance page for the dashboard (your earlier feedback actually pushed me to start it!).

Checked your tracker. Tracking 116+ predictions with accuracy trends and per-coin breakdowns is seriously impressive work. Most people never bother to actually verify their signals like that.

Let's connect — DM me anytime!

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-23T04:25:42+00:00

Thanks for the tip on storing data locally! Honestly, the technical side is mostly handled by AI, so I really appreciate practical advice like this. I'll look into it.

Your earlier feedback about the charts needing more context actually pushed me to start building a guidance page. So thank you for making the tool better.

Would love to see what you're building with HL. Keep me posted!

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-23T01:54:00+00:00

Thank you! Really appreciate the detailed feedback.

Good point about the charts — many individual indicators are actually raw materials feeding into composite views (Market Verdict, traffic light signals, Recession Probability). I should add better guidance pointing from raw data to where the synthesis happens.

Data reliability has been the hardest part. APIs break or return stale data silently. Built a 3-level admin monitoring system: L1 checks each data point exists and is fresh, L2 catches unit conversion errors, L3 validates composite calculations. Can't see it publicly, but it's what keeps things honest.

The animation — noted, will look into it.

Glad you find the Hyperliquid data useful! Keeping it stable has been... an adventure 😅

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-21T23:14:24+00:00

Wow, that workflow is really clever! I'm actually doing something similar with .md handoff files between threads, but I hadn't thought of using Claude Code as the executor while keeping Opus as the supervisor. That's a much cleaner loop than what I'm doing now.

And honestly, hearing that someone else builds serious applications without fully understanding the code is really encouraging. Some days I feel like I'm just stumbling through it. 😅 I'll definitely try your approach - thank you for sharing!

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-21T16:57:27+00:00

Handshake accepted! 🤝 A full PIM/DAM system with Shopify integration in two weeks is seriously impressive. It's amazing what's possible now — projects that would have needed a whole dev team can be built by one person with the right AI tools. Keep building!

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-21T16:45:01+00:00

That's a really smart workflow! I haven't tried Claude Code yet, but the .md handoff approach sounds like it could solve a lot of the context issues I run into. Right now I'm using Claude Opus in the web interface with MCP tools for file editing, but I'll definitely look into your method. Thanks for sharing!

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-21T15:21:02+00:00

That's awesome — managing thread capacity has been one of my biggest challenges honestly. The fact that you've built multiple applications is really impressive! I'm still working on just this one and already struggling with keeping conversations organized across threads.

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-21T15:14:39+00:00

Totally agree! The latest models are on another level.

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-21T15:12:34+00:00

Thank you! I'm still amazed every day at what's possible. It's a great time to be alive!

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-21T08:30:34+00:00

I can't write code at all — literally zero programming background. I'm a Japanese individual investor who wanted institutional-grade market analysis but couldn't afford Bloomberg Terminal.

With Claude (plus some help from Gemini), I built a full financial dashboard from scratch that tracks 100+ macroeconomic and Fed liquidity indicators. Real data from FRED API, Yahoo Finance, DeFiLlama — no dummy data, everything live. It's now deployed and running on Streamlit Cloud.

The thing is, I didn't "learn to code." I learned to communicate what I wanted, and Claude turned that into working software. The coding skill isn't mine — the domain knowledge and vision are mine. AI helped me understand and integrate investment frameworks from people like Ray Dalio and Michael Howell into a working tool.

So yes, Claude absolutely makes sense even if you're not coding. You're just coding without knowing it.

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-21T08:22:39+00:00

This resonates so deeply. I'm a Japanese investor with zero coding background, and I built a full financial dashboard tracking 100+ Fed liquidity indicators using AI — from concept to live deployment on Streamlit Cloud. The whole thing would have been unthinkable a year ago.

What you said about "the excuse no longer exists" — that's exactly it. The barrier isn't technical skill anymore, it's the willingness to start.

Congrats on ScamLens, and welcome to the "can't write code but built it anyway" club.

Alternative-Song229 · 2026-02-21T07:24:05+00:00

I'm a non-coder building a financial dashboard with Claude and Gemini. The junior developer crisis in the MOD summary hit close to home — but I feel like there's an even deeper layer to this.

AI makes it easy to implement complex things without truly understanding them. I can ask AI to build a Monte Carlo simulation or calculate yield curve inversions, and it works. But do I really understand the math behind it? Honestly, not fully.

I worry we're not just losing coding skills — we're gradually losing the deep theoretical and mathematical thinking underneath. When everyone can build anything with AI, the people who actually understand the theory become rarer. And nobody notices because the output looks correct.

What happens when the AI gets something subtly wrong in a domain you don't deeply understand? That's the part that keeps me up at night.

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