Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Why didn’t you launch it?

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I decided to stop working on Stocketa for a few reasons:

    Data: As mentioned above, all the expenses and challenges associated with acquiring reliable, affordable, and high-quality financial data that would make it feasible to release this as a reasonably priced subscription-based app.

    Support: The associated investment in customer support. Based on how people were using my TestFlight, it was going to be a significant investment to keep up with support, emails, maintenance, and ongoing feature development. However, part of this was likely due to complexity incurred from having to fix or skirt around unreliable data. There were lots of things I wanted to keep improving and refining with the app and that wouldn’t end any time soon.

    If I were to release and charge for Stocketa, I would feel especially on the hook to resolve issues in a timely manner and that’s not something I can accomodate now because of the next point.

    Time: And most importantly, I’ve found something more worthy of my complete focus and attention: Rewind AI. I sunk a lot of nights and weekends into Stocketa over the years. It consumed every spare moment, even taking over my occasional time writing blog posts here when I had something to share. That was something I really missed. Now, I would much rather be focusing my creative thinking time on how I can improve and grow Rewind.

    I really hate how this site fades in content as you scroll.

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    • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s the tricky part of coatly data APIs. I am converting a paid API for data I use to a free model so I don’t have to charge the users. Otherwise, they will hit my daily limit and it’ll just be a bad experience for them.

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