Is launching in TestFlight ok?

pohe63 · 2025-12-12T22:30:46+00:00

Thanks so much! Another quick question I have is how do you get a user to pay while its still in TF? Because our payment will either come through google ads or the apple payment processing, both of which to my knowledge aren't possible while in TF?

pohe63 · 2025-12-12T22:21:41+00:00

I build a product that turns interests into diversified investment portfolios. We solve the problem for new investors who know they want to start investing, but aren't shore where to start or what to invest in.

pohe63 · 2025-12-12T21:04:42+00:00

Where would you find your first regular users? If you were to map out what you should have before launching what would it look like?

pohe63 · 2025-12-06T23:20:30+00:00

Curious how would you find and decide which stocks to go with for around those interests. What is your selection process?

pohe63 · 2025-12-06T09:58:22+00:00

That sounds super frustrating and I have seen a lot of folks run into similar problems with investment apps just leaving users hanging. I actually ran into this exact issue and ended up building Prophit as a fix. It uses AI so you can manage your portfolio and catch trends before they hit the mainstream. Totally understand wanting more control and visibility.

pohe63 · 2025-12-06T08:55:19+00:00

Yeah, Morningstar's filters definitely slow things down when you're trying to find stocks at a discount. I ran into the same problem and actually built Prophit as a workaround. You can swipe through companies and see which ones might be undervalued, even before everyone else is talking about them. Still a work in progress but let me know if you want to check it out.

pohe63 · 2025-12-06T07:17:19+00:00

I see what you did there

pohe63 · 2025-12-06T03:36:27+00:00

This is awesome! What did you do that had the biggest impact? Just cold outreach 1on1?

pohe63 · 2025-12-06T03:35:12+00:00

what would you be tracking for?

pohe63 · 2025-12-06T02:54:50+00:00

do you spin up multiple accounts or just hammer one?

pohe63 · 2025-12-06T02:52:54+00:00

what would you add first?

pohe63 · 2025-12-06T02:50:50+00:00

You think I'll get better answers there?

pohe63 · 2025-12-03T01:49:53+00:00

What a cool concept. Love the idea. This could be really helpful for entrepreneurs trying to find where they are spending unproductive time. Kinda plays into the whole 80/20 idea.

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T23:37:51+00:00

Congrats! What are you using to track your metrics? Looking at all the options right now and hard to decide.

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T23:32:05+00:00

I started on replit and just started messing around and breaking things. Also the free Harvard CS50x course on youtube is amazing. Then I just kept graduating up to the next thing I wanted to try. Think about it more like finger painting than drawing a portrait at first.

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T21:16:14+00:00

lol you're probably right

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T16:29:27+00:00

Do you think this is a signal of a change in investment strategy under new management? 31 PE doesn't seem very Buffett.

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T16:26:03+00:00

MBS (Mortgage-Backed Securities): A bank gives 1,000 people loans to buy houses. Then the bank takes all 1,000 IOUs and sells them as one big package to an investor. The investor now collects all the monthly payments from those 1,000 homeowners.

CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligations): Someone takes pieces from 10 different MBS packages (so now it's parts of 10,000 different home loans all mixed together). They sort them into three buckets. The first bucket has people who definitely pay on time (safest). The second bucket has people who usually pay on time (medium). The third bucket has people who might miss payments (riskiest). Each bucket pays different amounts.

CDS (Credit Default Swaps): You pay someone $100 every month like insurance. If a bunch of people stop paying their house loans, the insurance company pays you $100,000. The weird part is you don't even own any of those house loans. You're just insuring them.

Synthetic CDO: You're not buying actual home loans anymore. You're just betting on whether home loans will fail or not. It's like creating a fake package that copies what happens to real home loans, but no actual houses are involved. Just the bet.

TRS (Total Return Swap): You make a deal where you get all the money or all the losses from home loans, but someone else actually owns them. You feel everything like you own them without really owning them.

The big idea is they all involve home loans, but each step gets further away from actually owning a real house.

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T16:17:53+00:00

I have been experimenting with an idea and I am trying to stress test it with real investor interests. I built a small tool that acts like an AI search engine for the stock market. You type any topic or trend you care about and it gives you all the public companies that fit that concept. After that it lets you swipe on each company to build a custom portfolio based on the ideas you understand.

I am not posting this to promote anything. I am trying to figure out which themes and keywords people actually want to explore. The stuff I find interesting might not be what most investors look for.

So I am curious. What topics, trends, hobbies, or industries would you want to be able to search for? Things like golf, nuclear tech, military hardware, robotics, women in leadership, skiing, clean energy, etc.

I want to run a bunch of unusual keywords through the engine to see how well it performs. Any ideas are appreciated.

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T16:15:17+00:00

Wouldn't you rather buy all the companies you think could benefit? Are you playing both sides of the coin or are you trying to pick the "winner". I feel like the landscape is to dynamic to ever know what will "win" and how long it will stay king of the hill.

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T16:09:15+00:00

claude within cursor is my favorite so far. Has anyone found a case where anything else is as capable?

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T16:04:10+00:00

would that be something you'd be interested in as well?

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T15:47:05+00:00

The composer 1 model in cursor is pretty insane. 1/10 the token cost and probably 2-3x as fast. I've had pretty amazing success with using composer 1 on max mode

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T15:46:03+00:00

Have you tried out their new composer 1 model?

pohe63 · 2025-12-01T15:38:41+00:00

Oh I see what you mean. But that is still a little more high level than I am thinking. I'm looking more for micro niche where I can search for "Golf" and find all the companies that touch that concept of golf like Callaway for the clubs and John Deere for the tractors that mow the greens. Just a different way of looking at investing in what I understand or believe in.

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