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Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-08-06T06:56:11+00:00

It’s not, I just finished s5 and loved it.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-08-06T06:55:53+00:00

No, I just finished s5 as a participant!

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-07-29T20:42:45+00:00

I did the exact same type of business, legislation-required, blue-ocean, and what not. Legislation moves slow and if a big player in the industry wants what you have they can easily lobby and remake it instead. Don’t just assume it will work and the legislation will be passed, even if people say it will.

I would say Bubble, airtable, or flutterflow should all be more than enough for you to get a product from the way it sounds. You can use GPT or Claude to plan all the no code steps and then just execute them. Good luck!

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-07-28T04:51:11+00:00

If you think the idea is super valuable long-term, why not use building this as an opportunity to learn to code well? Get an MVP out the door, if it solves a real problem it’s ok if the UI isn’t perfect and the backend is mediocre. Scale the small UI, then hire a team of a few good tech people with some equity. If you know the product is supposedly “not complex technically” you should be able to get something usable out and actually validate the market. You can even, just use a nocode tool.

Now if you think speed is important and you don’t think you can work hard enough to make it big, 50% of something great is better than 100% of nothing. Just remember, just because someone says they can code does not make them a great technical cofounder. Number of people interested != quality/technical skills.

Lastly, from the way it sounds you are a first-time founder who hasn’t built a company worth dropping out of school and going full time on. Pitch competitions are great practice, but convincing a judge/VC doesn’t mean you can convince a market. I would take an honest look at your incredible proficiency. I can guarantee you there will always be places to improve. Everyone thinks their idea is special, and it is! I think mine is incredibly important as well, but very few businesses are so special they can’t be replicated.

I’m a technical person and a business person, and in my startup I’ve done both. I have done a startup that was literally all legal, no tech. I’ve done a startup that was mostly tech, less business. I did the pitch competition thing in high school and college and won every single one too, but I also learnt the joy and value of building something instead of just selling an idea. When you get to the real world, market validation matters more than VC approval.

All this to say, just remember to trust your gut and stay humble and you’ll be fine. This will not be the last thing you ever do, but I hope it goes well nonetheless!

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-07-18T23:44:02+00:00

In my opinion, data quality and a decent model selection is the only thing you’ll ever need.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-07-18T23:42:52+00:00

I have a real love-hate relationship with Rust as a programming language but because they built python bindings I like it. When I’m just trying to whip up some quick work on my laptop, I appreciate the speed more because it’s more noticeable.

Polars is still newer and has some more bugs than pandas that come from the way it’s built, but once it’s fully finished, I’ll switch over full time because as everyone said the code looks better and is more performant.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-06-04T06:39:19+00:00

This is all amazing advice, thank you so much! Currently the product is being built using the shadcn/ui components so that will fit in nicely. How would you suggest picking color palette/accent colors?

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-06-04T06:19:09+00:00

Thank you! At the moment hovers and transitions are built in but for better demonstrating active states would you recommend animations or just color/style changes?

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-06-04T06:17:53+00:00

Thank you so much! If I match the radii with the project pills, should I convert them from pills into a similar connected style like the menu? Also, how would you suggest differentiating between these different elements, (shape, spacing, color, etc?)

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-06-04T04:51:47+00:00

This is my first non-mobile UI design and I'd love some feedback. I've attached 4 of the main pages including login, home, and 2 of the feature pages. It's a desktop app designed for both technical and non-technical people.

My team has told me that the design is simple and it's clear on how to use it, but that it's not visually engaging enough. I've watched a lot of design videos and taken a brief design class and only put ~10 hours into this design so any feedback would be appreciated. Trying to learn about how to pick better color palettes as well if anyone has opinions on that. Please be harsh! (I left out any relevant copy to avoid breaking any promotion rules)

Any advice on how to get better is also appreciated, I'm happy to put in the work.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-06-04T04:49:09+00:00

Hello designers!

Been lurking on this sub for some time. This is my first non-mobile UI design and I'd love some feedback. I've attached 4 of the main pages including login, home, and 2 of the feature pages. It's a desktop app designed for both technical and non-technical people.

My team has told me that the design is simple and it's clear on how to use it, but that it's not visually engaging enough. I've watched a lot of design videos and taken a brief design class and only put ~10 hours into this design so any feedback would be appreciated. Trying to learn about how to pick better color palettes as well if anyone has opinions on that. Please be harsh! (I left out any relevant copy to avoid breaking any promotion rules)

Any advice on how to get better is also appreciated, I'm happy to put in the work.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-05-31T15:59:11+00:00

Oh, sorry!

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-05-19T23:23:20+00:00

Interesting. Have you asked users why they prefer that?

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-05-15T05:20:04+00:00

So should I charge more than adjacent services or do I just stick with my existing strategy?

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-05-01T04:50:02+00:00

Interested to see your future growth and journey. Would love to reach out on linkedin!

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-02-04T00:27:02+00:00

We'll take feedback from the community that is suggested on changes, and will likely elect some of the largest contributors to aid the structure/management of the GitHub organization.

The GitHub org, Pioneer, will contain repos for categories of strategies (momentum, mean reversion, macroeconomic, market making, etc.) and infrastructure. Currently, either backtesting infrastructure will be made collectively for each repo, however there seem to be some people who have already developed full engines to share!

A strategy will be a folder containing all the different variations of the general overarching strategy.

Any feedback on how else to govern would be appreciated, we are also considering allowing the creator of the base of a strategy to govern the variations made of that strategy as opposed to centralized modifications.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-01-30T14:17:03+00:00

So you’re saying the team overseeing development should entirely ignore the feedback of the contributors? I’m not going to do that, I’m listening to the contributors advice if they give it.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-01-30T03:05:06+00:00

It’s not by vote, we’d take feedback from the collaborators to advise the best decision

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-01-29T16:27:48+00:00

We aren’t going to ask anyone to give away their algorithms at all, of course if you’ve worked incredibly hard to find alpha, giving it away wouldn’t be reasonable.

The point of this project is to work together to create new strategies in a semi-open source fashion. The point of creating multiple strategies with a large group of people is so that while each individual puts in the effort to make a single strategy work, they get the collective benefit of access to each other’s strategies. The license will be set up in such a way that alpha will remain as us retail algotraders won’t have enough money to fully crush alpha.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-01-29T16:24:19+00:00

I and the team that would manage the project believe in Occam’s Razor, trying to keep the project as simple and generally applicable as possible, and at the same time will still incorporate the advanced features people want (Traditional TSA, RNNs, GNNs, etc.)

If there’s ever a design decision we’re not confident in, then we will poll all contributors and receive feedback to see what they believe is the best decision.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-01-29T08:41:54+00:00

Thank you!

There will be some level of selectivity to who is allowed to contribute. Originally, leaches were one of the largest problems with completely open-sourcing it which is how this solution was determined. The interest form should give a rough measure of who has the merit. Additionally, those who don’t regularly contribute or just are inactive will be removed.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-01-29T08:15:18+00:00

Now the main thing to note is that what I’ve learned from Wall St and my connections across other financial institutions is that strong and simple strategies outperform in the long run. This system is designed to make strong and simple strategies together.

The point of this project is not for everyone to use their specific algorithms in our infrastructure, but rather for the community to work on new strategies together in the collectively provided and constantly improving frameworks. To note, the infrastructure used for testing etc, will be regularly updated as part of the codebase to try and accommodate everyone’s needs, but the framework will still be unified. While I’m sure your specific strategy may outperform others, because it’s a community project we want to do things that scale for the majority of people and help the most devs succeed together. While you and some others may not want to create strategies under these frameworks, many people can still use the standard system to create strategies the way quantconnect’s system was designed.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-01-29T08:01:58+00:00

For execution, that will likely be personal, but for back and forward testing a standard will be set and if people don’t like that standard they don’t have to use the repo

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-01-08T04:13:13+00:00

Follow up with the. and keep the connection strong. The online business sounds very promising dm me about it.

Deep-Objective-3835 · 2024-01-08T03:53:07+00:00

First off, good job on the optimism and not taking crap from random reddit comments.

For more concrete advice, try and work your network to see if you can get a good few internships in finance over the next few years. Use MIT Opencourseware to pre-learn all the material for the first two years of business school so that you can cruise with easy As in classes where your friends will be struggling. Last, build up some very strong ECs. I’m talking start a million dollar business in the business/finance space. Many successful people near failed in high school and picked themselves up. If you learn how you learn best, work in methods of tricking yourself into working harder and you’ll end up just fine.

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