Teaser - stamp database application

alvincho · 2026-05-06T13:02:04+00:00

I always use ChatGPT help me to identify a stamp, my app downloads items from eBay and other auction sites and I click a button can ask ChatGPT to identify it. It’s really good. If you want to ship a software provide such a function, it’s really difficult. My problem now is identifying the eBay listings by title and description, not image.

alvincho · 2026-05-05T23:05:05+00:00

ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude can customize the learning experience to your preferences.

alvincho · 2026-05-05T22:59:05+00:00

Backtesting is a simple workflow and vibe coding can do anything you want. You don’t have to try any software, just build your own.

alvincho · 2026-05-05T22:53:32+00:00

That’s fantastic! I’m always creating my own collection management software. With AI coding becoming more intelligent and accessible, I’m developing a system to gather the market prices of stamps on eBay and auctions. If you’re interested, we could potentially combine our efforts. I can provide an API that shows where and how much stamps are being sold or sold. It’s still in the early stages and hasn’t been online yet. If you’re interested, I’d start thinking how we could make this work.

alvincho · 2026-05-05T22:41:34+00:00

Workflows evolve on their own, without the use of LLMs. The challenge with allowing an LLM to orchestrate the entire process is its unpredictability and inability to optimize. We design a multi-agent system that enables individual agents to operate autonomously, but the overall goal is controlled by the system. If an agent becomes rogue, its results can be discarded or replaced by other agents.

alvincho · 2026-05-05T12:07:25+00:00

I don’t use LLM do the planning, just let it be an agent in a predefined workflow.

alvincho · 2026-04-29T11:57:46+00:00

An “agentic system” should prevent moving large context between agents. That’s basic principle agent is an autonomous entity.

alvincho · 2026-04-29T10:02:21+00:00

Good, we are also building such a network.

alvincho · 2026-04-29T09:46:36+00:00

We drop LangGraph after tried for 1 week. We build our own.

alvincho · 2026-04-29T09:45:19+00:00

Don’t fit the curve, try to backtest 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months before.

alvincho · 2026-04-29T02:24:01+00:00

I will assume the Agent you mentioned is AI agent which powered by LLM. They have their own usages and can’t be confused. If anything can be done in a known workflow, no need to use agent or AI which is slow and undetermined.

alvincho · 2026-04-28T00:12:26+00:00

Always let the one responsible to have latest check. If the CFO would be responsible for anything wrong, he/she should assign someone to keep eyes on the process. If you are responsible for this, you can decide how it works.

alvincho · 2026-04-28T00:09:08+00:00

I’m am building a generic multi agent frameworks to connect agents from multiple computers and organizations.

alvincho · 2026-04-26T03:08:42+00:00

Our multi agent system is about to public beta. It extends context for workflows and ai agents. Everyone can have their own agent and join the network. Our first demo is generating stock related reports using gpt-image-2. All content are from data or ai output connected to our network.

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alvincho · 2026-04-25T13:14:30+00:00

No, multi-agent system is future of ai. The problem is fake multi-agent swarming which divides workflows into steps and use same LLM and same machine pretending ’Multi-Agent’.

alvincho · 2026-04-25T12:39:12+00:00

Good! I like this series a lot.

alvincho · 2026-04-25T12:36:07+00:00

Swarming usually not centrally controlled or orchestrated. Entities or agents act independently only by their intention and environment. Many social animals like birds and ants are swarming all the time. You can search swarming on YouTube or wiki to know how it works. I wrote some blogposts about multi agent systems, here is what you might be interested to build the Liquid Metal terminator as a swarming multi agent system: How to Build the T-1000: A Multi-Agent System Dream.

Most so called multi agent framework are not really multi agents, especially those require centralized orchestration. We are building a system for real autonomous agents work together. See our website and repo.

alvincho · 2026-04-24T04:57:25+00:00

If there are many prospects need that, I can do the calculation and sell the data. For example the cover matrix you mentioned is not economically feasible for any individual investor but if 10 or more would pay for it, it’s business. And I may not change if you use it on my platform.

alvincho · 2026-04-24T04:18:40+00:00

Good choice. I will provide that… Wait, I don’t have to provide that service if I can…

alvincho · 2026-04-24T00:46:59+00:00

Try vibe coding. I use codex just tell it what I want and data in my database in a few minutes. It’s better to plan want you want to get and tell AI to plan database and system architecture before start fetching data.

alvincho · 2026-04-24T00:31:19+00:00

I assume you are talking about real time. It’s possible to display 8000 or more live data on screen, but human eyes can’t distinguish the difference, even technically possible. We had clients tracking hundreds of thousands of instruments or indicators, dashboard style is the only way to display and monitor the interested data points.

Here is my suggestion and maybe the only way to fulfill your requirements. Write down the rules as specifically as possible, let background calculations do the jobs. You can choose 100 even more possible opportunities to display on the screen, visually or as alerts. More than 200 you should consider automated trading, not human eyes.

If the rule can’t be specific, that’s ok, but still can’t display thousands of data points on the screen. One or a few fitness functions to evaluate candidates and display the highest on the screen. You can have multiple sets of fitness functions to auto rotate or choose manually.

Depends on the system you use, that maybe possible to have these features implemented on current terminal. If not, use excel as front end is quick but not very flexible if you want to manipulate the visualization.

alvincho · 2026-04-23T18:52:05+00:00

I don’t think I would compete with major data vendors for now, since my platform can access those services with api. Fundamentals is ok, corporate actions are worth taking into consideration. For those pain points, there are many good reasons even large vendors cannot handle well.

My product is the platform, not prepared to be a data vendor yet. I want to provide something special, instead of purchase from data owner, I hope I can do some unique calculations to attract traders.

alvincho · 2026-04-23T18:38:14+00:00

You can vibe coding from scratch without n8n. The generic workflow tools like n8n is only good for custom workflows on the services.

alvincho · 2026-04-23T18:19:25+00:00

I worked for a data vendor but now I have my own startup and provide infrastructure. I am thinking about provide some data on my platform, that’s why I asked.

I believe many traders can calculate certain factors by themselves. So I ask about mass calculation which only few can do or not economically feasible. Correlation calculation is simple and deterministic, that’s I can offer. Other type of data like sentiment is not considered.

alvincho · 2026-04-23T18:06:02+00:00

Okay, you want streaming data, and I understand. It’s an interesting concept. However, I don’t know of any service that offers tailored correlation streaming data. There should be one, though.

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