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How HN took it
6 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Execution: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 3 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean simple design and modern vanilla JS code
From 4 comments
This is great. I love the simple, succinct interface — I wish real financial companies like my trading account and my bank had even half this much sense when it comes to…
brandur on HNI'm not into stocks, but like the way you coded it. We don't see this sort of good examples that combines the old school simplicity and new JS / DOM API features.
roadbeats on HNReally cool! I love simple solutions like this.
mikeokner on HNOne thing I've taken away from this is vanilla Javascript seems to have come a long way, or I've just never taken the time to fully appreciate all the features For example I…
djhworld on HN
Batch requests and handling of over 100 symbols
From 1 comment
This is great. I love the simple, succinct interface — I wish real financial companies like my trading account and my bank had even half this much sense when it comes to…
brandur on HN
Objections
Does not support portfolio holdings like Google Finance did
From 1 comment
hmm, while this is cool i am not sure if it is a full-fledged replacement for the Google Finance "portfolios" feature. That lets you add the number of stocks you own for each…
vigneshv_psg on HN
Calling it static is confusing when it uses JavaScript
From 2 comments
What makes this a "static page"? It's all non-interactive javascript.
janvidar on HNBut if a website uses JavaScript, how can you say it is static? IMHO, static is only Html+css...
IloveHN84 on HN
Requests
Support portfolio tracking with share counts
From 2 comments
hmm, while this is cool i am not sure if it is a full-fledged replacement for the Google Finance "portfolios" feature. That lets you add the number of stocks you own for each…
vigneshv_psg on HNI'm no JS expert by any stretch but it seems pretty simple to add in code for that here. It'd be a chore to hard-code a big portfolio or one that trades frequently, though.
mark212 on HN
Encode portfolios in URL hash or query
From 1 comment
Very cool! As everything is done client side how about adding some parsing of the URL #hash/?query to encode data of a portfolio? That way you could have a single statically…
koolba on HN
Usable from LibreOffice Calc or CSV export
From 2 comments
I would like to find something like this that is usable by Libreoffice Calc.
craftyguy on HNIt looks like a simple html table, I think LibreOffice might be able to parse that. Else, it should be relatively trivial to change the output to e.g. csv which can be imported.…
Cthulhu_ on HN
Questions
What makes this a static page
From 1 comment
What makes this a "static page"? It's all non-interactive javascript.
janvidar on HN
Whether IEX can handle traffic from HN
From 1 comment
The demo site is cool, wonder if IEX will appreciate the thundering herd from HN though?
djhworld on HN
Alternatives named
Google Finance
From 2 comments
I had not realized Google killed Google Finance until this post -- the search replacement is abysmal.
mmanfrin on HNhmm, while this is cool i am not sure if it is a full-fledged replacement for the Google Finance "portfolios" feature. That lets you add the number of stocks you own for each…
vigneshv_psg on HN
Robinhood quotes API
From 1 comment
There's definitely something I can learn from this. By the way, Robinhood API also gives you quotes for free https://api.robinhood.com/quotes/?symbols=AMD,TSLA
dxxvi on HN
Google Sheets GOOGLEFINANCE function
From 1 comment
hmm, while this is cool i am not sure if it is a full-fledged replacement for the Google Finance "portfolios" feature. That lets you add the number of stocks you own for each…
vigneshv_psg on HN